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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 17, 1907

Page

6

Chautauqua Campers Asked to Choose Tent Types

Campers at Chautauqua urged to notify Isaac McKenry or the grounds secretary with their tent preferences and whether they own tents. Deadline for information is July 25 and notices extend to owners to aid ordering.

Isaac McKenry Frank Stewart W. A. Row

Lost Doll Returns for Phyllis Summer Visit

In a seaside tale Phyllis loses her doll Flora Louise after a window accident. The doll is found later by the summer girl, re-dressed and placed on a bedstead with a note from the Winter Boy and Girl explaining the playful caper and the doll’s new name Gertrude.

Gertrude S'Prise Phyllis Papa Graham Flora Louise

Lost dolly Flora Louise becomes Gertrude Graham at seaside cottage

In a coastal tale, Katharine and Lynn discover a forgotten dolly on a veranda roof. They rename her Gertrude and plan to reunite her with her owners Flora Louise and family, hoping to return her next winter if the couple returns.

Papa Graham Flora Louise Phyllis Mamma Papa Baby Lou Dolly Lynn Katharine Gertrude Mother Precious Dolly Flora Louise Gertrude Graham

Boyhood Bluff Ends With Father’s Vow of Trouble

A remote schoolboy Michael boasted the master feared him. After a flogging for misbehavior, he returned home enraged and asked his father about the promise of trouble. The father confirms and prepares to act, signaling a looming confrontation over the punishment.

Michael

Pittsburg Girl Trains Greyhounds Into a Tiny Driving Team

White, a Pittsburg girl, trained two greyhounds from about two months old. She made blankets, joined them to form a harness, and created a miniature buggy. The dogs soon trotted together and became a swift, desirable driving pair under her care.

Fairy story attribution echoes from Boston Traveler

A teacher asks a student who wrote the fairy story just read, the reply hints it might be "one of pop's" contributing to a Boston Traveler phrasing about familiar, homegrown authors.

Boston Traveler

Love equality like a level U tube in passion

A quoted aphorism by Austin O'Malley on love and balance. It asserts true love requires mutual feeling, warns that one sided physical attraction lacks real love, and contrasts fiction with genuine partnership.

Austin O'Malley

The Doctor Away From Home When Most Needed

A public notice promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential at home for cramp colic and cholera morbus. It urges readers to keep a bottle in case doctors are unavailable and claims the medicine may save life. Sold by Cook and Sherman.

S. S THE Swift Specific CO Atlanta Cook Sherman

Ambiguous Wordplay Between Wood and Hood Lovers

A fragmentary puzzle text describes a repetitive scene where A. Wood and C. Hood engage in playful meeting in a wood and hood. The rhythm centers on wooing and sighting each other, with recurring phrases about seeing in a hood and a wood.

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