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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1919
Page
3
Carload of tents reaches town and is unloaded for the Chautauqua grounds. Camp expected to be larger and more extensive than last year with growing demand for tents and season tickets. Improved weather favored outlook as threshing season winds down and boosters anticipate large attendance.
W. H. Ireland a Louisville traveling salesman recounts a severe 1888 cholera attack. He paid a hotel porter to buy Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and, following directions, took a double dose and slept until morning before resuming travel. Lemmon's Drug Store advertises the product.
Henkel and Brown the contractors building the new high school have fifteen carpenters now, up from six, with plans to double the crew within days to about forty if secured. Supt. C. J. Smith returns from Nebraska with offices near completion, and despite hammering noise and paint odor, schools prepare to open in September after years of disruption.
The Leon Beatty post No. 29 American Legion holds its regular meeting at the court house this evening at eight o'clock. Post commander Palmer Wilson urges all members to attend and invites soldiers who wish to join to come tonight. The post numbers about eighty members with several recent additions and aims to enroll every World War soldier in the community.
Birth reports for July show thirty births recorded by county physicians and filed with the clerk of courts. The list names the child, residence, father, and birth date, with several entries dated in June and some July births reported late.
A brief classified notice urging readers to check the want column for up-to-date news and special rates on clubs. It mentions contact via phone and an authorized representative Nita Belle McKeon for listings.
The county Christian denomination convenes at the local church on August 14 and 15 with Rev. W. L. Dalton and Rev. S. K. Coats among the Washington participants. The program includes sermons, devotionals, reports from churches, county-wide surveys, and a banquet for elders and deacons.
Four injured young people in a northwest Wellman automobile crash returned home after treatment. Lester Disney remained most seriously hurt though able to be moved to the residence. a makeshift bed was placed in a car for transport. The Ford involved in the rollover remained at the scene and the owner has yet to decide its fate.
A reflective maxim argues that feeling shame for wrongs marks the beginning of virtue and moral improvement.
Rural mail carriers from across the state gather in Washington for the twentieth annual convention. Sessions open with a smoker at the Commercial club, followed by addresses by Mayor J B Bovee Postmaster A R Miller and others. Principal speaker Senator W S Kenyon appears Thursday afternoon. A banquet Thursday night and tours Friday close the event.
A widow recounts decades of illness following her husband's death and typhoid. After three months on Mayr's Wonderful Remedy her bowels move regularly and she feels well again, claiming the preparation removes intestinal mucus and calms inflammation causing stomach liver and intestinal ailments.
A Dupuyer Montana hotel keeper F H Dear backs Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy with four year track record of success. He says he has recommended it widely to friends and notes Lemmons Pharmacy and druggists carry the product.
A brief excerpt notes Colton's line about applause as the spur of noble minds and the end and aim of the weak, inviting readers to ponder motivation and virtue.
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