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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1910
Page
5
Local notices highlight the Kidnaped for a Million company at the Graham tonight with The Little Perry Sisters and Grace Hunter among performers. shoppers visit Vienna bakery and Miss Bernice Pettit visits Keota. Many residents travel or host visits in town.
Hilda the Helper is a busy girl always ready to assist in town affairs. Her energy and readiness draw admiration, including from Philander Brown, who finds her attractive as she assists in many actions around the town.
Friends report the remains of Vida Alberson Moulton who died in February in Los Angeles will arrive Monday morning. The funeral service will be at the Ed McFarland home on 8S Iowa avenue Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. C. Abels. Interment follows at Elm Grove Cemetery. Accompanying the body are husband George Moulton and mother Mrs Elizabeth Alberson.
The New York Press reports Burmese women favor hookha and tobacco water pipe, using bubble nicotine water as a lazy form of chewing. They keep gourds of the beverage, claim it preserves their teeth, and say it mostly serves men who crave nicotine.
Mrs. M. L. Dix of Clarksville Tennessee credits Dr King s New Discovery with curing a four year lung ailment. She says the medicine eases chest pain and fatigue and restores ability to work. The ad touts cures for coughs colds hay fever lagrippe asthma croup bronchitis and hemorrhages among others with trial bottles offered.
London clubwomen adopt a new fad using a dainty Japanese pipe called the kissery with a gold and silver bowl and mouthpiece. The bowl holds a pinch of tobacco yielding about seven whiffs per use.
A historical ad claims The Royal Market offers tender home dressed beef pork and veal and markets Libbys Famous peaches pears apricots and plums. It boasts the best stocked market in the state and invites shoppers to save money by trading there.
Political meeting in Olds last evening drew a good attendance as Col 8 W Brookhart and R 8 Galer spoke for the Congressional nomination. The candidate spoke at Mt Pleasant the night before and will appear with Gaier in Hillsboro tonight.
Warden Saunders of the Ft. Madison penitentiary will lecture at the MBE church on May 5 under the Brotherhood of the MF church. He will discuss his work at Ft. Madison and attract statewide interest for his original methods and care of prisoners.
Mrs. Will W. Wilson received a telegram stating Cal W. B. Bell worsened in Hot Springs Arkansas where he had gone for ill health. Wilson has been summoned by the family and Mrs. Wilson plans to travel there tonight. Bell has suffered poor health for months.
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