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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1905
Page
6
W H Warner and Company call a regular gathering tomorrow night to discuss business of importance. Attendance is encouraged for stakeholders and staff.
A stream of short notes lists residents and visitors in Ainsworth and nearby towns including Ottumwa Iowa City and Crawfordsville with departures to Cedar Rapids Winfield Oskaloosa Lone Tree and Washington. Several families and individuals are noted visiting or traveling, alongside a long paragraph on the Isthmian Canal Commission’s growing labor force and housing needs during the Culebra excavation.
Chief Engineer John F. Wallace of the Isthmian Canal Commission explains in Harper's Weekly that the past nine months focused on preparatory work. Surveying across the isthmus, rechecking French data, tracing streams and river discharge, boring for dam foundations, and mapping geology prepare for major future construction. Pooled labor totals 5,000, including 700 Americans and 1,100 native artisans, with Jamaica blacks and Central American workers among the skilled and unskilled labor.
A Baltimore American piece depicts a butcher overcharging a customer by selling a larger roast than asked. The narrator questions the butcher’s weight sense and notes the greasy environment as shaping the man’s behavior. The passage ends with a moral about playing away from such influence.
Advertisement claims deafness from inflamed Eustachian tube mucous membrane can be cured only by constitutional remedies. Offers $100 for any case of catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. mentions procedures, circulars, and Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Iowa Central Railway announces daily summer round trip tickets at one fare two dollars to northern Minnesota and Dakota points with return limit October 31. Reduced round trips to St. Paul and Minneapolis also available after June 1. For details contact agents or A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis.
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