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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1909
Page
5
Washington March 23 special to the Evening Journal. The forecast for Iowa today and tomorrow calls for unsettled conditions with likely showers late tonight or Wednesday. Warmer tonight in east and central portions.
The High School Glee club will perform in the school auditorium on March 26. The program features Miss Baird as reader and Miss Maxwell on violin with the group. Admission is 15 and 25 cents. Further program details to be announced.
Guaranteed to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money back. 60c.
Prof Louis Williams presented a lively demonstration at the Presbyterian church for the Christian Endeavor society. The show featured chemical and electrical experiments, wireless telegraphy and brave youths buzzing with energy. Door receipts amounted to about $40 as Rothschild’s advertised waists drew attention afterwards.
The Living Lake Literary Society presents a March 26 program with roll call quotations, instrumental solos by Maude Shaw and Gerty Casper, readings by Walter Reed and Mrs. Maude Brown, a history by Rose Hines, recitations, essays, stories, prophecies, parodies, and a dialogue. Edna Carr serves as secretary.
Manager Lemmon of the opera house received word today that the Hickman Bessey company cancels their engagement starting next Monday due to illness. The troupe had played the town yearly and drawn good crowds, and many will miss Washington as the high class week stand company cancels this season.
Friends of the six men who ascended Saturday in the balloon America have had no word since. Relief expeditions have formed as search efforts extend toward the San Gabriel mountain ranges and Mojave Desert, with rangers and Pasadena Elks aiding in the manhunt under stormy winter conditions.
The Sherman antitrust case to break up Standard Oil of New Jersey was heard in St. Louis in the United States circuit court. Judges Willis Van Devanter William C Hook Walter H Sanborn and Elmer B Adams preside with direct appeal to the Supreme Court. The suit filed December 1906 cites seven individuals including John D Rockefeller and Henry M Flagler along with Standard Oil and 69 subsidiaries.
Auctioneers Brown and Helwick offer 30 head young farm horses aged 3 to 7 years and 2 good spans of mules at McElhinney's sale barn Morning Sun Iowa on Saturday March 27 1909 at 12 30 p m. Also 35 head 3 to 8 year old horses mares in foal draft and driving horses. Terms cash or bankable note with interest. Attendance urged for buyers in search of quality horses and mares.
Miss Kate Montgomery fills the second room at the South school after the resignation of Mrs Anna Rehmel. A State University student, she returned home Saturday to begin her duties. R H Newell of Denver Colorado was seen passing through this morning en route to Keota.
The article explains stiff neck is usually from rheumatism in neck muscles and often affects one side. It notes Chamberlain's Liniment provides quick relief without internal treatment when fever or swelling are absent. Sold by F. L. Stolte and Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Store advertises eight broom grades with a wider selection than competitors and emphasizes very attractive prices across each grade.
Berlin reports Count Zeppelin and a crew of twenty six aboard the enormous dirigible sailed 150 miles in four hours setting a world weight carrying record. Crowds watched as the airship lifted from Lake Constance with ten army aeronauts and fifteen soldiers aboard.
A description highlights a nourishing breakfast option that supports the body without taxing the digestive organs and is consistently praised for its taste and health benefits.
Mr. and Mrs. 8. P. Keefer travel to Verdi to visit their daughter Mrs. Geo. Fetters for a day. Local band members have been chosen and begin practicing for summer concerts. Mrs. C. M. Marr leaves Haskins for Omaha to live with a son. J. B. Crooks made a business call at Ottumwa yesterday. Mrs. J. W. Collins from Butte, visiting in this city, departs for St. Paul last evening.
Watertown Wisconsin man J A Swenson says ten years of eczema resisted 16 doctors until Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured him. Advertises salve for skin eruptions eczema salt rheum boils fever sores burns scalds cuts and piles at 25 cents through J E Lemmon.
Mrs. George Dye and her son George left last night to travel to Stanwood California to join Mr. Dye who is already stationed there.
Harry Montgomery departed last night for Seward Nebraska to handle business for the Geo H Paul Land Co. He travels to support company affairs and oversee land dealings in the region.
A Wisconsin mother reports her three year old son suffered severe constipation and high fever. After giving two doses of Foley's Orino Laxative the next morning the fever disappeared and the child recovered fully.
B W Nicola of Norfolk Nebraska spent three weeks visiting at the Nicola home and was a passenger for Riverside last evening before continuing to his home.
An advertisement promises enduring marital happiness if both partners drink Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co. and hawked at Vienna stores.
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