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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1901
Page
3
Numerous city visitors and travelers are listed from Keokuk to Crawfordsville with residents en route to Chicago Burlington and Brighton. Foley's gallery offers free photographs to seniors while Puritan cigars are extolled as the best five cent and four cent smokes.
The forecast calls for fair weather in Iowa with continued cold tonight and Wednesday. Local items note travel to Sigourney, Ainsworth, Columbus City, West Chester, and Colfax, with social visits, photography, and millinery plans. Also included are medical and commercial blurbs and a short update on Mr Scranton’s health and entry of Eucaline as an antiseptic.
In Davenport a suit against local grocers established that sellers cannot collect for alum-containing baking powders listed in Iowa as containing alum. The case holds these products violate health and food laws, with damages denied for alum powders sold by Calumet, Jacques, Chapman’s, Grant Chemical, Pure Food, J. P. Dieter, Cameo, Tone Bros, Grant & Sons, W. M. Hoyt, Bain & Chapman, Mokaska, Sherman Bros, Sprague Warner, and others in Chicago Des Moines St Louis St Joseph.
Rev D J Masson conducted the funeral in Columbus City for Robert Orr aged 82 a longtime Louisa County resident and brother of W W Orr of this city. The service occurred this morning at eleven o clock.
An ad touts Weeks Break Up a Cold Tablets described as breaking up a cold while you sleep. It claims no cure no pay and lists Sewarbt's Pharmacy as the seller for 25 cents.
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