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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1909
Page
8
There is no need of a doctor for stomach pain or colic when Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is at hand. No physician can prescribe a better medicine. For sale by F. L. Stolte and Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Local notes report Nut and plain pound cake at the Vienna and a large selection of fresh cookies. Several residents, including J. T. Beamer and John McCartney, were passengers in town and spent the day. Miss Elma Morrow underwent appendicitis surgery at City hospital. A plate glass window was installed at J. B. Ziegler's store. Prof. Louis Williams to speak on electricity at the Presbyterian church March 22 with 15 and 25 cent admission.
Washington reports Broussard of Louisiana withdrew from the minority Ways and Means meeting amid tariff differences. Democrats press for changes including sugar and tobacco free trade, with rice exclusions debated by Southern Democrats. Revenue estimates place 1910 deficits around ten million, while Taft’s income tax stance is queried by Rep Ollie James.
Louisville Commercial club acts within minutes of the Union station blaze that destroyed the facility costing about 400000. The five railroads Illinois Central Big Four Southern Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern and Chesapeake and Ohio used the depot. A woman operator was rescued from the fifth story by five men.
A playful fable in verse where the grocer’s scale and an orange peel trade insinuations about honesty. The scale notes paired readings while the peel boasts of waiting to catch the grocer in a lie, revealing a long running truth about their identical weighing.
The grippe left John Kinney weak and run down until Vinc! was tried. He reports it rebuilt his strength, saying it made him feel like a different man. The ad claims Vinc! supplies peptonate of iron and cod liver oil elements without oil causing stomach upset. Money back if Vinc! fails. Cook and Sherman, druggists, Washington Iowa.
Toronto man Robert Tanner and his two young children ages ten and eight died of asphyxiation from gas at their home in March.
Chicago market notes show winter wheat and spring wheat by sample with varied prices, plus corn and oats quotes. Hogs receipts 28 000 with ranges from 6.00 to 6.85 for different grades, cattle and sheep receipts and price bands, and live poultry values. East Buffalo and Elgin reports add cattle hogs lambs and creamery prices from March 18.
Comprehensive review of Acts lessons with golden texts and commentary by Rev. D. M. Stearns. Covers Acts 1 through Acts IX including the ascension, the coming of the Spirit, Peter and John miracles, and early church growth with emphasis on witnessing and faith in Jesus Christ.
Three men die in a powder works explosion at Coeur d Alene plant in Wallace Idaho. Foreman R J Skalber Pete Rice and Alvin Nelson all residents of Wallace and employed at the plant perished. Ten structures were wrecked and more than two thousand pounds of nitroglycerin and five tons of giant powder exploded.
Kansas national banks will not be allowed to participate in the bank deposit guaranty law passed by the legislature earlier this month. Lawrence Murray, comptroller of the currency, notified W. W. Bowman, secretary of the Kansas Bankers' Association, of this ruling.
An old advertisement proclaims Foley’s Honey and Tar will cure coughs and colds and prevent pneumonia or consumption. It promises refunds if it fails and notes no opiates, with a genuine yellow package, credited to Lemmon’s Pharmacy.
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