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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
5
Special to the Evening Journal reports the Iowa forecast for today and tomorrow. Partly cloudy conditions with probable showers tonight or Friday.
Letters from G. R. Parkinson say Mrs. Parkinson and Mrs. R. H. Lee are recovering from injuries after a June 26 Yosemite valley stage accident. The women were trapped beneath the overturned stage. Mrs. Parkinson broke an ankle and Mrs. Lee fractured a rib with other injuries. They were treated at the valley military hospital and show daily improvement.
The Oklahoma Indians travel to face the local team in a scheduled baseball game. Weather is clearing and prospects for a strong contest look favorable after the visitors arrived last night on the number two train.
John Skipton ships nine head of horses to Ottumwa. The shipment details appear in the notice with a terse transportation action and destination. The brief item records the livestock move to Ottumwa.
A town heated by rival claims over the best cook stove coal. Merchants invite comparison and promise proof of superiority with demonstrations and testimonials from residents and shopkeepers alike.
The Rev. J. F. Robertson returned from Wellman after district convention. Howard Stewart spent Tuesday in West Chester at the Hugh Crayne home. Roland Neal and his wife and babe left for Washington to visit the Tennis Hunter home before going to Ep worth Iowa to visit Mrs. Neal's parents. B. L. Sanders O. K Stoutner and Warren Stewart travel to Garden City Kansas to look after land interests. Mr and Mrs Chris Hetzel return to Muscatine after visiting daughter Mrs J N Reinert.
July reports Mina McCleary returning home from school duties near Rubio. Local passengers to Washington include Mr. and Mrs. John Lee F Maxwell Milan Shields and Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Twinam. H D Cherryholmes returns from Chicago business trip. Mrs W McLaughlin and son Charles visit H Manners home in Washington.
The last general assembly authorized counties to tax themselves to build county sanitariums for tuberculosis treatment. Home care shows promise, and climate changes are not always beneficial or affordable for patients. Iowa counties likely to use the new right to wage a more effective war on the white plague.
P E Herrington of Mount Aerial Kentucky praises Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the best and surest cure his family has used. The remedy is said to give prompt, reliable results and is widely recommended by users. Sold by F L Stolte and Lemmon's Pharmacy.
The article recounts Wagner's 1858 London visit. After a first Philharmonic concert critics blamed him for conducting Beethoven without the score. At the second concert he used a partition on his desk and consulted it, while the critics noted improvement. The supposed score was Rossini’s Barbier de Seville.
Miss Agnes Coffelt arrived last evening from Xenia Ohio after staying with Rev and Mrs Mills Taylor. Her visit highlights a brief stay with the local household and a return trip noted by the community.
Des Moines July report by Wesley Greene of the state horticultural society warns fire blight fungus threatens most fruit trees due to excessive moisture. He notes significant drops in estimated yields for summer and winter apples, pears, plums, peaches, and berries while blackberries and grapes show improved prospects.
Miss Jane Mason arrived from England four days earlier to wed Thomas Wadsworth a resident here. The wedding followed a seven year arranged betrothal and was followed by a large reception for the newlyweds.
The Liverpool Post describes a period when Isle of Man trade flourished after the Napoleonic wars and private notes circulated freely. Traders, from top to humble, issued card promises to pay in values like 5 shillings, a shilling, and sixpence, creating a chaotic system later challenged by a £350 judgment collecting with 2,704 notes carried in a sack slung on a horse casing half spoiled by a soaking saddle.
A step by step bread dough method uses three cups boiling water one cup oatmeal one teaspoon salt butter sugar and yeast mixed with flour to form a stiff dough. After overnight rising bake in gem pans twenty minutes or until brown.
Delegates at the National Education association heard sharp criticisms of rural teachers. Henry G. Williams of Athens Ohio lampooned rural instructors who lack basic education yet are called professors. James W. Robertson urged closer links between agricultural and rural schools to keep boys on the farm, stressing equal education for girls. J Y Joyner announced as a presidential candidate opposing Blewett and Phillips.
Iowa Elks head west to the national convention in Los Angeles with a heavyweight train of twenty four cars. Ottumwa and Davenport delegations join a statewide caravan, spending time in Council Bluffs enjoying the Elks club house city tours and gatherings.
Naivasha in British East Africa reports the Roosevelt expedition enjoying successful hunting. Theodore Roosevelt has killed a maned lion, a lioness, and four rhinoceros. Kermit Roosevelt also secured game and both parties claimed many other species. They proceed to Captain Atterborough's farm near Naivasha Lake to launch for hippopotamus hunting.
Havana reports President Gomez signed the national lottery bill into law. the act establishes a state lottery to fund public programs and government projects.
Nathan Straus presents American findings to the international tuberculosis conference in Stockholm. The report ties bovine tuberculosis to human cases, especially among children, urging pasteurization or tuberculin testing of milk from cows to prevent infection. Delegates include Dr. John C. Wise and others from the United States.
The article notes that bad drinking water is a common sickness cause, especially where shallow wells supply most water. It highlights diarrhoea as prevalent and Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in demand to stop attacks and prevent serious outcomes, sold by F. L.
A Benton street bridge over Indian creek collapsed in the flood. The structure was the citys widest bridge at sixty feet spanning over a hundred feet. Water spread to 100 homes north of the motor company tracks and west of Seventeenth street, leaving them surrounded.
ZEMO marketed as instant relief and permanent cure for eczema and itching skin diseases by The McElhinney Drug Co. sample requests shown with cures. A separate real estate sale reports George H. Paul selling his corner store and apartment building at Sixth Avenue and North Street to A J Augustine for 15500 with sixty six foot frontage as an investment in Des Moines.
New ebony handles for men’s umbrellas combine style and durability. Suitcase styles start at 5.00. H. F. Steck, the Jeweler, advertises these serviceable upgrades.
A New York normal school exam asked what is the educational value of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. A would be teacher answered that it teaches children to be kind to animals, especially rats.
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