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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1904
Page
6
Reports describe widespread storm damage in Iowa with 27 telegraph poles down on Dublin road and destruction levels described as severe Tuesday and Wednesday. The item mentions a $100 reward for catarrh cures and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials, plus an advertisement for Mahara minstrel show featuring Prof Fountain B Wood and a high profile street parade.
Notice to pay water rents due January April July and October before the 15th to avoid a ten percent penalty and possible shutoff. Pay now at Water Works. St Clair Lewis Superintendent.
The Iowa Central runs a through tourist car to California each Wednesday with stops at Albert Lea Mason City Hampton Eldora Marshalltown Grinnell Oska 0088 and more, via Kansas City and the Santa Fe through New Mexico and Arizona, arriving Los Angeles the following Sunday morning. Fares include 75 cents from Albert Lea and 86.25 from Marshalltown. Contact A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis Minnesota for details.
An old newspaper ad touts Dr King s New Life Pils as a remedy for stomach and liver troubles. It claims relief and cure with a price of 26 cents at Stewart s Drug Store.
Bargerton Tenn family watched Mrs M L Bobbitt die from consumption despite expert care and remedies. Dr King s New Discovery brought relief after one bottle and, with continued use, a full cure. Guaranteed bottles 50c and 1.00 trial bottles free at Stewart s Drug Store.
A Dakota border husband posts a stark pine tree notice claiming his wife Sarah left him for no reason. He warns any man who cares for her on his account will be punished severely. The strange artifact includes misspellings and odd phrasing. Maud’s new photograph is praised as lovely.
Snippets of frontier humor and ripe banter unfold with Sambo and Trucker characters trading quips about eye injuries wishes money and housekeeping. The pieces capture rustic wit and social banter through brief exchanges and comic set pieces.
A fragment from the San Francisco Bulletin presents dialogue about a man shot in Utah, with a father and son exchange debating criminal status and legality. The text is a noisy, clipped dialogue reflecting wartime or crime rhetoric and public perception.
A fragment suggests Ile, a cherub and the firstborn, feels betrayed within a young household. The line hints at a fragile family dynamic and a coming of age theme.
A Washington Post account describes a mother scolding a nurse for a child’s presentation to a visitor. In haste she uses a towel to clean the baby, but leaves the nursery door ajar. A passerby downstairs hears the prattle and the exchange ends with the mother vowing to wash the child’s face despite company.
A Neodesha Register item notes Anadarko deacons seeking a pastor candidate and consulting a local lawyer. The lawyer praises the candidate as scholarly and eloquent, then adds with a wry aside that he is "as ugly as he is drunk." The piece also cites Arkansas rates for church notices and a string of sharp-edged classifieds about local reputations.
An open letter from Cook & Sherman, Druggists, touts Vinol as the best cod liver oil based tonic and strength creator. It claims Vinol contains no oil, supports digestion, blood enrichment, appetite, and general health, and offers a full refund if unsatisfied.
The Olaloosa Herald reports Officer Will Donnelly was off duty by permission and went to Washington yesterday. Some speculate he went to cultivate matrimonial interests and one claims he would bring home a blushing bride.
A Peoria sourced summary reports W. M. McKinley’s figures on building an interurban line. Right of way costs about 800 per mile, total cost per mile near 20 000 including engineering tracks and poles, power house and equipment. Interurban cars cost 7000 to 10000, sub stations 15000 each, powerhouse 225000 for eighty miles. Annual income about 3500 per mile with 85000 as fair profit. operating expenses 2500 to 3000 per mile. Rural areas provide only 7 percent of traffic with medium towns boosting feeders.
Abolt John H Bacon served as mayor for a term though not resident throughout it. A life long Republican, he was a delegate to the Grant nomination convention. He held wartime duties as provost marshal in Iowa earning the title Colonel. He belonged to the Masonic lodge before moving west and served four years as trustee of the Iowa State Agricultural College and as director and chief marshal of the Iowa State Agricultural Society.
Prof Tompkins will open his Dancing Academy in Swift s Hall this evening. Class at 8 15 assembly at 9 15 with music by an orchestra.
Miss Stella Savage departed this afternoon on the Milwaukee for her home near Rubio where she will spend Sunday.
A vivid description of a skee jumping contest from Country Life In America portrays a skiing event where participants speed down a long white slope and launch into air. The piece captures the rush, balance, and thrill as the jumper lands and regains footing, finishing victorious.
In a west end club a workman splashed red paint onto a member list for an upcoming house dinner erasing the first name. The next day the erased person was found dead at the club the night before the dinner, an omen likened to Shakespeare.
A teacher asks what a volcano is and a pupil answers with a simple fire within a mountain. The moment shows a child’s understanding as she wonders if it is a mountain range.
Mahara Brothers, famed for 16 years of minstrelsy and rag time, bring a palace car, 30 colored artists, new scenery and costumes to the opera house. Parade at noon prior to the show on Thursday January 28 with a collection of specialty acts and singers. A drug advertisement follows noting Bromo-Lax as a quinine free quick cure.
A letter from Philip Gehlbach of San Antonio Texas describes warm weather and comfort while Iowa faces rain snow ice and sleet. He plans deer and duck hunting and notes he and his wife are bathing at hot sulphur springs and drinking four glasses of the water every other day calling the water awful stuff to drink.
On the first and third Tuesdays of each month round trip excursion tickets are on sale to points in the west south and southwest at one fare plus two dollars with a 21 day return limit and stopovers allowed. One way settlers tickets are available at just over half the regular fares. Iowa Central offers through sleeping cars and free reclining chair cars. Contact agents or A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis for details.
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