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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1908
Page
2
John Wollins of The Yankee Regent Company, billed for Sept 2 at Graham, is an ex feague baseball player. He introduces a musical number surpassing GooD Goo Man and burlesques the famed White Sox Cubs championship games.
Fred Hall, who has spent the last week visiting his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Young, departed this morning for Des Moines.
Paul Kurtz is in Eldon visiting relatives for a week. Dr. Sexton, dentist, 1st stairway north of the post office, phone 604. Nice home grown peaches delivered, phone 596. Keota resident W. R. Charlton returns home after a city visit. Eva and Jessie Dodd visit Sigourney for a few days. Miss Jessie Laffer travels to Sigourney for a weekend with relatives. Col D J Palmer and wife depart for Toledo to attend the national G A R encampment. Miss Helen Calhoun arrives from Champaign to visit grandparents Mr and Mrs W C Ferguson.
Mrs Chas E Smith of West Franklin Maine says she uses Dr King’s New Life Pills as their family laxative because they are effective and gentle. The painless purifiers are sold at Lemmon's Pharmacy for 25 cents.
The Scrap Book recounts a Washington gathering of negro ministers and a Pennsylvania veteran's postwar tale about a preacher's text translating to rabbi. It includes a quip about insurance and a punchline on fires. Also notes Peter the Great tricked by a jester and a Macaulay line on Puritans bull baiting.
A meditation on night and the deceptive power of light. The speaker reflects on sight, the sun’s beams, and humanity’s fear of death, asking why life should be dreaded when illumination can mislead even in the natural world.
A farmer drives up to a motorist working under a car stuck in the road and asks to pass. The man demands about two feet of space, withdraws his protruding feet, and returns to hammering. The farmer leaves, deciding Saturday is better for town.
A fragment recalls an English journal noting Cresswell’s death in Bridewell and a £10 bequest for a sermon praising her virtue. The Duke of Buckingham is said to have written the sermon praising her life as well lived from birth to death.
A physician advocates smiling as a mental and physical health practice. He explains that the body expresses the mind and cooperation is key. If mood is left unexpressed, the mind may adopt a sad attitude. conversely, smiling can lift mood and even turn artificial cheer into genuine joy.
A humorous anecdote depicts Tommy seeking out a red headed boy named Jimmy Brown to join a Sabbath school. The dialogue hinges on curiosity and a boy’s readiness to join upon confirming a classmate’s attendance. The piece presents light, old fashioned humor through dialogue.
A deacon known for squeezing labor from his workers prompts a neighbor’s wry quip about Tim Flannery who left after a week. A nearby caddie tale recalls a minister’s attempt to console, and a South Kentucky scene ends with a heckler shouting Go it my peckerwood as Senator West loses his balance on the stump.
A paragraph recalls Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema designing scenes for leading actors with mixed success. A Lyceum notice joked “Coriolanus” lists Coriolanus as Sir Henry Irving with incidental music by Sir A C Mackenzie and scenes by Alma-Tadema. A stage hand quipped the trio would keep the run short. The tale of Hood’s signal to the French fleet in 1798 is noted with Nelson’s vow to earn a peerage or Westminster Abbey after battle tomorrow.
Two Irishmen, Pat and Mike, improvise a conundrum when their supplies run out. Pat guesses a riddle about a barnyard creature in feathers, while Mike initially stalls. The punchline lands as Pat asks why a dog would bark, and the teller notes the bark was added to complicate the riddle.
An ice cream social will be held at Pleasant Hill church on Tuesday evening September 1. Music will be provided by Mrs. McKee and her daughters. All are welcome to attend.
An advertisement touts Foley's Kidney Remedy as beneficial for elderly individuals suffering kidney or bladder issues. It claims the product stimulates urinary organs corrects irregularities and energizes the body with Lemmon's Pharmacy as the source.
The Everson property adjoining the City Library described as lot seven in block nine and lot one in block twenty six in Highland Park is offered for sale to close the estate of Mrs E K Everson. For price and terms see A Anderson executor 67 tf.
Article promotes Foley's Orino Laxative as a cure for chronic constipation and a means to prevent appendicitis. It claims the product stimulates the liver and bowels, restores natural action, and is mild and pleasant to take. Lemmon's Pharmacy advertises the remedy and warns against substitutes.
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