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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1905
Page
5
The notice promotes immediate coal purchase from Bay Coal for upcoming winter needs. It emphasizes prompt action and positions the seller as ready to serve. The message uses a catchy push line to urge customers to buy now to avoid shortages.
Personal notes report James Wilson and Don Wittman returning from Muscatine visits, John Whitmore visiting from Oskaloosa, Carr excavating near Havre for a 3500 residence, and various locals traveling No. 11 12 trains. Des Moines target practice includes Lieut Wallace Howard Ross Le Roy Schilling and Harry Anderson with a U S championship eight days away.
Aug 18 event notes Harper substitutes for Richland in a local game described as interesting. Miss Carr from Ohio visits Miss Conklin’s home and plans to depart for Idaho in two weeks. The band plans a social on the 24th to raise funds.
A testimonial from Mr. W. T. Taylor of Winslow Alabama notes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy provides prompt pleasant relief for diarrhoea and colic. For sale by Stewart's Pharmacy Cook and Sherman.
A column recounts two gamblers who followed dreams to ruin. Colonel Booker in Mexico City bet on number eleven after a dream, losing £5,000 before quitting. Mr Smith in Monte Carlo trusted twenty seven after counting police and gendarmes in Paris, losing all his fortune and barely escaping despair with help from a spectator contact.
Reports describe Philo tacea electrica a forest plant of India that emits sparks when leaves are broken shock lasting to six yards disturbing a magnetic needle midday peak around two o clock and vanishing at night rain weakens it birds avoid the plant and no magnetic metals are found nearby suggesting plant generated electricity
In Charlotte New York on August 18 the yacht Iroquois defeated the Canadian challenger Temeraire. Both boats have won one race apiece in the Canada cup series creating a deciding third contest.
The article surveys pig worship in Melanesia and Hindu myth where Vishnu's boar avatar roots earth, plus global superstitions about animals. It notes stork killings in Holland Belgium, wolf and bear omens in the Urals and Lapland, Eskimo dog roles, Seneca bird graves, Mojave owl lore, and Mohammedan paradise animals, ending with a London Globe note on a Petersburg wizard and paradise keys.
In Ireland a judge instructed jurors that killing in a duel is murder yet praised a fairer duel than any previously heard in his career. The defendant Fenton, who killed another in a duel, was acquitted.
Iowa CentralRailway offers ONE FARE excursion tickets for the Des Moines Iowa State Fair period August 24 to September 1 1905 return allowed to September 2 1906. Call on agents for full details. Also Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised for sores ulcers burns and cancers with 25 cents at J H Stewarts.
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