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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 11, 1905

Page

2

Iowa Crop Bulletin Details Week of Weather Impact

Des Moines reports a weekly average 4 to 6 degrees below normal with rainfall above needs. Field work advanced in late week. corn cultivation, haymaking, and harvesting of winter wheat rye barley and early oats progress. Clover damage noted, large acreage remaining for cutting. hay crop expected to reach full average. Southern districts harvest early oats fall rye and wheat. rust damage limited. corn stands, height and cleanliness exceed last year. southern apples poor, especially late varieties.

Des Moines Iowa

Matrimonial Club Formed in Manitou Oklahoma

In Manitou Oklahoma seventy five men form a club for matrimonial purposes. A local paper advertised WANTED kitchen mechanics and artists for Comanche and Kiowa counties. Female applicants 16 to 36 and widows under 65 preferred. Travel paid to point then refunded after contract. Applicants must be good butter makers tidy and pleasant looking for photographs. Over 150 bachelors and widowers live within ten miles with home stead claims.

Lawton Okla Manitou Comanche Kiowa

Persing and Mrs Pratt arraigned in poisoning case

William Persing and Mrs Pratt were arraigned before Justice Lennant for the poisoning of Cyrus Pratt. A preliminary exam Saturday found sufficient evidence to bind both to the grand jury, which meets September 1. Bond set at 2500. Pratt to post, Persing remanded. It is alleged Persing confessed Mrs Pratt declared she loved him and could not live without him.

Rockwell City William Persing

Al Hardin Dies on Base During Altoona Baseball Game

Al Hardin, longtime Muscatine and Wilton resident, collapsed and died at first base during a heated Altoona game Sunday. A former Muscatine Maroons second baseman and occasional shortstop, he also served as night telegraph operator in Wilton. Further details remain unavailable.

Muscrtime Iowa al Hardin Wilton Altoona Muscatine Maroons

Switches Made From Combings and Cut Hair

I clean switches and make items from combings and cut hair. I invite all old customers and many new ones to visit. Mrs. Jas. Warnock, 6438 Ave. C. 19 10t

Jas. Warnock Ave. C

Bucklen's Arnica Salve Cited For Lip Sore Cure

Concord Kentucky man K F Leek says a twenty year sore on his upper lip healed after using Bucklen's Arnica Salve. He claims it ended pain that prevented eating and notes the product also helps burns cuts and wounds at J H Stewarts drug store for 25 cents.

K. F. Leek Concord Bucklen J. H. Stewart

Will Remarry His Wife After Divorcing Over Property Sale

Sioux City July 11. Thomas Melham secured a divorce while his wife is in Europe so he could sell property to the Great Northern railway at a high price. He will remarry upon her return, but she refused to come home to sign the deeds. The railroad hurry led to the desertion-based divorce.

Sioux City Thomas Melham Europe Great Northern Railway

Waterlooo Population Surges in Five-Year Census

Waterloo Iowa reaches 18 052 residents up 5 472 since 1920 a 45 percent rise. Officials call this the record increase of the last five years reflecting rapid growth in the city.

Waterloo Iowa

Death of R M Dihel Noted in Kansas City Area

Word arrived of the death Sunday of R M Dihel formerly of this city and later a resident of Chetopa Kansas He died in Chetopa at age 60 he was an old soldier church member temperance worker and a fluent writer Survived by wife and two adopted children Minnie Reide Canada and Charles Anderson Wichita The deceased had many local friends who expected a visit during Chautauqua next month

R. M. Dihel Chetopa Kansas Dihel Sunbeam Ilc United Presbyterian Church Temperance Minnie Reide Canada Charles Anderson Wichita

Leap to death in East Forty fourth fire claims Neely life

Arthur Neely of Chicago died after leaping from the fourth floor of a burning building on East Forty fourth street in New York. Fr Tennyson Neely, publisher, watched his brother fall to the sidewalk as firemen prepared ladders. Arthur left behind three children and a widow who was a railroad wreck survivor.

New York Arthur Neely Chicago East Forty-fourth Street Tennyson Neely Neely JF. Tennyson Neely Arthur

Death Threat Reported in Wyoming Slaying Case

Thermopolis area in Wyoming reports Bob McCoy a well known cattleman was murdered with a back shot in a deserted cabin. His body weighted with stones and sunk in the Big Horn river. Anonymous letters warned him to leave the country and promised ear removal as proof. One ear is missing. In Denver Epworth League wins banner for largest delegate registration to the Illinois society convention.

Cheyenne Wyo Thermopolis Bob” McCoy Big Horn River McCoy Denver Epworth League of Ilinois Iowa Rocky Mountains

Cholera Infantum Cure Attributed To Chamberlains Remedy

Ruth, daughter of EB N Dewey of Agnewville Virginia, suffered cholera infantum last summer and was near death within hours. After giving Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy the child improved in five hours and fully recovered after consuming part of a small bottle. Sold by Stewart Pharmacy Cook Sherman.

Chamberlain Ruth EB. N. Dewey Agnewville Stewart’ Pharmacy Cook & Sherman

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