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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1907
Page
8
An advertisement touts Dr Edward’s Compound Dandelion Pills as a pure vegetable remedy for impure blood and related conditions such as eczema pimples and anaemia. It promotes getting a box and lists I A and D Co serving Wellsville New York as sales agents.
A collection of satirical lines on power class privilege and gender roles. Observations touch on national identity, fashion influence in politics, lobster and salad as metaphors, dogs as status symbols, gossip as opinion fuel, and post holiday financial regrets. The tone is wry and ironic about public life and private foibles.
A brief exchange unfolds with a beggar lamenting loss of kin, only to reveal a twist that others are rich. The scene echoes the tone of Woman's Home Companion in a compact newspaper-style moment.
Mrs Milo Keep, whose ex husband is serving life in Jackson prison for murder, married William Neep two years ago. Neep was a brother of Milo Keep, who two years earlier killed Ab bot Miller over attentions Miller paid to his wife. At the trial William testified against his brother.
In Jedford Indiana a man named Arley Fields and his wife and mother were trapped as Salt Creek overflowed. He carried both women on his back through fifteen feet of water to safety before rescuers arrived. The trio were nearly unconscious upon rescue.
Jackson Mich January 14 John FR Gibbons of Waterloo township bequeaths seventeen thousand dollars to Albion College. The fund will be known as the John and Thidella Gibbons fund and the interest is to be used for expenses of such worthy students as the president may direct.
A verse laden meditation on poverty and financial struggle. The speaker faces empty pockets, rent demands, hollow flour bins, and meager meals, sensing hardship as winter nears and all signs point to scarcity. The piece paints a grim portrait of surviving with little to spare.
Albert B. Cummins outlines corporate charter controls, stock valuation, and annual franchise taxes. He calls for primary elections, municipal reform, civil service, and stricter food and insurance regulation, plus rosters of Iowa soldiers and a street inheritance tax.
Fortadi son Iowa dealer Mr August Sherpe praises Dr King’s New Life Pills as the best laxative, promising they act more agreeably and do more good than any other product. Guaranteed to cure obviousness and constipation. 25 cents a bottle.
An attempt to wreck the Clinton line passenger train on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad occurred three miles south of Lowry City at thirty mph. A planted tie across the track derailed the engine and baggage car after striking a guard rail. Engineer Frank Silvers is singled out as the target of these repeated attacks. Bloodhounds were brought in to trace the wreckers.
A 17 year old Italian highwayman snatched $340 from Margaret Hoff 18 months old on Bond Street near the German Exchange Bank Bowery as she walked to the shop. A crowd pursued the robber toward Broadway where a patrolman tripped him and arrested him. The wallet fell into a gutter and the girl recovered it, crying in the rain.
Joliet Illinois January 14. Robert L Allen a manager of the Economy Light and Power company is dead at age fifty. He served as Joliet postmaster under Cleveland warden of the Illinois state penitentiary under Altgeld and was secretary of the Washington Park club in Chicago. He was active in Democratic politics and represented his party in state and national conventions.
The Oregon Supreme Court suspended ex Judge H Tanner from law practice for ninety days citing unprofessional conduct in false sworn statements about his relations with late US Senator John H Mitchell. Mitigating circumstances influenced the ruling. Buying British Tin Mines reported from London says a US syndicate is purchasing key Cornwall tin mines and an agent has been in Penzance negotiating with owners.
One of the worst features of kidney trouble is its insidious nature and potential to become fatal before awareness. Take Foley's Kidney Cure at the first sign of trouble as it corrects irregularities and helps prevent Bright's disease and diabetes. Sold by all druggists.
A local ad highlights bananas oranges apples white grapes figs dates and other fruits with an excellent line of fresh candies and tobaccos for customers.
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