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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1905
Page
6
Accidents, deaths, births and marriages are reported promptly by our news gatherers. The item reflects a local observance of personal events and public safety incidents in the community.
June 16 items report visitors including Miss Bell Marr and Miss Mamie Rush. Baseball game at Washington beat Brighton 11 to 10 with injuries to James Strain and G A Carson on interference at first base. Various residents shopped, toured Washington, or visited relatives. Hagenbeck show attended in Muscatine.
June 16 notes list J. H. Peckham and wife traveling from this place to Milwaukee. Local residents include Mr. and Mrs. Badham in Washington, Maurice Jones and Ernest Badhan visiting, Opal Hand home from vacation, J. Mathers and family in Washington, Emily Mathers in town, Wm. McCartney taking hogs to Chicago, and Mrs. Beardsley with Ollie visiting Muscatine. Church services announced for Sabbath at 3 p.m. by Rev. Thompson from Nebraska, with Bethel sermon at 11. Joe Weir recovering from appendicitis.
Miss Eda Kos returns home from the country and Miss Ida Wieland visits Ber tha Grady in Muscatine. Mrs. Chariie Bear is ill with appendicitis. Miss Leona Shillig sews for sister Mrs. Albert Escher. Mrs. Cecil Boyd of Quincy Ill visits with her two babies at her parents home. Knebel and Winnie spend Wednesday in Washington. Mr and Mrs Jimmie Chalupa visit Max Whitmire on Wednesday. Some farmers plant corn for the third time. Mrs Emma Lehrer visits her mother Mrs Johanna Marek.
June 15. The neighborhood youths enjoyed a social at Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Booths Wednesday night. Wilber Beenblossoms attended Children's Day in Washington and visited H. A. Hoppings. Myrtle Brookhart Emma Hays and Mary Boucher closed their schools last Friday. Johnny McKune and Robert Buntenbach have new top buggies. Earl Johnny Simpson and Ethel Waters visited Mr. and Mrs. John Green at Keota over Sunday.
Miss Tillie Coppock has a fine new piano. Miss Mary Bouche attends Normal in Washington this week and next. George Park travels west to Iowa City last week for an eye operation and is recovering well. A heavy rain Friday spoiled the ice cream supper at Mureka school house disappointing many. Johnny McKune attended the Children’s Day service at Wayland Sunday. Bert Gibson took his grandfather to Illinois Tuesday to visit relatives. Mrs Jerry Hopping visited from Oskaloosa last week and may settle in Washington. Mrs L F Sigafoose visited daughter Mrs Wilber Beenblossom on Wednesday.
An advertisement urges use of Hyomel for catarrhal troubles during May and June. It promotes a one dollar Hyomei kit including inhaler, dropper, and bottle with a lifetime-lasting design and optional extra bottles for fifty cents. Columbia Pharmacy offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
The Normal enrollment reached 207 today with Miss Jennie Nelson joining the B division. Mrs. Mitchell gave her final chapel address as she prepared to depart. Miss Porter outlined examination times for June 17 with a morning session on orthography physiology and penmanship and an afternoon session on didactics and reading.
An advertisement claims women suffer from fatigue and weakness but can regain health after using Lydie E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound marketed for restoring vitality. The copy invokes common complaints of exhaustion and poor wellbeing.
A reader in Woodbridge New Jersey describes uterine trouble with symptoms of low mood backache and sleeplessness. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health and urges other women to obtain the remedy and contact Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice.
A detailed program for Children Day Exercises at Pleasant Hill on June 18 at 2 30 p m lists organ voluntaries prayers recitations songs and drills by numerous local students and staff with names including Mable McKee Bryan Swift Myrtie Saville and Edna McKee plus a separate note about Nickel Plate Road train fares and schedules from Chicago to Buffalo and other eastern points with stops and meal options.
A legal notice enumerates owners and unknown claimants of real estate, detailing surviving spouses heirs and devisees as defendants. It requests title quieting, mortgage cancellation, and relief with a September 1905 court deadline and addresses venues in Washington City, Iowa. The notice ends with a health ad for Dr King’s New Life Pills.
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