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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1909
Page
4
The advertisement offers constant telephone access for urgent service and promises endless variety of toilet articles with a warrant of the best quality. It emphasizes readiness to assist and ease of obtaining items through a phone call.
The Dairy section of the Iowa Experiment Station led by Professor F W Bouska tested starters to control ripening cream and butter flavor through bacteria. Bulletin No 103 details which starters are best and whether using them pays, available from Director C Curtiss Ames Iowa.
Many people object to strong medicines for rheumatism and prefer external treatment. If there is no fever or swelling, apply Chamberlains Liniment for quick relief. It costs 25 cents for a small bottle and 50 cents for a large one, sold by F. L. Stolte and Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Ottumwa Iowa April 21 Judge Morrissey Laurence Michael Burke Morrissey youngest judge in the United States at just past twenty three wins election by six hundred six votes. Born Searsboro Iowa 1885, he moved to Ottumwa at age two and graduated from Ottumwa High School in 1904 and the University of Iowa Law School in 1908. He played basketball football and acted in university dramatic and literary societies. He is junior partner in the Ramsell and Morrissey law firm.
A Mason City story reports Mrs. Eli nore Torgerson Beckwith, once of Albert Lea, married her stepson Harry G. Beckwith of Chicago. The union followed a long crossGenerational romance begun when she was young and his father’s wife. Harry, a Cornell student and architecture student, married his stepmother after her European sojourn.
The American missionaries at Mer sina include Rev. C A Dodds and wife Rev Robert E Wilson and wife both from Morning Sun Iowa Dr John Peoples of Philadelphia and Miss Elma French of Winchester Kan They reside in the building of the boys and girls school run by the foreign missionary board of the Reformed Presbyterian church Miss French teaches there The school has about 250 Armenian pupils and many attend.
Fourteen year old Cecelia O Hearn daughter of W J O Hearn living five miles southwest of Fort Dodge was struck and killed by a bolt of lightning while calling her brother from the field. Seven young cattle and a colt died and a barn burned on the G W Lennon farm four miles from Clare. Firemen responded by telephone. the storm caused no other serious damage.
George Meredith, praising Algernon Swinburne, recalls a meeting on a heath where Swinburne read Fitzgerald’s Omar Khayyam and then composed thirteen stanzas of Lanus Veneris in an hour. Meredith calls Swinburne a peer among English literary nobility and a true poet.
Galveston dispatch reports James W. Oman claiming a straight up lift for four years of experiments. Three model sizes rose 50 to 100 feet witnessed by army officers in San Antonio. The craft, to be shown at Fort Sam Houston within two months, supposedly climbs without incline, track, or automotive power.
The Pennsylvania railroad has established signal schools on divisions east of Pittsburgh to train men for the signal service. With 12,408 signals over 2,385 miles, six signal apprentices will undergo a three year course. The program covers mechanical work first, then office supervision, then outside work on electric and electro pneumatic appliances.
A Waynesburg report says Dr. Joseph D. Chaney and John H. Ross have trained a four year old Durham bull to trot and challenge any 2:30 horse for a large stake. They claim the animal can trot a half mile to sulky in 1:22 and the mile in under 2:30. The bull was spotted trotting in Maryland when one year old and later bought by Dr. Chaney.
In Grand Rapids Michigan mail boxes are fixed to trolley cars to collect letters. People on street corners place letters in the box and the car stops to deliver mail directly to the trolley terminal where carriers transfer it to the main post office.
Dennis Ricard of Emmetsburg, born 1798 in Howth Head Ireland, celebrated his 111th birthday on March 8. A temperance man who never married, he lives healthily with self care and has a long career as a sailor who survived a Russian shipwreck. He recalls meeting Abraham Lincoln and remains robust and cheerful in 1929.
If you have backache and urinary troubles you should take Foley's Kidney Remedy to strengthen and build up the kidneys so they will act properly, as a serious kidney trouble may develop. Lemmon's Pharmacy, McElhinney Drug Co.
Edward E Strickley of Fort Wayne Indiana has been in the city for two weeks and was a passenger to Fairfield this morning.
Local brief items list a trade advertisement for The Fair with prices 55-31 and 55-36, mentions J. M. Wilson as Burlington passenger, notes A J Dawson in Canada overseeing Washington Canadian Land Co interests, Mr and Mrs Will Wilson traveling to Davenport, and J A Carden leaving for Osage Iowa. Eastbound Rock Island No 62 was late, arriving about 9:30 after a 4:42 a.m. schedule.
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