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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1907
Page
6
The article extols American forests and native plants as sources of valuable medicinal roots. Dr. R W Pierce of Buffalo promotes glyceric extracts, claims cures for indigestion liver and heart ailments, and offers a free book with extracts mailed on request. Both remedies are alcohol free and produced with specialized equipment.
Life quotes a reader asking Todd to return a book borrowed last year. The writer notes someone else took it and has not returned it, questioning others’ sense of honor.
A 1907 diary entry from Camp Bowen near Des Moines describes rainy camp life. Soldiers improvise tent trenches and ponchos while morning routines include wash, mess, and discipline. Evening concerts by the 54th and 454th bands draw regimental cheers and reflections on Iowa terrain and drill in a wartime narrative.
The advertisement touts Lax Digest as a candy tasting laxative digestant that won’t gripe or flush bowels. It highlights two sizes, 10c and 25c, with 6 or 16 tablets, and offers mail order if druggists lack stock. Fort Madison Iowa.
R H Carr of Wellman Iowa reports a light gray horse about 152 hands high and 1050 pounds missing after being hired out August 7 and to be returned August 10 The horse is hitched to an old buggy with light holstering and bears branded letters on the left hip A reward of 75 is offered 25 for the horse and 50 for the thiefs arrest and conviction The suspect is described as middle aged dark complexioned with a mustache about 5 feet 10 inches tall
A business meeting of the Pennsylvania Ohio and New York Veterans association will be held Tuesday evening August 13 at 7 30 at the office of John Shields 2 By order of 51 24 Secretary.
All city shoe stores will close at 12 o clock noon every day of the Chautauqua except Saturday. Shop early for footwear as stores reopen after lunch.
An old advertisement urges readers with kidney and bladder trouble to use Foley's Kidney Cure. It claims the remedy cures all forms of kidney diseases and bladder trouble and notes it is sold by all druggists.
W. W. Mason reports his uncle Wallace Mason died after a sudden apoplexy on Sunday and was pronounced dead at 10 30 am Thursday with all children present. Funeral services were held the 9th conducted by the old soldiers of Ft Cobb. Wallace Mason, a longtime Washington county resident, was a brother of Arthur Mason of California. The letter also includes a sales pitch for Dr Shoop’s Restorative with offers of samples and a free book.
Dr Shoops Magnetic Ointment claims quick relief for piles including itching pain and protruding symptoms. The product is sold in nickel capped glass jars at 50 cents by J H Stewart with promises of positive outcomes.
A conductor on a belt line around Asbury Park tells of a passenger demanding Sunset Avenue, his later miscue about timing, and the supervisor’s firing for not collecting extra fares. The tale, from Women's Home Companion, highlights gendered fare expectations and clerical discipline.
Advertisement promotes Foley’s Honey and Tar as immediate relief for hay fever and summer colds. It claims to stop difficult breathing and heal inflamed air passages, with guaranteed genuine product in a yellow package sold by druggists.
The Rev and Mrs L D Young will be home from their summer vacation tomorrow Wednesday evening at 6.
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