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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1911
Page
3
Readable fragments describe a wire service brief about activities in Washington involving a boy or team, with scant details and no clear event or outcome. The item reads as a fragmentary note in the wire service stream.
Wireless telephony lets two French naval officers hear conversation and song 90 miles away. Muscatine reports detail company duties, mess, and morale with names of officers, privates, and local anecdotes from April 1901.
A dubious medical offer touts cure-alls for catarrh nose throat lung diseases eye ear nose throat issues and many other conditions. It promises rapid relief and guarantees cures with little notice of risks or qualifications while painting a sensational picture of afflicted patients and astounding results.
Physician advertises cures for sexual weakness and private diseases including syphilis gonorrhea hydrocele varicocele and seminal weakness. Claims wonderful perfected cures in old neglected cases with no experiments or failures and states he undertakes no incurable cases yet has cured thousands.
The county shows strong enthusiasm for a Short Course with a $650 Staranty pledge signed by over 140 men in Motown. Prof P G Holden of the state college ext extends praise for local efforts led by County Superintendent Miss Minnie Conner and S W Brookhart's county drive to secure early guarantees and letters to teachers.
Matthew J McGrath once world hammer throw champion was discharged from the New York police for conduct unbecoming an officer after being acquitted of shooting a man found in his home last Christmas. The decision surprised his friends.
The piece extols Wren's Save and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a daily, safe hair strengthener that restores color to gray hair. It claims the product strengthens weak hair, brightens dull hair, and offers a money back guarantee if not effective, priced at $4.
Vincennes merchants will not sell toy pistols cannon crackers or explosives this year. The board of police commissioners declared for an absolutely safe and sane Fourth to prevent dangerous fireworks stockpiling.
A meeting in Joliet between the Illinois legislature and the prison removal commission results in a recommendation to appropriate $500,000 for preliminary work on a new state penitentiary. Subcommittees on finance in both houses will consider the measure.
The statewide spread use of Root Juice is drawing universal interest as it claims rapid stomach, liver, kidney and bowel relief. Fort Wayne police officer John K. Stevens testifies it cured his kidney and bladder issues, saying many others in the city have been helped. The remedy sells for one dollar a bottle at Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Mrs Patrick Burns passed away at her home on East Harrison Street Waterloo after a six week illness pneumonia and a relapse. Born April 29 1857 in Mast Dubuque she would have been 54. She married Patrick Burns on December 21 1886 in Washington Iowa leaving Kathryn Boss and William as survivors with Thomas having died in infancy. She is survived by her mother Mary Whelan six brothers and two sisters and was a longtime Waterloo resident and St Josephs Catholic Church member. Funeral services will be held at 9 a m Saturday at St Josephs with burial in Calvary Cemetery six brothers to act as pallbearers.
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