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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1909
Page
7
Local items urge Kodak film from Frey’s Studio and Christmas orders at Vienna bakery. D. A. Chalmers advertises coal for sale and a phone number. Notes mention Mrs. Duncan and Mrs. Vincent visiting, a Brighton basketball tease, amateur supplies at Frey’s, and Fox & Dewey corn contest closing January 1 1910.
Mrs. Lou Duncan and two children returned home in Ainsworth after a day in the city. Miss Gladys Fitzgerald of Ainsworth changed cars here en route to Crawfordsville where she teaches. Mrs. John MacConahey returned to Mt. Union after visiting friends and her parents near Crawfordsville. Mrs. W. D. Hesseltine, southwest of town, rode to Columbus City to visit sister Mrs. Sarah Rawhouser.
The note urges arranging farm loans now to secure the best terms and avoid later worry. It claims loan business doubled this year by saving customers money. Also advertises Chamberlain's Liniment for back pain with simple application steps and local sellers F. L Stolte and Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Miss Cecil Corbett and Dewey Corbett of Eldora arrived Saturday evening to visit Mrs. Nellie Hartman south of town. Blanche Fitzgerald and Fayetta Chapel of Ainsworth spent Saturday in the city and returned home that evening. Donald and Ina Mitchell of Ainsworth visited then left for Havre to visit grandparents. F. C. Wright of Canon City, visiting in Keota and the Vincent home, returned home. Pearl Sharp, a teacher near Keota, spent Saturday at her home and returned to Keota. Elsie Brown joined Sharp household for the weekend. Market notice for fur and hide quotes urges reliance on full market values.
Frey’s Studio advertises a wide range of up to date photographic styles for Christmas. The copy claims their assortment surpasses other local studios and guarantees customer satisfaction, weather permitting.
In Arizona three miles west of Benson, Southern Pacific train No. 4 derailed at speed killing engineer Tom Walker and fireman P. W. Bauer. Thirteen seriously injured and thirty nine others burned or cut. Victims include Willard Knight and W. R. Walker of Los Angeles, Mrs. Bellows, A. H. Foster, Nellie Corbett and Colonel William Tish.
Washington reports the United States life saving service saved hundreds of lives and millions in property during marine disasters. The annual tally notes 1,376 disasters affecting 8,900 people, 72 vessels lost but 30 lives lost, and property valued at 16 million dollars with 2.3 million lost. A guard rescued a woman about to be hurled from a bluff and others from docks, marshes, ice, cliffs, or attempted suicides. Five automobiles trapped in marshes or quicksands were saved.
Bedford Ind Dec 19 Laura Cur and a man and a girl drowned while swimming in a Greek at Bedford. Rescue crews retrieved the bodies and authorities investigated the accident details as the public mourns the loss of three locals in the water tragedy.
Alma Utterback and her friend drowned while attempting to cross Indian Creek homeward from a school social. The incident occurred near here when a rowboat capsized as they tried to reach the shore.
In Washington Indiana F F Kellner Jr the father of Alma Kellner the missing Louisville girl was shown the child taken into custody there but did not identify her as his daughter. The incident unfolds as authorities search for the missing girl.
Frey s Studio advertises a two dollar camera as the best value on the market. The brief note highlights affordability and the studio as the source.
Night watchman W. J. Atkins, exposed to cold at Banner Springs Tennessee, suffers severe lung cold but recovers after using Dr King’s New Discovery. One bottle returns him to work. Claims cover severe colds coughs inflamed throats hemorrhages croup and whooping cough. 50c and 1.00 with trial bottle free guaranteed by J E Lemmon.
New York sports note outlines the eighteenth annual inter collegiate chess tournament among Harvard Yale Princeton and Columbia at the West Side Republican club with captains named and past winners listed. It also mentions the Triangular Chess league from Cornell Brown and the University of Pennsylvania and a potential post season meeting between league champions. The skating season opens with the St Nicholas Skating association meet in the metropolis. San Mateo county may revoke fight permit for Crofforth arena near San Francisco ahead of a anticipated Jeffries Johnson bout.
A Colonial era ad touts Foley's Urino Laxative as mild and pleasant tasting for women and children. It claims to cure constipation and contrasts favorably with harsher purgatives like pills and tablets from Lem mon's Pharmacy.
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