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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1909
Page
2
N. 8 8 8. W. J. Crozier left for Muscatine to spend the day. J. M. Wilson rode to Ottumwa for the day. Miss Fannie Shelton started for Oskaloosa to spend the winter there. Mrs. W. D. Marbourg left for Packwood to stay a week.
Foley's Honey and Tar is touted as a quick cure for la grippe coughs that may become pneumonia overnight. Lemmon's Pharmacy promotes the remedy. C. E. Dayton traveled to Brighton this morning with Miss Alma Dayton, who visited locally before returning home.
At the State Historical Society of Iowa meeting on January 6, Prof. John Brindley was named Research Assistant while preparing a two volume History of Taxation in Iowa. The board also elected notable members including Albert B. Cummins and A F Dawson and approved a draft bill for a $5,000 increase in permanent annual support.
In Des Moines on January 11, coroner reports that Dean Frederick Howard of Drake University Conservatory of Music died from morphine poisoning rather than acute gastritis. Coroner Newlen will continue the investigation to uncover exact death circumstances after the doctor’s report. Howard, a leading West musician and former head of Drake conservatory, had fallen ill after a hearty meal with friends. Dr. D C Rice attended him. he improved briefly before dying.
In Ottumwa Iowa Jan 11 the first human glanders case, treated by local doctors, proved fatal. The patient Marion Lord from Frisco Missouri died at the isolation hospital after being cared for away from home. His parents were informed and the body will be sent to Warsaw Missouri for burial.
Fred Naeve Judge Wade and Mark A Walsh issue letters of regret to named parties.
A Washington advertisement outlines post mortem findings linking dyspepsia to consumption and urges trying Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets by Cook & Sherman. The 25 cent box is claimed to last fifteen days and the remedy is guaranteed to cure indigestion or be free.
Laura Ashworth and George Hunt of Denver Iowa married in the countryside near Waterloo as the temperature dropped to 10 below zero. Reverend Schonebaum officiated after a license was obtained in Black Hawk County to validate the ceremony across the county line. The groom runs a Denver restaurant.
At a Jackson banquet of local Democrats Rev. B Prest on, pastor of the First Congregational church, lambasted the Iowa mulch law as false and pernicious and urged local option. Hon. M. W. Gannon of Davenport delivered the principal address with applause.
The county recorder reports 1751 instruments filed in 1908, up from 1688 in 1907, with the 1908 mix indicating more of a certain class of documents. The notice then shifts to a medical ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure touting a cure and a money-back promise, followed by an herbal-like pill recommendation.
The Rev. Father Walsh received a telegram from the Rev. Father Grothe of Harper announcing the death of Grothe’s father aged eighty six. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o clock in Harper. The deceased’s wife died about a year ago.
Miss Viola Todd of Seymour leaves the Allen Chance home after a two weeks visit in the city and returns home this morning.
Guaranteed to cure any case of itching bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. Price 60 cents.
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