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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1911
Page
2
Dublin notes report William Stevenson passing through the berg and local visits, with multiple updates on illness including grippe and tonsillitis among residents. Social events, trips, and church meetings are outlined along with various homely movements in West Chester Lexington and surrounding areas.
Local tidbits from Kalona and Richmond report visits by residents and visitors to Lone Tree Iowa City and Riverside, social dinners, church events, and health concerns. Notables include Mr Frank Lashek and Mrs Charles Horsovsky visits, Teresa Frank's Iowa City trip, and measles cases in town alongside several business and family visits.
A. H. L. Richardson of the Keota Eagle is an inmate at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City for a rheumatic eye condition. doctor Dean believes sight can be cured. Rose Goeldner spent Monday in Washington visiting Mrs. D. J. Norton, bound for the east. Charles Coffman visits from Nebraska. Arthur Turner left for Worthington Minnesota after visiting Seydels and Lindauers. Mrs. Chris Brollier returns to Richland then Keota to care for her ailing mother, Mrs. O. B. Jones. Mary Skinner and Clara Lyle travel to Marion Illinois after sister-in-law Mrs. John Skinner’s illness and death. Nora Warner arrives from Des Moines to visit daughter Cecelia. Newin King of Colorado visits to assist family after aunt Miss Florelia King’s death. Mrs. Sanford Shaff convalescent after pneumonia.
The Pythian Sisters held a pleasant social last Thursday with initiations for Pearl Warrington Lorena Carris and Verva Sanders and refreshments served. Evangelistic meetings continue at the Methodist church with a strong orchestra and a 25 voice chorus under KB A Hulse. Rev J F Robertson will be joined by Rev F C Edwards later in the week. A cottage prayer meeting is set for Wednesday at David Keiser’s home at two. Mrs Clara Hoyt sold household goods and plans to move to Des Moines. A Keota group attended an Knights of Columbus event in Harper. A A Hulse has recovered and is back at his cash store.
A meeting of the Commercial club is scheduled for this evening at 8 o'clock. The board of directors will convene at 7:30.
A proposal envisions a residence in California for celebrated writers and thinkers. Meanwhile a Reno boxing match is recalled as a notable but faulty moment in talent’s career.
A renowned mountain guide who is unnamed in the London Mall tale led a party over a perilous Alpine pass. While the rope tethering the climbers slid toward a deadly chasm, he realized no one could survive with his weight. He drew his knife, released the rope, and fell to ensure the others could escape, dying as a hero.
George Dyer the absent minded scholar of Clifford's Inn is famed for a Colbrooke Row episode with Elia and Lamb aiding his revival with hot brandy. He knew Leigh Hunt and Lamb, and once found breakfast with none of the expected comforts.
A terse aphorism from Thomas a Kempis on duty and restraint. It urges performing the necessary tasks even when unpleasant and withholding actions one desires but should not take. The balance between obligation and restraint remains a timeless guide.
Advert for Chamberlains Cough Remedy claims it wards off croup when cough first appears and prevents danger. Notes thousands of mothers use it effectively and that Lemmons Pharmacy sells the product.
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