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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1929
Page
3
A dinner bridge party hosted by Mrs. Carol Ritchey at 606 West Main featured two tables set with pink and orchid décor, a three course dinner, and a high score prize for Helen Livingston. Guests included Virginia Droz, Jessie Kerr, Lois Brown, Dorothy Clark, Edith Carris, and Mason McLarin.
Monticello family doctor Dr Caldwell found women and children most often ill, mainly minor ailments such as colds and fevers. He created Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin in 1892, a mild laxative formula praised for safe use with babies and adults, selling in drug stores nationwide.
Local notes reveal a Friday night program at the Youn America schoolhouse with a supper and candy sale, Rebekah meetings, and religious services led by Mrs. W H Sartor. Other clubs plan Friday and Saturday gatherings at the high school and YMCA, inviting community participation and guests.
City authorities maintain a cadre of semi wild cats kept aboard ships to combat rat infestations. Descended from ordinary house cats, these felines now roam at night and on holidays, avoiding handling and preferring to hunt rats on docks where they patrol decks rather than feed on human-provided scraps.
Heirs of an early 18th century English grant holder press Trinity Church in New York for land rights tied to a vast estate. Disputes trace back to a 1730 grant and later leases to a prominent company, with about 125 heirs in Virginia and North Carolina joining. The initial suit faltered, but continuations seek broader recovery.
The Awakening film starring William Harlow Banky comes to Gra ham Theatre tonight with a musical accompaniment and a first American audience presentation of traditional OkRp songs. Filmed at Catalina Island the First Nickel feature includes Geraldine Harthelmess and Betty Compson in a story about a Donkin and a young couple amid a sea adventure.
Fort Madison Iowa February 1 UP The state penitentiary is crowded with 1170 inmates bunking in corridors as new arrivals outpace releases. Warden Hollowell said funding only covers feeding 950 inmates, and he is unsure if the legislature will address the overcrowding.
A fragmented exchange in stylized prose features a painter and a novelist discussing partnership and mutual use of talents. The dialogue hints at artistic collaboration, self reside, and a light social negotiation about illustrating novels.
The Daisy appears in many varieties and names such as trembling star and thousand charms. It is described as the Easter flower and an emblem of purity. The field daisy was brought from central Germany to feed English horses during the Revolution and at the Battle of Saratoga.
An unreadable OCR fragment mentions a Methodist church event with names such as Brian Alter and references to a meeting. The text is incomplete and lacks clear dates or actions.
An old advertisement touts a “pleasant tablet form” remedy to quickly rout colds and flu. It claims rapid relief in four to five hours using Crest snuffie style tablets, priced at about three cents, urging readers to act when a cold or flu nears.
The passage presents a garbled dialogue with a scheming secutor questioning a speaker about life, writing oneself out, and finding another means of earning. The text is damaged and reads as a tangled, incomplete exchange with unclear context and attribution.
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