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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1906
Page
3
Forecast for Iowa calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday. No significant storm activity expected with light winds and stable temperatures across the state.
Miss Ora Henderson visited Ainsworth for the Fourth and left Tuesday night. Numerous social notes report visits by Rev Barnes in Upper Lawn conference, Will Montgomery from Washington IA, Mrs Eva Nicola and children heading to Kansas, and other listed local travels. Baseball events, marriages, elopements, and community updates fill the page with multiple city sightings and society items.
The article surveys sleep postures across species from monkeys to elephants and apes at Forepaugh-Sells menagerie, noting fear, security, and vocal needs in captivity. It also touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy and promotes the Forepaugh-Sells show coming Saturday with winter additions.
Harve Wilson left yesterday for his home in Canada with ten horses intended for use on his Canada farm. He notes Canadian crops look promising this year and, though products and work distribution differ, there is always plenty to do on the farm.
The Forepaugh Sells circus performers will play the local first nine o’clock game of baseball Saturday afternoon on the 8 EB ball park after the afternoon performance. The game will begin at about 4 30 o'clock. Admission will be twenty five cents.
A gasoline tank exploded at the Riverside plant Saturday at four in the afternoon. Frans Wroll, the caretaker, sustained burns to his arms and face but not seriously. The blast blew off the roof yet caused little other damage. a tank leak caused the explosion.
The Sigourney team travels to Washington to play baseball on Tuesday July 10. The game starts at 2 30 p m in Washington with admission priced at 25 cents. A fine contest is promised.
An alarming situation from neglected bowels and a torpid liver leads to chronic constipation. Dr King's New Life Pills are presented as the best and gentlest regulators of stomach and bowels. Guaranteed by Stewart druggist. Price 25c.
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