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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1909
Page
3
B F Dixon & Co announces 1908 sales in Washington County totaling 405 200 dollars. The firm footed its year ending March 1 1909 and notes substantial sales outside the county as well. Partners listed are B F Dixon J T Matthews and A J Dawson who invite local business.
The Princess Wah-ta-Waso, granddaughter of a famed Six Nations Iroquois chief, wears eighteen strings of genuine Six Nations wampum. She notes the craft is a lost art, with no wampum made in a century, and that her costume is over fifty years old from her mother. She travels to gatherings and once joined Sac and Fox dog feast celebrations in Iowa. She jokes about money and mentions having a beau, saying Rockefeller’s money cannot buy happiness and she could show him.
An advertisement from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo asserts deafness from catarrh can be cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promises a $100 reward for any deafness case not cured by the remedy and notes the product sells for 75 cents, with additional mention of Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
For Sale extra good farms and town residence and business property near West Chester in Washington County Iowa within two to five miles of town. Includes meat market ice business buildings fixtures a good paying enterprise and a first class elevator and coal business. J. D. Dayton West Chester.
Rev. Joseph H. Fesperman of Salisbury North Carolina reports years of kidney trouble and a severe winter attack. Bedridden eight days he began Foley's Kidney Remedy, the pain abated and ceased. He cheerfully recommends Foley's Kidney Remedy through Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co.
Washington reports outline Taft's cabinet plans after inauguration with leaks on secretary of war choice and other picks. Retirement of Senators Teller of Colorado and Platt of New York noted with career highlights and party shifts. Congress described as tame, with tribute from Champ Clark to Taft and debates on grain inspection and salaries.
Rev. Charles R. Brown preached on The Young Man's Wife before a crowded First Congregational Church in Oakland. He urged young men to earn the right to marry, marry the right girl, stay married, and touched on publicity for marriage licenses and tougher divorce laws.
Readable snippet states a good wife will more than double his happiness, illustrating domestic idealism in a historical context. The line suggests traditional gender roles and marital expectations without further details or attribution.
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