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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1912
Page
6
Two reader letters praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for relief from long standing female troubles. Mrs Dema Berhune of Sikeston Missouri and Mrs Charles Moors of Murrayville Illinois recount years of illness and fear of surgery, crediting the product with renewed health and ability to perform daily tasks.
A breeder offers a 1800 pound stallion with good action and bone for the 1912 season at his farm two miles east of West Chester and 1.25 miles south.
A.Health ads tout a Sage and Sulphur remedy to restore hair color and improve growth. It claims gray hairs fade, dandruff clear, and hair becomes dark, soft, and luxuriant in days. Special Agent McWininney Drug Co promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphury Hair Remedy.
Des Moines report notes nights cool with general frost and some freezing in northern counties. Light showers on the 25th and 28th. seed bed ready for corn, oats up, potatoes planted. Grass improving, stock in pasture, cherries and plums blossoming in the south. April pigs doing well after March losses. George M. Chappel
Iowa State college marks the formal opening of its new home economics building with a convocation led by L S Harvey of Stout Institute. The event includes a May day celebration, a campus reception, and highlights the department’s blend of cultural and technical studies for women’s education and teaching careers.
Centerville Iowa April 30. Nerman Hirschfield, a man in town diagnosed with leprosy, arrives to visit relatives and faces deportation. Michigan and Iowa health officials coordinate to arrange a private car and ensure he travels back to Bay City Michigan under quarantine, with rail lines and Illinois permission needed.
The speaker urges teaching sciences and cultural studies with focus on women’s work. They advocate using home making chemistry and arts in home building and decoration. They claim 95 percent of state women will enter homes and emphasize training in homemaking.
Ames becomes the first town in the state to organize a permanent inter church body to support the Men and Religion Forward movement. The organization was perfected yesterday afternoon and formalized at a mass meeting Sunday night as Ames laymen pledge to push community service and youth work in the coming year.
Mount Pleasant La April 380 Mr and Mrs Henry Bascom Waly of Webster Ia donate 5000 to Iowa Wesleyan endowment drive. Gift arranged through Duff N Smith assisting President Edwin Schell as campaign aims to raise 100 000 of 160 000 by July. Benefactor Jenry Bascom cited as late Methodist bishop names misread.
Iowa banks report a historic surge with deposits rising by 23,161,578.29 in the ten months through April 3 1912. From February seven to April three deposits climbed 7,746,793.75 as reserves held at 21.5 percent.
The New York Globe notes a curious Titanic relic held by Maj Arthur Peuchan of the Toronto Queen's Own Rifles. A sea stained scrap, signed by Co Lightoller, claims Peuchan ordered into a lifeboat and proved his seafaring bravery.
CULY BUS LINE offers prompt handling of phone orders by Frank Rogers. Call 689 Black and leave details at Glue Street and number for immediate attention.
Fragmentary timetable lists westbound and eastbound trains with numbers such as No. 12 No. 49 No. 21 and No. 11 and local freights. Notes indicate daily runs and Sunday exceptions with agents H W Russel and F L Broadgatr.
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