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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1905
Page
3
The forecast for Iowa calls for showers tonight and Tuesday should be fair. No significant changes expected beyond scattered showers noted for the evening and improving conditions by Tuesday morning in most areas. The report is filed from Washington with special correspondence.
Multiple short items report visitors, arrivals, and social trips across Davenport, Oskaloosa, Brighton, Morning Sun, Sigourney, Kalona, and nearby areas. People named include J J MecKeone, Mr Miller, W P Moothart, Glen Hazen, Harry Payne, Mrs Snyder, A Burnell, Gertrude Marion, Miss Mattie Wilson, May Eagle, Clara Eagle, Mrs F W Wette, Mrs Daniel Steffy, Louie Witte, Mrs Frank Butts, E R Kirkpatrick, N P Herrington, Fern Woods, Miss Effie Wilcoxson, Misses Rowe, J Palmer, Lewis Davis.
J E Lemmon explains he pursued a nickel Havana cigar named Wadsworth ros Chico made in Binghamton after discovering it in the East. He arranged shipments of 5,000 at a time to meet rising demand and recommends the Chico to smokers for its quality.
Ringling Brothers World’s Greatest Shows will exhibit in Muscatine on Tuesday August 29 with an expanded program. The show travels in eighty five seventy foot cars and includes Field of the Cloth of Gold featuring 1200 actors and nearly 500 horses on a new large stage. Special excursion rates are available on all travel lines for this unique circus in the vicinity.
Editor Journal invites farmers to August 22 Farmers day at the Chautauqua. At 2 pm Prof. Golden of the Agricultural college will discuss corn raising. At 4 pm a farmers round table with talks by Hon. John Downie Prof. Holden and Hon. Sam Gardner plus William Sutherland on variety farming.
The McClean gun for the exhibition arrived Saturday afternoon. Dr. McClean and General Wheeler will arrive tomorrow morning. The 4,500 gun weighs about 1100 pounds and costs about 2 per firing. Express charges totaled over 35 dollars.
No park service was held last evening because of unavoidable circumstances and damp ground. This year’s park services are ended unless a special program is arranged.
During Chautauqua from Wednesday August 16 to Thursday August 24, inclusive, yards will be cleared every afternoon from 12 to 5. Signed Pauls Lumber Co Bowman and Knupp A H Wallace and Son.
J D Runyan of Butlerville reports mysterious symptoms from indigestion and biliousness improving with Dr King's New Pills. He calls them a remedy for dizziness sour headache and constipation. Guaranteed at J H Stewart's store for 25 cents.
Readers learn Hall's Catarrh Cure claims a universal cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It describes internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollar reward for any failure to cure. Includes testimonials and Toledo address for F J Cheney & Co. Sold by druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Iowa Central offers excursion tickets at one fare round trip for the September 1905 Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Tickets valid for return until September 2 1905. For rates and schedules, consult local agents.
L B Ward offers hauling for people tenting at the Chautauqua at reasonable rates. Phone 425, 52 3.
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