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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1908
Page
3
A miscellany of short reeds of advice and wry humor. It notes how to restore soft hairbrushes with alum water and includes quips about offers dress and eccentricity. The passages feature a disapproving mother and a playwright teased by a friend over a kiss and a ticket.
In Boston on February 20 physicians split over Cooper's preparations. Some credit his remedies for liver kidney and stomach relief while others call the mania a passing hallucination. Cooper denies concern and continues to meet thousands daily while his charitable work expands.
Tickets for the Kellogg Haines Company concert go on sale at Lemmon’s Pharmacy Monday February 24 with price levels 10 and 35 cents. The Graham Opera House hosts the event on February 29, promising a notable turnout.
Fraternal Riders Council 250 F A A announces a called meeting for Saturday evening February 22 at 7 30 with special business and balloting. Full attendance requested by Cora Hays president and Ida M Ward secretary. Also included is an advertisement for Dr King s New Discovery with testimonials and pricing for Stewart s Pharmacy.
Benjamin Oskrud, sixteen, of Odessa, Russia, arrives in the U S for the seventh time after prior deportations as a stowaway. His uncle Hyman Trost in New York temporarily takes charge, but Ellis Island may deport him again. An appeal to another guardian in Pittsburgh is sought to secure support.
Justice Platzek in the New York state supreme court appointed temporary receivers for the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance company on the attorney general's application. The firm is already under receivership by a United States court upon a policyholders committee request, with Joseph J. O Donohue and Joseph T P Day named as Platzek's appointees.
Colorado Springs reports Ot to Fehringer a druggist and liquor wholesaler was slugged shot and robbed three miles northwest of the city after being lured to the spot by an unknown man. The thief took a diamond stud and ring worth 1000 dollars a roll of bills and checks totaling 600 dollars and a gold watch with diamond setting.
Hundreds of girls employed at the Thomas Henry & Sona mill on Trenton avenue and Tioga street were driven from their work when a fire consumed the large hosiery mill in Philadelphia. About twenty girls were overcome by smoke but recovered on the street. Loss estimated at $150,000.
The forecast covers Illinois and Lower Michigan fair with no temperature change. Indiana and Wisconsin also fair with no change. Iowa expects fair skies and warmer conditions.
Chicago Board of Trade quotations show mixed grain and livestock pricing with wheat at May 92 93 cents, corn around 59 cents, oats near 52 49, and pork and beef futures ranging in the upper 11 dollar region. Cash and live stock listings from East Buffalo reflect slow cattle demand, strong hogs, and varying lamb prices across the market with notable volume in receipts for cattle hogs and sheep.
The Gingerbread Man musical fantasy with Jeane Palmer Lillian Mattese Rose Murry and others opens at the opera house on February 25. Libretto by the late Frederick Rankin with music by A Baldwin Stone follows the tale of Princess Sugar Plum transformed by Fudge into a confectionery sales girl who falls for Jack Horner and must win her again.
Mr and Mrs S B Dewey from Washington Iowa arrived yesterday for a short visit with relatives and friends in the city.
M. Z. Steinmetz returned to Ainsworth last evening after a brief business trip. He and his family are preparing to move on the Joe Hay farm located west of the city. Farm Loans Morrison. 4tlo.
Weather forecast for Iowa indicates fair and cool conditions. Tonight and Saturday will be fair with cooler temperatures especially in the northeast portion tonight.
The Sherman Stock company offered The Way of the World to an audience that left well pleased. The cast, led by Fred Hubbard as Billy Hopkins and Blanch Epley as Cinders, delivered solid comedy and strong villainy with Frederick Ruff earning special mention. Tonight the company features East Lynne. Mr. and Mrs. W. Roberts and daughter Beula visited Cotter Band concert yesterday.
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