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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1902
Page
3
Special to Tuk Evening Journal. The forecast predicts generally fair weather and warmer temperatures for Iowa tonight and Tuesday.
Local notices list Kat Allens Ice Cream and Johnsons Butter scotch specials for tomorrow while residents travel to Ainsworth Pleasant Plain and North Washington. Several visitors arrive from Ft Scott Brighton Davenport and Muscatine.承
A report on yesterday's Children's Day services in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches highlights child centered programs, decorations, and exercises. The events drew broad interest, underscoring a nationwide trend to observe the day more widely each year.
The Nickel Plate show arrived early at McGrane's Park and staged a street parade to large crowds. A single-ring performance featured educated ponies horses camels and elephants with acrobats and riders praised by onlookers. Another show is scheduled tonight and locals are urged to attend.
Mrs J W McClellach of Ila Kansas visiting relatives here departed this morning for a visit with her brother George in Newton en route home.
The notice lists travel fares and return limits for the annual meetings of the National Educational Association Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Ancient Order United Workmen Young People’s Christian Union and Knights of Pythias and Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. It details one fare plus two hundred dollars round trips to Minneapolis Salt Lake City Portland Tacoma and Seattle with various date ranges and 60 day return limits.
The Iowa Central Railway will run through sleeping cars and coaches between Peoria and St. Paul and Minneapolis starting June. The new service aims at quicker travel and improved connections from all Iowa Central points to St. Paul Minneapolis or Peoria. For details contact Iowa Central agents. Till July 15.
The Wabash will sell Chicago to Boston and return tickets for June 12 13 and 14 at low rates. Travel via Niagara Falls Hoosie Tunnel Montreal or via New York by rail or boat. Final return limit July 31. For rates and full information contact F A Palmer A G P A Adams St Chicago.
Mrs. Anna Chance Roberts returns from Barlington commencement. Misa Joonie Jackson heads to Alneworth then Otway. Miss Paden visits Misa Fio Taylor and travels to Naperville. Rev J Lackey reports a strong United Presbyterian assembly in Allegheny with attendees J P Davis and Charles Dewey arriving from Pueblo. Dell H Duncan showcases sheet pictures with free framed copies for a limited time. Andrew Shaffer and R L MacGugio, once Davenport to Ottumwa, now in Eldon banking and insurance.
Readers learn that pimples come from blood impurities and can be prevented by external antiseptic applications to the skin before swelling becomes noticeable. A drop of arntcen is suggested as an early treatment once redness appears, with several daily applications to push the lesion back under the skin.
An intelligent sepoy delivered a telegram to a central India station. The operator disputed the wording and the sepoy insisted the message was correct. After a threat to report the superintendent, the telegram was sent: Come quick, father dangerously dead.
At a Saturday meeting of the bank directors a committee was appointed to handle incorporation and furnish the bank. Members named are H E McCollum, 8 A White, KE G Wilson, 8S W Brookbart, and Charles Obngemach.
Mrs M Shields of Chambersburg Pennsylvania recalls recovery from severe hay fever and asthma after using Dr. King s New Discovery for Consumption. The remedy is praised as a safe universal cure for throat and lung diseases, with guaranteed bottles and free trials at Stewart s Pharmacy. Cascarets candy cathartic advertised for constipation relief.
A historical note describes cutting sheet brass by applying a mercury alcohol solution with a quill, letting it dry, and drawing over it with a nitrile weld. The brass is then snapped along the scored line using a diamond tool.
Historical report notes handmade gold pens cut from metal strips by eclosors and finished entirely by hand, claiming they fell short of the quality of modern machine made pens.
The fragment references a carver who changes technique, mentions bowing and a desire to place a foot on the table while handling a bird. It notes struggle and a cryptic London Answers context, with uncertain details and sparse readable facts.
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