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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1906
Page
3
Fair tonight and Sunday. The forecast for Iowa as issued for today and tomorrow calls for clear to fair conditions with no precipitation expected. Humidity levels remain moderate and temperatures are anticipated to be seasonally mild.
Mrs Ellen Cook visits the Misses Smith on West Main and a social with lemon ice and ice cream is planned for Tuesday night. Dozens of townsfolk, travellers, and visitors are noted leaving or arriving from Muscatine Crawfordsville Brighton Ainsworth Kalona and Winfield with multiple short trips and social engagements.
The city hosts a social at St James with cake varieties and coffee. Dozens of residents deliver and return from visits to Winfield Kalona Oskaloosa Chicago Keota Crawfordsville and other hubs while Rev Payton conducts services. A band of locals buys a carload of fine horses and travelers head to Ainsworth Mt. Pleasant Princeton Keota Fairfield and other points.
A2.20 Wm. Long announces his bid for sheriff subject to the Republican County Convention. A. B. Anderson of Washington county Pa. visits his aunt Mrs. Emma R. Wright on the Heights. Anderson, back from Des Moines, attended the National Society Army of the Philippines meeting and held political talks, also pursuing state senate district Green and Washington counties. He will stay over Sunday.
Frank Jones of Pikeville Indiana reports a high demand for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with scarce supplies. He notes the medicine has cured dysentery when other remedies failed and mentions it is sold by Cook & Sher and Stewards pharmacy.
UP 18 hereby orders the September 1906 term of district court in Lincoln County Iowa to adjourn to September 1906 at 9 a m. A petit jury shall be summoned for Thursday September 13 and a Grand Jury for September 12 at 9 a m with notice by publication and on the bar docket. Done at Brooklyn Iowa August 1906 Jno T
A fragment notes that unnecessary attacks of colic and dysentery come on and prompt relief may be achieved without a service, urging a dose of chloroform? No, it mentions a remedy to relieve the patient and references Cook & Shermanart's pharmacy. The capitalization and phrasing indicate an old local ad or notice urging expedient treatment.
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