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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
3
The weather forecast notes partly cloudy conditions tonight and Saturday with probable showers in the western portion. It also indicates slightly warmer conditions on Saturday.
Community notices list visits and travels from Delta Coal John Shields & Son to nearby towns, shop moves, and upcoming events. People such as Geo Maxwell, Ed Wiley, Miss Ella Montgomery, J N Lewis, and Rev Schreckengast are mentioned with various trips, hospitalities, and social plans amid local business updates and a railroad yard project.
An accident at a crossing near the Safeguard office marred last evening’s Chantauqau exercises. Five injured included Mesdames Swoboda and Jean of Nichols, a boy Joseph Church, and hack driver Paxton, with serious but non fatal injuries. The frightful scene followed a rush for the bound train as a hack plunged onto the track. The broken hip and head injuries were treated, and no fatalities occurred. The report criticizes the hazardous crossing and careless driving in a dangerous stretch at the foot of a steep hill.
J H Johnston of Broughton Georgia recalls years of bronchitis and asthma relief after using Dr King's New Discovery for consumption. He credits the medicine with curing his wife and endorses it as the best throat and lung remedy with guaranteed 50 cent and one dollar bottles and free trial at Stewart's pharmacy.
Tomorrow at the Johnson bakery customers find a wide array of cakes pies breads buns and more. Bakers are hard at work promising warm bread each morning for breakfast and urging orders.
Local notices report residents traveling to Pleasant Plain De Moines West Chester and Brighton for errands visits and work. Camp Davidson named for Major J T Davidson. Ads tout Rocky Mountain Tea and KW Winters oil sales.
A jumble of ads notes C OC Marian of Raton boasting relief from dyspepsia with Electric Hitters, a Washington sheet music stock claim from Chas L Latine, and discounts on musical instruments. Also mentions Iowa Central rail fare sales to Minnesota and Dakotas, a Hawkeye initiation event led by Grand Master W M Narvis, and Pleasant Plains W F M S meeting postponed to August 15 at Mrs Thrashers home.
The clever actress Adelaide Thurs ton will present her season’s new play At Cozy Corners. A write up of Mise Thurston appeared in Moosey’s latest magazine. A second item notes Queen of Our Mansion as a newly published song. The reference to SALING’s Musto Store appears in the fragment.
The piece describes a May Day ritual in Belgium with maidens predicting love using dew grass blades and colored threads. It contrasts with practical rosin applications for water pipes on bridges and basement floors in machine shops, followed by a humorous regional dialect quip from a Chicago newspaper.
Tommy asks if sugar can cure anything and his mother replies with a gentle domestic exchange about remedies and curiosity. The line captures a child’s playful doubt and a mother’s patient response in a quiet domestic moment.
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