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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1910
Page
3
A reflection on wealth and labor from 1909 reveals tired dishwashers and tired workers while the rich flash money yet fail to find happiness. It contrasts the treadmill of wealth with ordinary toil and imagines if the wealthy faced ordinary jobs.
A humorous collage features a dramatic First Actor firing a revolver with no effect and a remorseful Second Actor choosing death by prior agreement. Interludes include a puzzled young woman posing for a moving picture heroine, a Sunday school joke about a bad boy, and quips about distant in-laws and shaved heads.
A Chicago News quip cites a printer error turning the Bar of Hope into the Bar of Soap provoking laughter as constituents react. The anecdote contrasts a lawyer’s cautious style with a stenographer miscue that yields a comic line about a famed letter.
Readers learn of Hall's Catarrh Cure claimed to cure catarrh as a constitutional disease. Internal use supposedly heals blood and mucous surfaces, with a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and testimonials available from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Druggists sell the remedy and Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Bold ad promises to conquer a cold in one day using laxative Bromo Quinina tablets. Refund offered if it fails. Signature of Be B. Grove appears on each box. Price listed at 25 cents.
Chicago reports a nationwide campaign against bogus bucketshops launched by the Council of the Grain Exchanges of North America. The move targets fake brokerage houses with no real trades, estimating their annual running costs up to 30 million dollars and profits around 200 million, with some bucketshop firms becoming very wealthy.
In Washington on February 7 the National Style Show at Arlington features models matching ideal measurements: five feet seven to ten inches tall with a 36 inch bust 23 inch waist and 40 inch hips. Organized by the United Ladies' Tailors Association the event promotes American made goods with demonstrations and patrons including Mrs. Taft. About 4,000 people are expected.
In Cambridge Massachusetts Mary Kelleher is set to answer serious murder accusations. She is charged with poisoning family members and has been jailed in East Cambridge. Exhumations revealed arsenic traces in two bodies while Harvard Medical School tested viscera from two of her children.
Mayor Gaynor and other notables expected at the Emerald Society seventy second annual ball at the Waldorf Astoria tonight. Proceeds aid Catholic Orphan Asylum institutions. Shannon's Twenty third Regiment band to perform a medley of national airs at 9.00.
A persuasive ad urges families to keep Pape's Diapepsin for stomach distress. It claims digestion is instant, with five minute relief, cites symptoms like heartburn and nausea, and promotes a 50 cent case available at drug stores.
F W Maxwell tendered his resignation as Commercial club commissioner effective March 1 to accept the Colorado Manufacturers association post in Denver. He has led the club since 1892 and will be leaving amid ties to St. Joseph through his extensive social and fraternal memberships. A directors meeting will be held to act on the resignation.
A Washington D C father recounts his four year old son's rapid recovery from croup after using Hyomei purchased at a drugstore. He endorses the remedy, noting a full outfit costs one dollar and includes inhaler, with guarantees to cure catarrh coughs colds and sore throat.
Washington February 7 The President and Mrs Taft will be hosted tonight by the Postmaster General. Ten days hence the Secretary of the Interior and Mrs Ballinger will entertain the President and Mrs Taft. A week later the Secretary of Commerce and Mrs Nagel will close the cabinet dinner series.
Representatives in Chicago say farmers nationwide will organize to fight combinations of milk dealers. They allege that profits from higher milk prices go to dealers while producers gain none of the prosperity.
Guaranteed to cure itching bleeding prolapsing or bleeding piles in 6 to 14 days or money back. Advertises Paz0 ointment at 60 cents with refund offer.
Distinguishing church workers from Tennessee and across the South and East gather in Memphis for the Laymen's Missionary Movement meeting. The event starts with a banquet and a program of addresses this evening.
The candidate Minnie R Conner is presented as seeking the Republican nomination for County Superintendent, subject to primary election decisions in June 1910 and 1916. The notice emphasizes her candidacy and the party process governing the selection.
The Knecht tailor shop announces it will be open until March 1 for customers needing clothes. Call to have items altered or made before the deadline.
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