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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1908
Page
7
The largest hog ever shipped from Rock Island yards was sent Saturday morning. Raised by Jos Marek it weighed 930 pounds. Marek also sent a load of twenty cattle averaging 1550 pounds. Samuel McCleery shipped seven roads totaling 138 cattle averaging 1450 pounds. The hog was noted as one of the finest specimens in the region.
The sunction of the kidneys is to strain out the impurities of the blood which is constantly passing through them. Foley's Kidney Remedy makes the kidneys healthy. They will strain out all waste mat ter from the blood. Take Foley's Kidney Remedy and it will make you well.
Mrs Eva K Nicola of Washington Iowa arrived Thursday for a visit with her brother H McMillan at his home in town in a brief Burlington Evening Gazette item dated July 11.
A long Thanksgiving tale follows Stuffy Pete, a fed man who sits with an old gentleman at Union Square for nine years. The pair surrender to a feast at a Fifth Avenue mansion restaurant, once again proving traditions can shape a city’s identity as they share meals and farewells.
Sporting notes mention a potential race between Sonoma Girl 2 05 and George G 2500544 to be decided at Readville under Jim McGuire Boston club manager who will also captain the team Bob Unglaub led last year Harry Blake to manage a Texas league team this season Gotch aims to meet Hackenschmidt early this summer and plans to retire win or lose from wrestling This year’s athletic training from ocean to ocean is set to mark a peak in American sports history with far reaching effects on the national standard
Rev F A Bright of Waynesburg Pa broke his leg in a church fall and had it set after the service. Rev Dr C F Aked of New York and John D Rockefeller’s pastor remains ill and may not return to the pulpit. For St Pauls Cathedral London a cement grout under pressure is proposed to stabilize the dome and tower. Rev Father D S Phelan of St Louis plans an extended trip abroad after Easter to study Catholic questions and visit the pope.
Over six years 199 grade crossings west of Pittsburg and 568 east of Pittsburg were removed on Pennsylvania lines. The Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes railroad was organized at Gardiner Missouri with stock of 241 600 to take over narrow gauge lines there. Venezuela has thirteen railroads. the longest is 111 miles and most roads are under fifty. Most run from the sea into the mountains with steep grades. one road has a grade of 449 feet per mile.
Selim Smith of New Auburn Wisconsin reports a hen laying a three yolk egg daily for a week, eggs as large as goose eggs. Grace Simmons of New Kensington Pennsylvania keeps a pallet that visits each morning and deposits its egg in a nest. Ezra W. Perkins of Montclair New Jersey says a dog found a road basket of provisions, carried home a fifteen pound turkey, then selected porterhouse steaks for its owner.
Rev W H Salimon president of Carleton College resigns effective next July. J F Sharp rises from janitor to president of Southwest State Normal School Weatherford. Andrew Carnegie pledges 50000 dollars to Morgan College Baltimore if trustees raise 50000 more. Morgan College founded forty years ago.
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