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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1909
Page
7
The passage ponders agreeing on bad habits and the ease of making resolutions. It notes differences in wisdom, urges trusting friends, and advises keeping property in the wife’s name. It quips that some earners stay idle while others work, and reflects on self sufficiency and a bright young man with limited horizon.
A playful verse chides a tradesman for slow romantic methods and urges him to resume courting with ready money and traditional romance. It contrasts past successes with current loafing and urges genuine attention to the money question in courtship.
A cultured girl boasts she can both make a chair and paint a house inviting a young man to team up. He counters with plans to make a bed and paint the town, seeing a fortune in their combined utility, while others question the idea and wonder what their future holds.
A witty remark questions who counts as society worth knowing in New York with a quip about whether poodle dogs are included. The exchange hints at social snobbery and mounting amusement among readers.
A reflective passage questions how expressed distress is perceived as ego driven and urges restraint. It contrasts unsolicited sympathy with self restraint by a person feeling used as an emotional outlet in a close friendship.
The article outlines selecting seed from the earliest ripening plants and those with two or more perfect ears or long ears, saving the best at husking, and replanting from the best plots. It covers seed potatoes, beans, peas, squashes, melons, cucumbers, beets, cabbages, onions, celery, lettuce, and tomatoes, advising dry cool storage and separate seed plots if needed.
A practical cistern filter can be built from a sound oak barrel. Remove a head, bore holes, insert as a false bottom, add seven inches of gravel, six to seven inches of charcoal, then another gravel layer. Water flows in through the bottom, up through gravel and charcoal, out the top to the cistern, with a final sand fill and cheesecloth cap.
The article discusses how commercial manure under dry seasons is less effective than stable manure. It notes that growing multiple crops requires significant water, with the first crop often finding enough but the second lacking unless the soil is richly supplied with organic matter. It concludes that on a dairy farm manure can address these problems.
Hyomei made from eucalyptus is advertised as a strong antiseptic that destroys catarrh germs without harming membranes. Rinse through the inhaler four to five times daily to end discharge crusts and bad breath. Lemmon's pharmacy offers a money back guarantee after a fair trial. A complete Hyomei outfit costs 1.00 with extra bottles 50 cents. claims also include asthma croup sore throat coughs colds and grip treatment.
Advertises Midna for immediate relief from heartburn sour stomach stomach distress and sick headache. Offers money back if it fails and lists large box price of 50 cents at Lemmon’s Pharmacy.
C EF Wabnitz made a Monday business call at the Junction and J W Lemley offered National Light Oil for sale. Win Eyestone of Wellman visited yesterday, and Mrs Harve Porter of Ainsworth registered at the Rest Room. Frank Geisler left for a Missouri business trip, while A T Burris returned from Olathe Kansas. Father Walsh left for Pleasant Plain to officiate at a wedding yesterday. Frank Batterton and family occupy Mrs J P Babcock’s flat during her eastern trip. Cohn & Share advertise top prices for hides furs and junk using phone 387 Washington House. Twelve new chairs at F L Wilson shoe store improve space and comfort.
A doctor warns against harsh laxatives and promotes Rexall Orderlies as a pleasant safe cure for constipation and bowel disorders. The ad claims they do not purge or cause nausea and suit children and the elderly, offered at 25 cents for 36 tablets and 10 cents for 12 tablets by Cook & Sherman.
Two boys in Omaha Prospect Hill Cemetery secretly place flowers on a neglected baby's grave. They discuss right to flowers, defend their actions as mercy, and conclude it was not stealing. The piece urges trust in tender instinct and mercy over strict law.
In St Louis on January 26 thirteen members of the Belmont Pleasure club surrendered after a sixteen hour standoff with police. Officers could not breach due to only misdemeanor charges. cayenne pepper was blown through keyholes and up the chimney to compel exit.
Felix Kaiser, robbed last week, hanged himself in a barn south of Eau Claire. His body was found by two farm hands. E. Connelly is jailed on charges of robbing Kaiser.
Former Massachusetts state treasurer E P Shaw of Newburyport, a railroad financier, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition showing liabilities of 1 023 305 and assets of 275 765 The major liability is indorsed paper for the James F Shaw company totaling 661 738 held by sixty creditors.
The note explains chimney gas velocity at 600 feet per minute and that seventy square feet of belt surface per minute yields one horsepower. It claims a gram of radium could power a fifty horsepower car around the world at thirty miles an hour. It adds that photography reveals the invisible by exposing a dry gelatin plate to long durations to image stars beyond telescope reach.
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