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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1909
Page
3
Private sale at the home of F. F. Parrish lists furniture and household items for sale including walnut wardrobe oak bedroom suite bed springs iron bed mattress couch bureau carpet Alaska refrigerator flour bin and small articles. Inspections offered 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 26.
An advertisement offers a $100 reward for an incurable case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin, wholesale druggists of Toledo, and notes the cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. The ad lists price at 75 cents per bottle and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A social and bazaar will be held Tuesday evening February 23 at the northwest of the city home of Mr and Mrs Ezra Smith. Articles may be left with Mrs Thomas Berdo.
An advertisement touts Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as highly trusted. It lists F. L. Stolte and Lemmon's Pharmacy as retailers selling the medicine.
A testimonial from James Gray of Elwood Indiana claims Vinol cured his fourteen year old daughter of a severe cough weakness and emaciation after doctors failed. He praises Vinci as lifesaving and notes numerous similar cases of relief from chronic coughs colds bronchitis and general weakness. The ad promises a money back guarantee if Vinol does not help.
Hosea DeWitt of Olds and Chas Jaeger of Davenport were in the city on business, with Jaeger arriving from Oskaloosa. Dora Shoop visits Miss Ruth Clark in Washington, while Dr. A J Droz returns home, recovering. Jean Huysmans and wife with daughter plan to move to Washington and open a ladies tailor shop opposite the opera house by March 1.
An offer guarantees Rexall Orderlies cure constipation with regular use and directions. If unsatisfied, customers pay nothing. The laxative claim highlights an odorless tasteless active ingredient, non habit forming, easy to take, suitable for children and elderly, with two package sizes 36 tablets for 25c and 12 tablets for 10c from Cook & Sherman.
The turbine flyer Mauretania, nearing Ambrose channel lightship, established multiple ocean records. It broke its own long winter course record of 2,890 miles by two hours and twenty five minutes, surpassed Lusitania’s best time by one hour forty six minutes to four days seventeen hours fifty minutes, and achieved a daily run of 671 knots, the fastest twenty four hour sprint.
Washington D C February 19. Abraham Lincoln will appear on the new one cent pieces due in about a month. President Roosevelt has approved the plan and the Lincoln head will be that from a bronze medal by Victor B Brenner.
Springfield reports President T. J. Matthews of the Illinois Retail Hardware Association denounced mail order houses at the annual convention. He called them dangerous competitors and criticized their catalogs posing as jobbers. He warned they back a parcels post bill as their strongest weapon against country retailers.
In St. Louis Judge George Hitchcock awards Mrs William J Lemp Jr a divorce with alimony of 6000 dollars annually and custody of their son after a week long trial. The case involves the wife of the millionaire brewer William J Lemp Jr.
Illinois and Indiana expect rain then fair skies on Saturday. Lower Michigan also sees rain followed by a fair Saturday. Wisconsin and nearby towns report rain with warmer conditions and a fair Saturday.
Chicago grain and livestock quotes show winter wheat and spring wheat by sample with varying prices. Hog, cattle, and sheep receipts and price ranges are listed, along with live poultry and East Buffalo stock movements and Elgin butter market prices reflecting regional commodity activity.
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