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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1905
Page
8
An advertisement extols Hyomei as superior to other patent medicines for catarrh. It claims a 99 percent cure rate, outlines the eucalyptus base and healing gums, and promotes a $1 complete outfit with lifetime inhaler and optional refills at 50 cents. The ad guarantees refunds if it fails to cure.
A Chicago Beach hotel alimony dinner honors Romaine Pierson with twenty four divorcees and debutantes as guests. Toasts recall failed marriages while invitations feature broken heart verse and warnings about matrimony. James Charter attends after his recent divorce. other notables toast the ex couples and comment on marriage. James Hyde promotes French language use in business communications.
Boston dispatch reports Charlotte Perkins Gilman proposes unmarried women choose a state and move to marry, with Massachusetts as the example. She says 70,600 eligible women face marriage impossibility under current conditions and advocates women becoming pioneers like men in the west.
Mrs Albert Kreiss of Appleton Wisconsin observed the twenty sixth birthday of her deceased daughter Mrs Kreiss Speedy. A large group visited the cemetery decorated the grave with flowers then returned to the Kreiss home for refreshments. A vacant chair at the head of the table was draped in red white and blue and a birthday cake with twenty six burnt candles stood before it.
The article explains sea quakes as ocean disturbances linked to earthquakes and notes how they can toss decks and create gigantic waves. It recounts Major Dutton's account of a 1868 South American event where the sea receded then surged inland, carrying ships like the Waterleo ashore before returning.
In Hazen Churchill County Nevada on March 1 a mob hanged one of two alleged railway robbers after they fled into the sagebrush. The other man escaped unharmed.
March 1. North Birmingham Mayor James N. Cole has been arrested on an indictment charging embezzlement of municipal funds exceeding 5000. He posted bond immediately.
Mrs. Brindley remains about the same at her Heights home. A message from Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cashman in Roswell New Mexico says Mr. Cashman is slowly improving.
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