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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1905
Page
2
A collage of comic exchanges and social notices depicts flirtatious boastfulness, a theatrical manager’s pun, a warning to a boastful suitor, and a Tulsa promotional invitation. The gag-etched vignettes blend domestic banter with a public railway invitation and a civic aide letter from E. T. Tucker.
Dialogue presents a workplace rule where a supervisor forbids excuses after errors. The manager argues excuses waste time that could be spent correcting mistakes. The exchange highlights accountability and cost of dwelling on failures.
The dialogue discusses a financial operation linked to Harding. It notes an unnamed individual borrowing from him, suggesting a secretive monetary arrangement and implying concern over Harding's financial dealings and health context.
In Maryland a deacon cuts his nose shaving before church. His wife fetches court plaster, but at collection time the crowd notices. An assistant points to the nose, another friend jokes that the label on the cotton spool reads warranted 200 yards long.
McKinnon of Talladega writes of illness from Pneumonia cured by Dr Kings New Discovery. He mentions relief after first dose and full cure after one bottle. Sold by J H Stewarts drug store. price 50c and 1.00. Trial bottle free.
A letter received by F R Sage secretary of the Tulsa Commercial Club invites about a hundred Tulsa citizens to a home state tour to visit old friends and acquaint themselves with public organizations in Tulsa Ind Ter dated March 7 1905 from Secretary Chamber of Commerce Washington Iowa.
Local notices record varied social activity including returns of Rev M L Sanders to Yarmouth and Rev Jones on Muscatine travel, visits by Mrs Sam Griffith and baby to Brighton, and dozens of residents traveling to or from Muscatine Oskaloosa and Iowa City. A license to wed for Clarence Nicholson and Luella Swailes is listed, with community events such as a singing engagement in Keota and a lecture by Samuel Barret promoting education.
Hon John Shenick of Chicago credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with easing throat and lung complaints during a heated lithal campaign. He says two doses cleared inflammation by morning and helped him win a council seat. Available at Stewart's Pharmacy Cook and Sherman.
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