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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1900
Page
2
Banks install adding machines to speed tallies and improve accuracy for daily sums. The piece urges public cooperation with township assessors to complete birth and death records under the new state code, highlighting records as essential for property claims and tax rolls.
The Iowa forecast notes increasing cloudiness with possible snow Tuesday in the extreme west. Tonight temperatures rise. A weather item in a Washington dispatch provides the outlook and cautions on regional conditions.
Keokuk Presbytery Young Peoples' Christian Union executive committee approved hosting the 19th and 20th of June convention in Keota after inviting by the United Presbyterian church. The plan outlines topics on youth work and a program, with committee members Miss Koble Rev Alter Mr Sprague and Miss Ella Dawson.
A historic medicine praised for curing incipient consumption and aiding advanced cases. If unsatisfied, return and get a refund. Priced 25, 50 cents and 1 dollar, available at J. H. Stewart's drugstore.
A reporter overhears a Commercial Traveller and a Droll Farmer debating the Rock Island train at the depot. The farmer asserts the train belongs to the Rock Island Railway company amid light humor and local banter. Also an ad notes Weeks Break-Up A Cold Tablets with a money back guarantee from Stewart's Pharmacy.
Purifies breath by acting on the bowels offering an absolute guarantee. Sold for years at J. H. Stewart's druggist for 25 or 50 cents.
Humboldt county grand jury investigates the death of Michael Chess, a former prominent farmer. He was treated at Independence asylum after mental decline, then released to his sister Mrs Frank Maklek. Inquest testimony alleged barbaric treatment. body exhumed showing pneumonia, inflamed stomach, and frostbitten toes from exposure.
The Shilohs Cough and Consumption Cure sold for 25 cts 50 cts and 1 00 offers a money back guarantee if it does not cure. Promoted as sold for over fifty years with the guarantee. Available at J H Stewart's drugstore.
A $200 reward is offered by Rev B Jacobsmeter and St James parish for information leading to finding the mother of the child or the person or persons who left the child at the Sisters of St James School on the morning of February 1 1900. Send tips to O E Brown Washington Iowa.
A young mother, Mrs. William Deam of Nora, Illinois, drank a vial of butter coloring saying she must atone for her baby's death. The infant had died soon after birth, and she believed suffocation caused it. She died later from the poison.
At Rock Island station stor age batteries move to the east room near Roadmaster Shields to strengthen wires. Lineman Dupuis installs a twenty one wire cable from Shields building to the depot operators office. Weather turns milder with ten below yesterday and sixteen above today. Memorial services for Rev. William C. Gupp draw large crowds at Elm Grove Cemetery with J G White G A R Post in attendance. The Breezy Time company performed at The Graham with W A White praised for his role. Presbyterian meetings begin Wednesday leading to Sunday Communion.
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