Uncle Jeff Armstrong Suffers Mild Paralysis This Morning
Uncle Jeff Armstrong experienced a partial stroke while walking, collapsed but was aided by bystanders Aaron Hise and Len Smouse and walked home. The paper notes his condition is not severely affecting and expresses hope for recovery. Also announced are garden seed sales from Bowland & Shters at Columbia Pharmacy, and news of local events including a Six Page Today edition, a funeral for John Hammas, and the Twentieth Century reading circle meeting hosted by Mrs Eva Livingston with notes on the Iowa capture Miss Stone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jef Armstrong
Aaron Hise
Len Smouse
Eva Livingston
West Washington Street
Iowa
Emma Sproull
Miss Stone
Fionia Lamphere
Kiva Livingston
KR. T. McCall
Chiropodist at Civic Hotel Treats Bunions and Nails
Chiropodist Dr James Wars offers painless treatment for bunions and ingrowing toe nails at Civic Hotel. Ladies and gents receive skilled foot care while other remedies for kidney issues are also advertised by Hobbs agus Fille cureail and Kennedy Co in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Hotel
James Wars
Hobbs
Ada Wrorfinne Kemnedy Co
Local society notes and family updates sweep town
East Main street resident Mrs. Ronaldson suffers a flower injury. Mrs. J Y Whiteman visits South Washington with her parents, while W T A White of Peoria shows improving health. Mrs A Anderson stays with sister Mrs Gertrude White to care for the stick man. The Queen Esther Circle hosts a Measuring Social with a height based admission. Maurice arrived from Crawfordville visiting the Hamilton home. Mrs L S Patterson leaves for Ames for the P E O convention. Miss Klopfenstein from near Crawfordville shops in the city. Daniel Emmerson of Highland township conducts city business. Emma Wilson arrives to spend summer with Mrs M Y Wallace. Warren Moore travels north to Minneapolis and the Dakotas. Uncle Ned Skinner weakens, few nourishment, feared death nearby.
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J. Y. Whiteman
Biggeville,Jr
Geo. Auld
South Washington
W. T A. White
Peoria
A Anderson
Gertrude White
Queen Esther Circle
Mise Eden Klein
South Second Avenue
Ter
Maurice
Crawfordaville
Hamilton
Emma Wilson
M. Y. Wallace Warren Moore
North
Minneapolis
Dakotas
Weather forecast and notices from local exchange
Fon Salb Jereey cow four years old needs at this office wa Warney housekeeper for week or ten days. Parties visiting. Warren rent furnished house for summer or longer. Inquire at JOURNAL office. Wanted a boy for the palot shop. Washington buggy Co Mrs O W McLaughlin and daughter.
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Warney
Warren- Torent
Journal
Palot
Washington Buggy Co
Death of Brother Brings Mrs Atkinson to Lilioois
Mrs Atkinson travels to Lilioois after the death of her brother who died instantly from a kick by a horse. Other items note Mra M J Henderson leaving for Lenox Iowa to visit relatives, Obria Jones and Mr Jones returning to Des Moines, and several local notices including sales and social invitations.
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Mra. Atkinson
Lilioois
Mra
M. J. Henderson
Lenox
Iowa
Cardus Wine Endorsed As Guide Through Womanhood
A historical notice promotes Cardus wine as a supposed remedy to guide a young girl through womanhood by starting menstruation. The claim links the product to female development and health in a period-advertising style.
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Markell M
London
Ontario
Canada
Cardus
Cardui
Markell
Why Noses Point East: A Left Handed Theory
A brief note from Saturday Evening Test argues that most noses tilt right due to habitual right-handed nose blowing and wiping. It suggests left-handed individuals may show leftward tilt, though data are incomplete, inviting readers to observe passersby.
Rose of Sharon and plant care notes from August to September
The passage covers pruning and planting tips for roses and trees, recommends shortening previous season’s growth on setting out a tree, and suggests spacing elms and maples forty five feet apart. It also discusses flowering in sweet William and contrasts the Black Sea currents and bottom water chemistry with depth, noting no life below about 100 fathoms and a rotten egg smell from deeper water.
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Black Sea
Mediterranean
Englishman confused by bean soup tale in New England cafe
In a Philadelphia Times joke a diner protests a waiter about bean soup and demands to know what it is. A Chicago Record Herald gag with Little Waldo has the boy misdescribing Greek isles as pork surrounded by beans.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
New England
Philadelphia Times
Happy Isles
Greece
Little Waldo
Waldo
Chicago Record-Herald
West Highland Minister Defies Pulpit Norm
A Scotch minister in a west Highland parish rarely allows strangers to preach. An Edinburgh divinity student stayed nearby and asked to preach next day. The minister told him if he preached better than him his people would never be satisfied with his preaching, and if not he would not be worth listening to.
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West Highland
Edinburgh Divinity
Soubrette Heavily Rejoiced: Farewell in Every Town
The heavy tragedian reports a rousing reception nationwide and says leaving the last town pained him. A comedian jokes they even rode him out on a keen edged rail, per the Philadelphia Record.
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Philadelphia Record
Telegram idea shocks class of ten girls
Ten girls in a composition class were told to draft telegrams for a railway accident scenario. One student sent a grim sample reading Tear Papa-Mamma is killed, I am in the refreshment room, prompting discussion on tone and appropriateness.
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Papa-Mamma
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Bowland & Shterps
Columbia Pharmacy
Tsste
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Father Jacobsmeier
Elm
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Jobo Buckley
Joseph Wolf
James Boyd
Martin Swift
Hugh Dougal
Jobo Donovan
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Ronaldson
East Main Street
Daniel Emmerson
Highland Township
Ned Skinner
Weather Forecast
Washington, D C
Eyewine Journal
West Portion
A. Savrge
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Ofice, Wg
Thos. Simpson, Jr
Eryrearm
Mra. Obria Jones
Des Moines
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Win Smouse
Mas
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Allen, Lombardo
Hotel Colenso
Nora Motte
Chicago
Lucy Lindsay
OM Jackle
Fairfield Ledger
McKenney
Lowa
Hank
Fairfield
William Carden
Winfield
Bory
Porter
J. W. Teeter
BR Avenue
Rowland & Shelda
Washington, Iowa
Philadelphia
Italy
Oxford
Ideal
Patent
Work & Meek
Miss May Markell
A Society Belle of
Uneeda
Uneeda Biscuit
Hall
Smyrnia
Wilton
Axminster
Smyrna
Wiltons
New York
Pillsbury
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Pati
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