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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1909
Page
12
A damaged passage recalls a poetic flaring about life and flame, then shifts to a stained block of racial stereotype text about a Birmingham scene. It includes a humorous classroom exchange with a boy named Bobby explaining zones as male temperate or intemperate and female frigid or torrid, reflecting dated attitudes.
A quoted official defends lengthy procedures saying humans err and delays are deliberate to avoid mistakes. The remark highlights bureaucratic caution and the friction it creates with the public.
A skeptical prompt claims a medicine cannot be fake if it has thirty years of popularity and real cures for numerous women in American families. It asserts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is made from roots and herbs and owes its rising fame to genuine merit.
The article prescribes caustics after venom is removed and wound bled, listing hot iron, cigar, muriatic acid, caustic potash, lunar caustic, and nitrate of silver as emergency remedies, while advising to seek a physician if possible.
A Chicago Summer School piece narrates teachers from small towns and Midwestern centers drawn to the Midway campus. A serious young principal meets a freckle faced Kansas woman, their budding romance amid lectures, walks, and boating plans, as distant rentals and hotels frame a comic campus romance.
Billy Mumford, a former Davenport resident living on a west end shanty boat, was stabbed and badly cut along railroad tracks. John Alsopp, a miner, is detained and claims self defense after Mumford allegedly attacked him for tearing his miner’s card. Mumford’s wounds were treated at Mercy hospital. case adjourned to August 17.
A Alabama parent recalls a year old baby severely ill with cholera infantum who found relief after Elder Bros. & Carter's store recommended Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A single dose relieved the infant in fifteen minutes and cured the illness. available at F. L. Stolte and Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Nicola and Harmon announce afternoon closures except Saturday afternoons during Chautauqua. The notice states store operations pause each weekday afternoon with Saturday afternoon open as usual.
Ice cream freezers available in quarts and gallons with prices from 75 cents per quart and $1.00 per gallon. The Fair shows off reliable equipment including 75 ets freezers in HO-3t area.
Col Cody known for frontier expeditions will present a combined Wild West and Far East ethnographic exhibition with Indian Braves Mexican Vaqueros and Asiatic acts. Two daily performances and free shows by a daring Dervish accompany the program amid seated outdoor venues.
An ad advises Cham berlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for fast relief from diarrhoea. One or two doses are said to cure ordinary cases and it is suitable for children and adults. Sold by FPL Stolte and Lemnoy s Pharmacy.
Riding at the head of his own cavalcade Buffalo Bill personally directs every performance and leads a renowned plainsman group in showy horsemanship and frontier display.
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