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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1906
Page
6
A column notes baseball volatility with Ned Hanlon and Connie Mack facing changing tides and declining teams in Boston and other markets. It also offers fruit and gardening tips like the Lucretia and Primo berries, potting soil prep, composting, and peroxide treatment for cut flowers.
Miller Woggins tops the National League batting list while CMMer Nugggins of Cincinnati shows strong hitting form at second base. The piece contrasts pennants won and lost, citing Jimmy Collins and Boston American teams as examples from 1904 1908 and notes their pivotal roles and investments.
The glycerine in Dr Pierce’s Medicines enhances medicinal properties and aids the Black Cherrybark Golden Seal Root Stone root and Queen’s root in Golden Medical Discovery. It claims to subdue lingering coughs throat and lung complaints, aids digestion and strength, but warns it will not cure consumption in later stages. Readers are invited to send for extracts and information from Dr R V Pierce Buffalo NY.
A striking feature of both major league baseball races this year has been the number of slurops and sports. Strong and weak teams have had their pronounced ups and downs.
This Rural New Yorker feature explains the York Imperial apple as a major commercial variety in the middle Atlantic states and westward to Missouri and Kansas. It thrives in central Pennsylvania to North Carolina, with large, colorful fruit and a distinctive square-like shape. Named near York Iowa, the imperial epithet was given by Charles Downing. The tree prefers heavy clay soils and stores well within its zone, but is unsuited for planting north of central Pennsylvania.
The article discusses propagating sweet alyssum heliotrope salvia etc for spring beds and Easter plants. It notes doubles flowering petunias and begonias Vernon and erfordii as bedding choices and warns on frost, red spider, and the benefits of saving seeds for stock.
Chicago and East Buffalo stock and grain quotations list wheat corn oats and rye futures, live stock receipts and prices for hogs cattle sheep and lambs, with cash sale ranges for winter wheat and various grades and farming commodities. Trading shows mixed shifts and strong markets for livestock in Buffalo.
A 19th century advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. It states the remedy is taken internally, works on blood and mucous surfaces, and builds up the constitution. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for any failure to cure and invite testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
On Sunday morning August 19 at 11 o'clock Rev H Senonye from Tokio Japan will lecture at Bethel Presbyterian on Missions in Japan. He has spent eight years in the U S preparing for work among his people and recently earned a BD from San Francisco Seminary and MA from Princeton. A free will offering will help defray his travel expenses.
The Gazette office will stay open morning and afternoon until August 23 for subscribers owing balances. From 11 45 a m during Chautauqua, accounts may be settled. Please be prompt in making settlement. Logan and Neal.
An announcement directs readers to call on or write the Iowa Land Co for excursions to Canada every Tuesday.
E A Wolf of Bear Grove Iowa credits Electric Bitters with ending two years of kidney trouble and general debility. The advertisement claims the remedy cures stomach liver and kidney complaints blood diseases headaches dizziness and weakness, priced 50 cents and guaranteed by Stewart's drug store.
Travel promo for an August 28 29 trip from Chicago to New York on the Nickel Plate Road with return on September 4. Depart Chicago La Salle Street Station and inquire through John Y. Calahan 107 Adams St Chicago for details. Also notes piano voice theory and harmony classes organized by Prof W E David M M Wand.
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