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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1908
Page
3
The piece outlines how to talk entertainingly and correctly, advising a softer voice, clear enunciation, avoidance of slang, and genuine interest. It stresses eye contact, listening, brevity, courtesy, and praising others, with notes on silence and avoiding gossip.
A housekeeper should keep an emergency shelf for unexpected visits. When guests arrive with little notice, choose items like potted chicken olives sardines and canned beans from the shelf. Refill each can as soon as possible to keep the supply ready.
Freshen velvet by dipping a brush in damp sand and rubbing lightly. The slight moisture lifts dust and the sandy friction revives the nap on worn collars or cuffs.
A house agent notes interest but mentions two former tenants were drowned in the moat, warning a young married couple on a house hunt. The item adopts a Punch magazine style with a rumor of danger attached to the property.
Major Henry L. Higginson argues in Appleton's Magazine that the financial panic and current low mood will yield long term benefits. He cites strong crops, job stability, and improved efficiency as drivers of eventual recovery, with banking reform and a national central bank fostering currency flow and stability.
A trainer's special Alaska compound metal watch with a gold plated chain and a snail shell charm was lost about three miles northwest of West Chester between the homes of J. P. Dayton and W. A. Stewart. The finder will be rewarded if the watch and chain are returned to the loser or left with W. A. Stewart or W. A. Wallace. notice filed by W. E. Auten, R. F. D. 1.
The ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, claiming it cures by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer $100 to any case it fails to cure and urge sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio. pills also advertised for constipation.
Capt. R. P. Speer a prominent horticulturalist in Iowa died at his Waterloo township home at eighty. He served in the fifteenth general assembly and led the Iowa Horticultural society for four years as president. Speer also directed the Iowa Agricultural Experimental Station and was a longtime trustee of the Davenport Soldiers Orphans' Home. He fought in the war as captain of Company B, Thirty-first Iowa. B Humbert of Cedar Falls and G. D. Perkins of Sioux City Journal were fellow members.
No one is immune from kidney troubles. Foley's Kidney Cure will stop irregularities and cure kidney and bladder trouble not beyond medicine. Sold by all druggists.
Photographer T. F. Shannon claims the Trust Book and Credit company of Des Moines profits from a blacklist labeled as a criminal publication. He refuses to pay $15 for the book delivered, saying it harms credit and reputations. The case may go before the grand jury. similar books are published in many towns and cities.
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