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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 11, 1911

Page

2

Marriage of George W Marr and Pearl White in Washington

The citizens of Ainsworth learned of the wedding of George W Marr and Pearl White held at Washington yesterday at noon. Friends extend best wishes and expect them to settle here around October. Mrs. Alice Polland of Avoca Iowa arrived to visit relatives for a few weeks.

Wwoworth Ainsworth George W. Marr Pearl White Washington Alice Polland Avoca Iowa

Crawfordsville Notes and Local Visits Report

Crawfordsville notices recount visits by Ralph Smith Agnes Stewart and Evangeline Stewart among others. Local band concert postponed to the next evening with an ice cream social planned at the United Presbyterian church lawn. A Welsh neighbor Eben Davis lost a horse valued at 180 to 200 dollars.

Crawfordsville Ralph Smith Mise Agnes Stewart A.M. Cowden Washington Evangeline Stewart Chicago W. P. Davidson H. Han W. A. Harper T. W. Rickey Frank Closeen J. J. Anwyl Glen Hluston Jesse Fletcher Grant Mina McCleary Gormley Ft. Madison C. M. Strain Winfield United Presbyterian Church Eben Davis

Ice Cream Social at Valley Church Sings Invite

Local notice lists an ice cream social at Valley Church on Saturday evening with everyone invited. Brief items mention Brighton resident Joe Buzzard traveling to Missouri Wednesday to buy horses and a Washington caller Tuesday.

Joe Buzzard Missouri Miss Mae Jones Washington Valley Church Will Kooy Nannie Wat

Explosion Kills Woman in Italian Colony Incident

A dynamite blast in Dawe Hi’s Italian colony killed Mrs. Joseph Sardille and injured fourteen others, causing a crowd panic. The attacker remained unidentified, and a two-brieg fuvitgling owned by Tony Roundway was damaged along with a threatening money-demand letter.

Brieg

Goose as national emblem considered in comic note

A humorous newspaper aside argues the goose could better symbolize the United States than the eagle. The writer recalls a goose wandering into a church in Illinois during services and scattering worshipers before exiting, noting an angry gander can be more dangerous than a dog.

United States

Meritol Pile Remedy Advertisement

To the People of Washington we are agents in this city for Meritol Pile Remedy. Manufacturers report unusual demand for this prescription meritorious preparation. It is not like common salves, but a different, convenient form for proper use. We are authorized to guarantee by St Lemmon's Pharmacy, members of American Drug & Press Association.

Washington St. Lemmon’s Pharmacy American Drug & Press Association Lemmon's Pharmacy

Imagination Falsely Promises Freedom In Death Bed Trial

A condemned man was told his life would be spared if he spent a night in a bed where a cholera patient died. He did so and died the next day. No patient had died in that bed, yet the imagined danger harmed him fatally, showing imagination can trigger fatal nerve effects.

Will Pay Debt to Women Institution for Women Professionals

Henry Muirhead of Glasgow Scotland who died recently left part of his fortune to found and maintain an institution of instruction for women in physical and biological courses so they could become dentists electricians chemists and similar professionals he said he had always been indebted to women to his mother his wife and his eldest sister

Henry Muirhead Glasgow Scotland

Meritol Tonic Digestive Promoted Locally

A local advertisement urges readers to start Meritol Tonic Digestive to cure fatigue and poor digestion. It claims the tonic strengthens stomach function, boosts appetite, and enriches blood, with Lemmon's Pharmacy named as exclusive agents.

Blood Purifier Claims and Purport

In fighting to keep the blood pure the white corpuscles attack disease germs like tigers. This condition demands Electric Bitters to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to expel poisons from the blood. They are the best blood purifier, writes C. T. Budahn of Tracy California. They build up health and strength. Deat Lemmon's Pharmacy.

C. T. Budahn Tracy Calif Deat Lemmon’'s

How to Make Limewater for Household Use

Limewater helps with stomach acidity and diarrheal symptoms in children and can improve flavor in milk. Soak a fresh unslaked lime in four gallons of hot water for 24 hours, strain, and store. It also prevents milk from souring when heated, and cleanses bottles for babies without odor.

Fighting Man to Fight for What He Believes

Elwood Hendrick states in Atlantic that courage and bravery arise from willingness to fight for what is right. He argues that fighting to defend one’s beliefs is a manly merit unlike relying on a lawyer and that resolutions or legislation cannot replace the instinct to fight.

Elwood Hendrick

Piglet toothache and penny ante prices at the farm

A column on farm life laments piglets with toothache and second teeth, notes male pigs lack wisdom teeth, and offers iodine flushes. It attacks parish and neighborly penny ante egg pricing, honesty shortages, and social envy over luxury goods, ending with a harsh view on marriages into wealth.

Chicago markets and grain and livestock quotes 1911

Market roundup from Chicago August 11 1911 shows receipts estimates for cattle sheep and hogs, with prices in ranges for light mixed packers heavy shipping grades and rough stock. Wheat corn and oats close data provided by Beach Wickham Grat Co with regional price indications.

Chicago Beach-Wickham Grat Company Postal Telegraph Ilinois

Wealth of the World’s Richest Explored

The eight richest people remain hard to identify. Indian princes are wildly wealthy though fortunes are often unverified. Europe also has many wealthy families and individuals with little reliable public knowledge for comparison.

Europe

Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Relieves Hay Fever

KE M Stewart of Chicago reports great relief from hay fever during hot months using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. The ad notes many others with similar symptoms would benefit and states the product is sold by all druggists.

Foley KE. M. Stewart Wolframs St Chicago Stewart

Jiggleton Trouts and Measles In Browning Tale

A fragment from Browning's Magazine recalls Jiggleton where a man away for a weekend reports a brook trout catch his daughter contracts measles his son makes six outs in a baseball game and the narrator catches a cold then boards the next train back to town.

Chamberlain's Liniment Promises Faster Healing Claims

Advertises Chamberlain's Liniment as reducing healing time for cuts and bruises to about one third the usual period. Describes antiseptic action and lack of maturation, plus relief of muscle soreness and rheumatic pains. Available at Lemmon's Pharmacy.

Lemmon’s Pharmacy

A Little Prophetess Teaches Boys Instead

In Worlds Work, Arthur D. Dean recalls asking teachers what they taught. A fourth teacher, praising a girl, replied simply that she teaches only boys, highlighting a quiet emphasis on helping male students.

Arthur D. Dean

Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Ad

Buy it now. Now is the time to buy a bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is almost certain to be needed before the summer is over. This remedy has no superior. For sale by Lemmon's Pharmacy.

Lemmon

Wanted Many of Them A Maiden Seeks a Lady Turtle

A small maiden urges her father to bring back a great big lady turtle on his southern journey to burn a lot of baby turtles right away. An ordinary diarrhoea case can be cured by a single dose of Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy sold by Lemmon s Pharmacy.

Gale Lemmon

Flattery Wins Approval From Audience Speech

A writer notes that praising an individual face to face may fail but praising to an audience yields loud applause. The piece contrasts private compliment with public flattery to an intelligent body, highlighting the power of public rhetoric.

Prices on Washington City Market Report

The Washington City market lists prevailing prices for hay straw flour corn meal and miscellaneous goods. Notable quotes include corn at 146 per hundred and roosters goose and other poultry prices shown among overall commodity rates.

Washington City Vikas Wlour Pet Amck Icscsvesee

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