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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1909
Page
6
A fragment urges reciprocal trade protections, arguing for equal treatment and safeguards if positions were reversed. It frames a store level appeal for fair conditions and mutual trade expectations between parties.
Local brief records several residents traveling or visiting friends including J C Brown to Gladwin and Miss Addie Carson to West Chester. L W Plummer and Miss Maud Limerman return home after visits, Merle Crayne plans a West Chester stay, Mrs G G Ebner and Miss Martha Porter head to Ainsworth. Foley’s Honey and Tar advertised by Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co.
Newspaper brief notes several local items including Washington banks processing more than two million dollars in business on March first and social visits. Albert Kuhn renewed old acquaintances in Keota. Emma McChesney visiting Miss Wortley in Washington. Effie Porter visiting the D L Baird home after coming from Ainsworth.
John 3. White grows weaker with no lasting improvement noted. March 1h. Jesse Longwell can walk again and shows slow improvement. Wellman Advance reports March 4 that auctioneer Chas. Brown visited from Williamsburg after a large horse sale.
Mrs Chas McCreedy visits relatives in Washington while her husband completes assessor duties before moving to Colorado. Miss Florence Mark of East Ninth Street sails on the T Firefly for Washington to visit sister Mrs A B Adams through next Monday.
Miss Dora Shoop returns to Columbus from a Sunday night shift and resumes work Monday morning at the seed house in Washington where she enjoys the job. The note appears in the Columbus Safeguard on March 4.
John D. Keiser travels with Dave Teuscher on a periodic visit to Texas for Geo. H. Paul Co. The pair aims to view the country around Corpus Christi during the trip reported by the Keota Eagle on March 4.
The Rev. A. S. Bailey learned last Friday his father in Washington County Pennsylvania was seriously ill and he began traveling by evening train to his bedside.
Mrs Mary Shearer traveled from Washington to Columbus City on Saturday morning and returned to her home after spending the winter with her son Frank and his wife in Washington.
Father Leete of St Katharine's school traveled to Washington Iowa yesterday afternoon to conduct services last evening and returned home this afternoon.
Roy Y. Stichter sells his East Side Washington restaurant to Schenefelt and Gibson. If they operate as Stichter did, they will feed most visitors to the city from that establishment.
The Crawordsville Imprint editor calls themselves authority on onions and jokes about growing a crop this year that would smell like magnolia, noting they have raised many bushels that smelled like silver dollars.
Bb. F. Dixon, a leading land agent from Washington county, concluded a $33,000 transaction on Tuesday but found the westbound freight train three hours late. He walked back to Washington rather than loiter in the small town.
Dr. W. P. Gardner brokered a sale between H. G. Moore and W. B. Darnell on Monday. Darnell will take possession of Moore’s residence in Wellman in May or June. The Moore home is described as among the finest in Wellman and will enhance Darnell’s new property and local convenience for his business.
Haddie Edmondson and Miss Clara Boileau of Washington were married at the bride’s father’s home on Thursday evening February 25. They traveled to Muscatine the following day to join the groom’s mother Mrs. Annis Edmondson. Haddie formerly lived in Columbus Junction. friends here wish the couple a happy, prosperous married life.
Bert Dillon from Des Moines attends the funeral of his cousin Mrs. Barricklow. Myrtle Emry will accompany him home today for a visit at their new residence at 1110 21st Street. Dillon has sold his local farm and plans Des Moines as his permanent home.
Salis bury minister Reverend Joseph H. Fesperman writes of years with kidney trouble and a severe winter attack. He credits Foley's Kidney Remedy with easing and ending the pain after starting treatment, urging others to try it through Lemmon's Pharmacy and Elhinney Drug Co.
A 1909 financial statement from Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Lofa Washington County Iowa lists assets including discounted debts, cash on hand and drafts, with real and personal property values. It shows liabilities totaling 255 498 73 with capital stock of 50 000 00 and details of deposits, surplus, and profits, sworn by President S A White and Cashier R L Coulter before Notary Carlton C Wilson on March 5 1909.
Closing out sale at 1 mile southeast of Kalona on Wednesday March 10 1909 at 10 a.m. lists ten horses twenty five cattle thirty hogs and assorted farm implements and supplies from several noted breeders. Auctioneer O H Dunlap with Chas Brown and Audt Palmer Eglin as clerks. Lunch by Ladies Aid Society.
Rome March 6 King Victor Emmanuel gave William Marconi a private audience and then hosted him at dinner. The king congratulated Marconi on wireless telegraphy gains and Marconi said a more powerful plant at Coltano near Pisa would enable direct wireless communication with America within twelve months.
Ex president Theodore Roosevelt spent his first day as a private citizen at Sagamore Hill in quiet exercise and public notice of his March 23 departure aboard the Hamburg for Africa. A flood of letters and telegrams arrived, and Roosevelt asked the press to note he cannot reply to most messages.
Illinois and Indiana expect rain today with fair conditions tomorrow. Lower Michigan sees rain or snow today and tomorrow. Wisconsin and Iowa will have rain or snow today, then fair and colder conditions tomorrow.
Chicago markets detail grains with prices for winter and spring wheat corn and oats. Live stock reports cover hogs cattle sheep with price ranges and car receipts. East Buffalo figures show cattle hogs sheep and calves with market directions. Elgin butter market lists price tiers for creamery and dairy products.
The article urges guarding children during cough season noting colds raise diphtheria and scarlet fever risk. It promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as trusted by mothers like Mrs F F Stareher of Ripley West Virginia, asserting no opium and safe for children as for adults. Sold by F L Stolte and Lemmon's Pharmacy.
An old advertisement urges readers to take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea or tablets to cleanse winter impurities before becoming ill. The sales pitch emphasizes immediate use at 35 cents and credits Cook & Sherman and McElhinney Drug Co. with distribution.
Mrs Fred Jackson of Ainsworth vicinity spent the day visiting the Donaldson home in this city before returning home. J R Durst who lives south of town headed to Delta last evening to spend a few days with his daughter.
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