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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
8
A portrait of Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Mereland as a vigorous, persistent leader. The piece extols his charisma, inventiveness, and public spirit while recounting his life from a Kentucky lineage to early business acumen and a bold stance against streetcar restrictions, highlighting his magnetism and resilience.
A profile of Tom L Johnson the Cleveland mayor described as a millionaire who built wealth in street railways and steel, then embraced Henry George’s single tax. The piece traces his rise from Louisville to Cleveland, his wars with Mark Hanna, his trolley empire, pension for reform, and his creed of equal rights. It notes his political audacity, public works, and civic campaigns including municipal ownership efforts.
Alfred J. Klein of the American Museum of Natural History will voyage from Boston on a whaler to Kerguelen Island to collect animal and plant specimens. He plans six to eight months at the island with skins and preserved plants for museum study, aided by the ship’s captain in exchange for oil from his catches.
The berry crop around Winsted Connecticut is the heaviest ever, with thousands of quarts going to waste as few buyers materialize. Households with bilberries blue and black berries already have ample supplies for winter, while a Nepang farmer unable to sell ten crates fed the berries to his pigs.
Major Hamm editor of the Constitutionalist Eminence Kentucky recalls a four year old attack and credits Bucklen's Arnica Salve with curing piles in ten days and preventing further trouble. He notes it as the quickest healer of burns sores cuts and wounds available for 50 cents at Stewart's drug store.
Iowa Central offers round trip excursion tickets every Tuesday to Minnesota Iowa the Dakotas Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Canadian Northwest and on the first and third Tuesdays monthly to the South Southeast West and Southwest. Rate one fare plus two dollars with liberal limits and stop overs. For details contact A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn. dec31
Railway advertisement notes reduced one way fares to California Oregon Washington British Columbia Utah Montana and Idaho from Iowa Central from Sept 15 to Oct 31. Also mentions $18.00 to New York City and Return plus $2.00 from Chicago on Aug 28 29 via Nickel Plate Road with return by Sept 4. Three daily trains in service, dining cars and luncheon options. Also invites readers to meet W J Bryan in New York and offers low rate excursion Chicago Aug 28 29 with return Sept 4. Information from John Y Calahan General Agent 107 Adams St Chicago.
Thousands of men are urged to work harvests with low rates posted along the Iowa Central Railway. Tickets are on sale daily from August 1 to 31, 1906. Wages range from $1.75 to $3.00 per day including board. For rates contact agents or write A. B Cutts, G. P. & T., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
An old advertisement urges readers with kidney and bladder trouble to use Foley's Kidney Cure, claiming it cures all forms of kidney and bladder diseases and is available at druggists.
R. A. Gray of Oakville Indiana describes ten years bedridden with kidney disease. He states standard medical care offered no relief until Boley's Kidney Cure was recommended, calling it a Godsend. The ad claims druggists carry the remedy.
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