Zona comic opera delights Crawfordsville crowds
The Columbian opera house hosted an amateur company from the city in Zona. Clyde Robbins as Puck drew praise for his performance while Grace Robbins Grace Harper Etna Twinam Lila Vesey Grace Peabody and Ida Paisley also starred. Music by the Crawfordsville orchestra pleased a large audience. A repeat performance was planned for this evening with potential showings in Ainsworth on Tuesday.
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Crawfordsville
Zona
Columbian Opera House
Bucklen's Amnica Salve Wins Trust of All Salves
Advertising copy touts Bucklen's Amnica Salve as the best for Burns, Sores, Bruises, Cats, Boils, Ulcers, Skin Eruptions and Piles. Sold by Stewart, Druggist. price two cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
Stewart
Kansans Eye Eastern Kansas Land Investments
Washington men of good judgment invest in eastern Kansas land with L. D. Higgins. Improvid land costs 25 to 40 per acre, demand rising, and values may double soon. A large May trip is planned, with Rock Island offering a $10 round trip to Ft. Scott for land seekers. Higgins will lead excursions for Gunn agency to desirable areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kansas
L. D. Higgins
Rock Island
Ft. Scott
Gunn Agency
Beware of Mercury in Catarrh Ointments Warns Public
Public health warning against mercury containing catarrh ointments urges prescriptions from reputable physicians. It cites Tlali's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and active on blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure promoted with testimonials and Druggists selling Hall's Family Pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tlali
F. J. Cheney & Co
Loledo
Hall
Toledo
Ohio
F. Jd. Cheney & Co
Stockholders Meeting Called for Commercial Club
The Commercial Club calls a general stockholders meeting for Tuesday evening the 28th at the Fire Hall. Full attendance is desired for important business. F. L. Wilson, President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. L. Wilson
Pres
Maloney's Wedding Echoes With Farcical Night
Mr. Maloney celebrated a large wedding crowd in Graham with a farce style performance. The entertainment delivered much amusement and reflected the high standard of the plays.
Westchester News Roundup of Local People and Visits
Special Telephone and Rural Route News Service Items of Interest to All report local family news. Mr and Mrs Chas Skipton welcome a daughter. Aunt Martha English recovering from fines. DD Smyton travels to Oskaloosa on business. Grandma Watson returns from Washington visiting Mrs Hirram Baker. Miss Etta Fishburn returns from Chapman Nebr to home. Mrs Samuel Cocklin visits sister Mrs W A Harper in Washington. Charles and Emma Buxbaum visit brother J F Buxbaum. Mrs John S McCleery among the sick. Miss Artie McCulley of Washington leaves Maxwell home for a Winfield visit. Mrs M L D Yard hosts friends in Washington. Editor A R Miller and wife attend home talent play at the Columbian. Alex once starred on local stage, noted for changes since boyhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra
Chas
Skipton
Martha English
Smyton
Oskaloosa
Grandma Watson
Washington
Hirram Baker
Etta Fishburn
Chapman
Nebr
Samuel Cocklin
W. A. Harper
Charles
Emma Buxbaum
Grace Hill
J. F. Buxbaum
John
McCleery
Artie McCulley
Maxwell
Winfield
Local Social and Service Notes Include Nuptials and Quilting Party
April highlights include the Yansky Shalla nuptials and Mrs. Dunlap Mellree hosting a quilting party. Durst to assist road crews in English River Two as Ira Wells accompanies mail-carrier Kirkpatrick on Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durst
English River Two
Dunlap Mellree
Frank Schnoebelen
Ira Wells
Kirkpatrick
Sheriff Teeter In Sheriff Sale Auction At City Court House
Sheriff Teeter conducted an afternoon sale in front of the courthouse with about fifty bidders. Properties sold included Thomas Crote 20 acres for 7 dollars and Frank Malone residence for 755.80 to Patrick Burns. Ralph Smith and Elmer Wells bought adjacent lots and homes on West Main and East Jefferson streets. A fourth parcel of four lots near Joe Purviss was postponed due to incomplete appraisal.
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Sherrff Teeter
Court House
Thomas Crote
Sherm Crone
Frank Malone
First Ward
Patrick Burns
Sheriff Teeter
Rose Moreland
Ralph Smith
West Main Street
Girambling
Elmer Wells
East Jefferson Street
Joe Purviss
Bridegiver Finds Cure for Wife, Pills Sell at Stewart’s Drug
M. M. Austin of Winchester Indiana credited Dr King New Life Pills with immediate relief and a cure for his wife's stomach and liver trouble after physicians failed. Pills priced 250. Local notices mention hair care products, local election results, engraving work, and a federal court case Jesse Philips et al versus C M St P R R remand denied at Keokuk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. M. Austin
Winchester
Ind
Dr. King
Stewart's Drug Store
Jesse Philips Et al
Keokuk
District Court
Cough Remedy Promoted as Preventive of Pneumonia
Advertised claim extols Chamberlains Cough Remedy as preventing pneumonia from colds and grip and faster than other treatments. It asserts many users have avoided pneumonia and notes availability at Stewart's Pharmacy Cook and Sherman.
McCall Bros Plan Two Story Brick Building
McCall Bros will construct a two story brick building on the former Crawford Laundry site. The structure will house their flour and feed business entirely.
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McCall Bros
Crawford
Large Local Farm Deal Reports Major Sale Activity
B G Farm Deal by B F Dixon & Co. notes the sale of John Farris 220 to BD BR Kloperstein for about 31100. This stands as one of the region’s largest farm deals in years with the half section selling near 100 dollars per acre. Also reported is the Guy Eckerman city property valued at 4500 sold to Al Cocklin for a farm in Jefferson county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Dixon & Co
John Farris
Colds grip remedy praised by Virginia man
When colds and grip are prevalent the quickest remedies are in demand. Joseph D Williams of McDuff Va says he was cured of a deep lasting attack by Chamberlains Cough Remedy after trying several other preparations with no effect. For sale by Stewart's Pharmacy Cook Sherman The Firefly carried three show troupes this morning the Hlickman Bessey Co the Maloney's Wedding Co and one from Oskaloosa.
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Joseph D. Williams
McDuff
Stewart's Pharmacy
Cook & Sherman
The
Firefly
Hlickman-Bessey Co
Maloney’s Wedding Co
Oskaloosa
Leesville sensation as Brown survives with new discovery
A Leesville report claims W H Brown, believed near death, was saved by King's New Discovery for Consumption. The patient cites immediate relief from asthma and a complete cure soon after. The remedy also reportedly cures consumption pneumonia bronchitis and grip. Priced 50c and 1.00 with trial bottles free.
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Leesville
Tod
W. H. Brown
King
Stewart
Severeww Power Churches Weekly Schedule
Church services for A M EB Church list preaching at 11 a.m. and 7 90 p.m. Class meeting at noon Sunday School at 3 p.m. Christian Endeavor at 6 p.m. Reverend Joseph DeForest rector. Second Sunday after Easter with only Sunday School at 10 a.m. no morning or evening services.
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A.M. EB
Christian Endeavor
Joseph DeForest
Sabbath School and Endeavor Meeting Times
Sabbath School at 9:30 and 10:30. Preaching services at 1 and 7:30. Junior Endeavor at 5, Senior Endeavor at 6. You are welcome.
Sunday School and Endeavor Schedule Listed
The notice lists Sunday School at 9:00 and preaching at 11:00 by the pastor on The Temptation of Jesus. Junior Endeavor at 5:15 and Senior Endeavor at 6:10 followed by another preaching at 7:40.
Public notices invite attendees to church services
Regular preaching services held in the morning and evening. All other gatherings described as a gem. The public is cordially invited to attend.
First Church Services Advertised at Regular Time
The First Church of Christ Scientist announces Sabbath services at 1:40 a.m. with the sermon Everlasting Punishment from Mark 10:26 27. Sabbath School begins 9:30 a.m. Wednesday evening meetings at 7:40. The public is cordially invited.
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First Church of Christ ‘Scientist
Jefferson Street
Town Avenue
Miss Rose Rathmel Hosts A. M. 8 Club Evening
Society notes list Miss Rose Rathmel entertaining the A. M. 8 Club at her Heights home on Thursday. Refreshments followed the games and pastimes. Other items mention upcoming meetings with Miss Verne Ashby and Mrs. Sade Wilson, plus visits from local residents and travelers in Rock Island.
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Rose Rathmel
the Heights
Bachelor Maids Club
Verne Ashby
South
Iowa Avenue
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab Lets Refund Promise
Old pharmacy advert displays Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with money-back guarantee if not effective. Product bears E. W. Grove’s signature on each box and is priced at 25 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Real estate and help wanted notices in Washington Iowa sale and rental ads
Real estate listings include three choice lots east of the square with six blocks, an eight room house with well cistern city water and electric light for sale or trade, and the Old Crawford Laundry building 22 by 60 feet. Employment ads seek a brick yard worker, a general housekeeper, and an experienced housekeeper. Rent offered for 120 acres of Blue Grass pasture eight miles southwest of Washington. See Dan Anderson. Spaake at Journal Office.
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Frank Webb
Washington
Journal Office
Dan Anderson
Iowa
An Admirable Crichton and the Dudley Tutor Story
The piece recalls Lawrence Dudley, tagged as an Admirable Crichton for wide talents from languages to sports. Dudley tutored in the La Fourche household during 1960 61 amid Civil War tension in the south, attracting planter admiration despite his Yankee origin. He faced a warning to move north for safety.
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Crichton
Lawrence Dudley
Duke of Mantua
Dudley
la Fourche
Marie la Fourche
Ben la Fourche
Ee Ee En
Dudley’s southern duel tale ends with frontier bravado
A narrative recounts Dudley facing challengers in a wild south showdown. Duels with foil, pistol, and cutlass end with Dudley killing two foes and dodging further aggression as strangers move in. He later entertains guests at La Fourche plantation with a humorous account of the affair.
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Ben
Dudley
Stewart Anderson
Paris
Anderson
Hook
Hudley
la Fourche
South
Italy
Melanchtilon W. Parsons
Erie
Beware of quinine preparations in old cold cures
An old warning notes quinine danger to hearing and promotes Bromo Lax as a new cold cure with no quinine. It claims to cure colds and headaches quickly with a mild soothing laxative and is advertised as a 25 cent box sold by all druggists.
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Geneva
Windsor
Windsor Grocery
California
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Montana
Idaho
Dteh
Puget Sound
F. Boyd
D. P.A
Davenport, Iowa
Pollock Wallace
St. Louis
Burlington
G. Fox
M. Lombardo
Rocky Mountain
Adane
Fend Cine Co
Madison
A. B. Ritchey
Today
Streck
Grns
West Side
Sunflower State
Commercial Club
Maloney
Westchester
Richmond
Moreland
Crone
Malone
Sherif Teeter
Civic Hotel
Lily Morse
F. B. Hunt
St. Charles
Ill
Roy Patterson
West
Ottumwa
Fred van Sickle
Fred
Lemmon & Lewis
Elizabeth Anderson
Byrde Craven Koehler, Jr
Holy Land
Ida Reister
Tondre & Benz
Chamberlain
Stewart's
Severeww Powe
Trinity Episcopal
First Presbyterian
Second United Presbyterian
M E. Church
Sade Wilson
Presbyterian Church
Kate Miller
Due
McLane
Fairfield
George Roth
Noble
John Lewis
Missouri
Roy Twinam
John Walker
Tim Murphy
John Babcock, Sr
Crawford _ Laundh
McCaill Lros
Morris Wholesale House
Cincinnati
Brick Yard
Cunninghams’ Grocery
Journal
Erie Railroad
Chicago
New York
Boston
Columbus
Cambridge Springs
Niagara Falls
H. L. Purdy
Lil
Ida McDonald
the Maccabees of the World
RS. McDonald
Beaubien Street
Detroit
Mich
Cardus
Mrs. Ida Mermaid
Cardui
Wine
Jrvast
Atacatnynl
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass
Columbia Pharmacy
F. Lemnon
Alabastine Company
Water St
Grand Rapids
J. H. Stewart
E. C. Carris & Co
J. D. Daniels
DR J. A Ange
O. Barden’'s
Colenso
Frank Rogers
E &. Keck
Florist
Madison St
Uneeda
National Biscuit Company
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