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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1911
Page
6
An advertisement touts Wryeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy for darkening gray hair and preventing aging signs. It promises dandruff relief and hair growth, with a money back guarantee if it fails to meet claims. Sold 50 cents a bottle by McElhinney Drug Company.
The article marks the 924th anniversary of Odd Fellowship and notes 1910 membership surpassing 2,000,000 with 1,952,421 reported. It describes relief expenditures, lodges and encampments, Rebekah activities, and plans for a new aged home in Mason City funded by Iowa Grand Lodge.
A long profile details General Raney of Marengo, Iowa, as head of the Patriarchs Militant in Iowa and a veteran civic leader. It notes his army service, public roles, and extensive fraternal activity with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and related groups. The piece also praises the Military Fraternities and the order’s public work in Iowa.
Minerva Saunders known as Mia plans a new marriage after Abel is believed drowned. Abel returns, manipulates, and collapses a strangest tale ends with his staged death and the couple wed, only for Abel to die in a fatal wagon accident weeks later, sealing a grim cycle.
The ad asserts Mothers Friend helps expectant mothers through pregnancy, easing nausea and breast tenderness, preserving figure symmetry after birth, and aiding bodily changes. It claims safety and comfort during the waiting period and promotes strong motherhood. Sold at drug stores with a free informational book.
A Corning Iowa youth Merrick Twining saved Charles Munns, manager of the local electric plant, from a live wire shock by dragging him to safety and aiding his recovery. The act is praised as a Carnegie hero medal worthy deed.
The advertisement touts Mall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, with internal use targeting blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for any failure to cure and invite testimonials, listing F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio, and urging Druggists to stock the remedy.
A fragment from London Opinion features a new maid asking whether to announce a visitor and whether to greet a telephone operator who is a widow. The dialogue plays on social etiquette and misdirection with wordplay about a grass widow.
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