Attractive Valentine Window Promotes Seasonal Gifts
A local storefront highlights a Valentine window display to attract shoppers. The shop emphasizes meeting the season's requirements with appealing gift options and seasonal styling.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1910
Page
4
A local storefront highlights a Valentine window display to attract shoppers. The shop emphasizes meeting the season's requirements with appealing gift options and seasonal styling.
Mrs. Viola Baker of Floral Arkansas credits Cardui the woman's tonic with restoring her health after a month of weakness and nervousness. The ad claims Cardui is a natural herbal extract with no minerals or strong drugs and urges readers to consult druggists or the Ladies Advisory Dept. of the Chattanooga Medicine Co. for more information.
Walton Williams reports on France's Seine flood disaster, noting Paris as the hardest hit city. The overflow rivals historic highs, with vast property losses estimated at 200,000,000 dollars, thousands homeless, and hundreds dead across the country.
The flood began January 17 with heavy storms and swelled the Seine from upper tributaries. Paris faced ruined sewers and basements as the city’s tunnels, the Eiffel Tower area, and underground passages flooded. Victims spoke of losses and a race to rescue archives and possessions as towns across the region suffered severe devastation.
The plan, aided by the US Department of Agriculture and Virginia officials, selects two to six boys per county from two to ten schools. Each boy gets an acre to farm with government demonstrator guidance, teacher support, and annual county fairs with prizes. Participants must have parental consent and school attendance, with ownership of all crops after harvest.
Professor R M Wenley reports Michigan experiments overturning the idea that consciousness loss comes from reduced brain blood flow. They found brain and limb volumes grow during sleep and shrink on waking with breathing waves recorded in brain and extremities. Circulation fall closely matches inspiration and rise with expiration.
A small party of electrical men heard Il Trovatore by wireless telephone during an electrical show at the Coliseum Chicago. Portable transmission on two stages allowed voices to be heard clearly from both works and the Boston Opera Company numbers. Collins noted interference limited the test.
Police learned a group of former Government Hospital For the Insane inmates are living together in a “community of interest” in Washington. Mrs Whalen, visiting an aunt, disappeared from the hospital. investigators traced her to a likely gathering of ex-inmates in the northwest area as authorities seek the site.
Richard Bowring of Ramsgate England arrived in New York with a falcon and no goshawk and aims to use them for hunting at Paul J. Rainey’s home in New Albany Mississippi. Bowring says falcons and goshawks have not been used in the United States before and he is introducing a new sport. Falcons are used for grouse and partridges while goshawks would hunt hares rabbits and other ground animals.
Representative Foelker of New York introduced a bill to place beef mutton lamb pork and other meats on the free list. The move follows rising food prices and mirrors similar resolutions in Congress.
Winter and spring wheats varied with No. 2 red near 1.26 to 1.28 per bushel and No. 1 northern around 1.14 to 1.165. Corn and oats moved in narrow ranges, while hogs and cattle led Chicago and Omaha receipts with bands from eight to nine dollars and higher for select grades.
Advertisements tout a 6 to 14 day cure for piles with PihLIS Ointment money back guarantee and a Foley's Kidney Remedy promoted for kidney and bladder troubles. Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co are listed as suppliers.
Minnie R. Conner announces as a Republican candidate for County Superintendent, subject to the June 1910 primary voter decision. She declares intent to seek the nomination from Republican voters.
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