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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1906
Page
3
Special to The Evening Journal reports fair weather for Iowa with a cooler Tuesday afternoon. Night will be fair with seasonal temperatures and light winds.
Local notices from Washington County Iowa record stock sales and arrivals on Friday and Saturday. Various residents, visitors, and relatives are listed including Alex Stephens stock sale, Miss Flora Hopengardner, Rev W R Stryker, Amy Folger, Stella Savage, Fred Bartholomew, J H Stewart raffles, and the death of Alex Knox. Community events include court terms and travel to Keota Fairfield West Chester and Des Moines.
D L Griffith departed for Fairfield to join Fulton and Shrady hardware merchants and plumbers as he accepts a new position. He plans to move his family there within a week or two.
A Iowa congressman famed for prohibition views received a pocketknife as a gift from a friend. His wife mocked him comparing his political career to a champagne opener, sparking widespread newspaper retellings and a reflection on public perception. The congressman later noted the quip helps both sides depending on the view.
A London Standard account recalls Musa the Moslem general who dyed his red beard black to mock vanity. His captains mocked him, he was scourged, and the caliph recalled him, denying Moslem forces a decisive victory at Tours. Historians note his absence altered European fate.
The earliest knitting machine was created by William Lee who applied for a patent in England in 158. After patent refusal he moved to France and built a large factory at Rouen. The Lee machine persisted for two centuries and entered the colonies during the Revolutionary War with a Yankee improvement leading to the first U S stocking factory at Coboes New York in 1832.
The article notes 1772 court ruling that slavery violated English law, yet earlier sales occurred in England including a Birmingham ad for a slave boy and a Richmond sale of a boy for £32, possibly the last in England. It also recalls Cromwell and Monmouth era slave trades and profits by court ladies, plus modern frustration over Roosevelt communications in a money scandal.
An 1880s classified style notice offers one hundred dollar reward for cure of catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy. It includes testimonials and asserts F J Cheney Co of Toledo stands by the firm Kinnan and Marvio as wholesale druggists. It claims benefit through blood and mucous surfaces and notes price at 75 cents a bottle.
Mrs Mollie Holt of Woodford Tennessee, age 80, was said to be near death after coughing up pus from her lungs. Doctors considered her end near but after Dr Kings New Discovery was administered she improved rapidly and fully recovered becoming a healthy woman. Trial bottle available at J Stewart's Drugstore.
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