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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1906
Page
4
Excerpt discusses diet beliefs from ancient to modern times, linking food to effects on the eater. It cites Nero and ritual cannibalism as examples of translating animal traits to humans, and notes primitive practices linked to ancestral rites and missionary accounts. It also mentions leaves moving with jerking sunlight-driven action.
The article extols Magyar art music as widely admired and linked to Liszt's grandeur. It likens Hungarian music to the Theiss river, capricious and majestic, teeming with life yet dangerous, embodying rhapsodic, intoxicated, warlike and ecstatic moods.
The telegraph plant of India uses a unique leaf arrangement to harvest daylight. Each leaf consists of three leaflets with the central leaflet rising during the day and bending downward at night to maximize light capture.
A brief family dialogue recounts a morning check in on relatives, noting the father’s rheumatic gout and the mother’s neuralgia remain present. The speaker clarifies they were asking about the reader’s health, not the whole family.
Bethlehem Commandery calls a Tuesday evening conclave for work in the order of the Temple. The session will close work for the hot weather, seeking a large attendance of Sir Knights. Horrie Bh. Horne, BE. OC.
Found Catholic prayerbook and a blue cloth jacket reported at the Journal office. Milo and Al Patterson of Lexington visit Pike day. Banker Mr. Struble of Wellman tours the city by auto. Mrs. G. P. Dolan returns to Fairfield after visiting friends. Mrs. Ida Kidwell back in Wellman after week here. John Birchell and wife of Wayland visit the city and attend the big show. Mrs. J. R. McKain returns to Brighton after days with her sister. A Kennedy of Montrose Republican candidate for congress tours the city. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hanlon of Brighton visit friends and carnival. Will Patterson and children of Pittsburg Kan. stay with his mother Mrs. A. H. Patterson.
The narrative surveys flood myths from the Bible Koran and Persian lore to Aztec Chinese Indian and African traditions. It notes Noah's ark with its three stories and two of every animal and mentions Ararat and Xisuthrus as figures tied to deluge legends. The piece highlights cross cultural parallels and details like ark dimensions and survival tales.
In Louis XV’s reign, Gustave Pelissier’s daughter Veronique, famed for her beauty, flees a disguised king through a mirrored nine story staircase. She evades capture via clever ascent and descent, aided by her father’s improvised rope and quick escape to Virginia, while the king orders a search for any enchanting girl at the Louvre.
Workmen at the postoffice changed the general delivery window to face west instead of north. Beginning tomorrow morning the evening and Sunday mail handouts by carriers will occur on the south side for Nos 1 and 2 and on the north side for carrier No 3.
An alarmingly common problem from neglected bowels and liver leads to chronic constipation. Dr King s New Life Pills are promoted as the best and gentlest regulators of stomach and bowels. Guaranteed by Stewart druggist. Price 25c.
Dave Donovan sold his automobile to Ed Klopfenstein today and will return to Texas in the fall to drive for the Standard Land company.
Special report from Salt Lake City dated June 22 notes the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Mac Gugin. The mother, father and infant are reported to be doing fine.
An advertisement asserts deafness from Eustachian tube inflammation can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It claims hall's Catarrh Cure cures nine of ten catarrh related deafness cases and offers $100 for any uncured case. Ends with product pitches for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Life Pills.
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