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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1910
Page
8
Mrs. C H Monses and her daughter Meta whipped Rev. Dr. J H Wilson at the Church of the Ascension in Savannah Georgia after accusing him of wronging their family. Wilson offered no resistance and resigned as pastor after the incident.
May 11 Calumet The village of Alston in Houghton county faces fierce forest fires. Two buildings have burned and the population fights the flames aided by locomotives from the South Shore Railroad. The Alston blaze is the largest and most serious of fires in the area.
About 200 Congregational Church members will escort Rev. Charles R. Brown to the Golden Gate to begin a twenty day voyage to the Orient. A leather bound book with twenty watercolor illustrated pages, each from a church department, accompanies the trip. The plan includes daily greetings from flock representatives as Dr. Brown sails.
During the coming months the pulpit will be filled by a slate of visiting ministers from California. Rev William Rader of San Francisco Calvary Presbyterian church Dr Adams of the Congregational church San Francisco Rev Willard B Thorpe of the Congregational church San Diego Rev Albert W Palmer of Plymouth Congregational church Oakland and Rev Loyal L Wirt assistant pastor of the First Congregational church Oakland will deliver sermons.
Describes women facing nervousness melancholy loss of appetite headaches sleeplessness and fainting spells needing Electric Bitters touted as a cure all. Claims thousands of sufferers with female and nervous troubles gained health and happiness. Sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy with 5c price and satisfaction guarantee.
A Tattler column quotes Mrs Jones arguing against fate or limits, insisting humanity deserves natural elevation and freedom if destiny intended flight. The remark frames a broader talk on opportunity and barriers in a compact provincial voice.
Wheat and inching prices for No 2 red to No 3 spring range from 1.08 to 1.17 dollars per bushel with varying percentages. Live stock receipts at Chicago show hogs 9 000 head and cattle 2 000 with prices spanning 5.75 to 9.60 dollars for hogs and 3.75 to 8.55 for cattle. sheep and lambs steady to mixed. East Buffalo reports steady cattle, strong hogs at 9.90 to 10.10, and slow sheep trade with lambs at 8.90 and yearlings around 7.78 to 8.00.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt and family arrived in Berlin from Stockholm en route to Potsdam where they would meet Kaiser Wilhelm and attend a lunch with the emperor and empress. Ambassadors and officials faced miscommunications delaying official reception.
National League results include Pittsburg Brooklyn Chicago New York Cincinnati St Louis and Boston games with multiple matchups. Key pitchers mentioned are Leever Gib som Mathewson Ames Crandall Meyers Kling Curtiss Graham Bresnaban and Waddell with games in Pittsburgh Chicago Cincinnati St Louis Washington Philadelphia and New York. Standings show win loss and percentage markers for four teams.
A collage of humorous vignettes on marriage urgency and social manners. Tutors teach daughters to say yes in many languages while a colonel jokes about wasted ammunition. A masculine shopping scene leads to playful banter and a morning kiss cure at a school. Carnegie tale ends with a tipsy caddie meeting a local specter.
Tellin Studio announces a limited offer until June 10 to photograph and mount a large cabinet picture featuring as many babies as possible. Each participating baby ages six to eighteen months earns one free cabinet portrait.
The funeral for the late Joel E. Woolverton will take place tomorrow at 2 o'clock in the afternoon at the home of his son Charles E. Woolverton, located two miles south of town.
Confirmation services in Trinity Episcopal church are postponed due to illness of Bishop Morrison. Prayer service and date for the confirmation will be announced later.
In Milwaukee 4 to Indianapolis 3 at St Paul 6 Toledo 5. At Minneapolis 6 Columbus 4. Kansas City 7 Louisville 8. The game extended to ten innings.
London on May 11 reports Col. Roosevelt will receive the freedom of the city in a gold box during a municipal reception on May 31. The entertainment of London society by the city will proceed as planned without postponement despite prior questions.
A clipped Detroit Free Press quip notes that the man who recognizes his own comfort bets on a woman's first word in an argument, implying she ends with the last word in that dynamic.
In New York on May 11 Jem Driscoll and his manager Jimmy Johnson crossed Fifth Avenue at Forty-Third Street when a speeding automobile veered toward them. Driscoll grabbed a water cooler and hung on to avoid being hit, suffering a bruised leg as the car stopped.
The article notes alcohol as the common preservative in medicines with 1 to 22 percent in proprietary remedies while doctors’ prescriptions run 25 to 50 percent. It cites Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound at 18 percent and mentions tablet forms for those avoiding alcohol.
The text suggests Frey’s photos are highly valued for superior quality. It invites readers to visit to see the proof, implying excellence as the main reason.
May 11 report that thousands of children and country people were disappointed as the season's first circus parade moved through the streets without music from the calliope. J P Brown city smoke inspector warned he would take the show to the police station for a toot. Merchants complained the calliope smoke filled stores.
American actress Pauline Chayze who starred in Peter Pan in London arrived in New York to attend the actors' fund fair and auction 500 autograph photos of prominent persons including an image of Roosevelt. She will sail to London tomorrow on the Mauretania after a seventeen hour stay.
In a curt exchange the tailor warns of pressing a bill to Slow Pay, who shrugs off the demand noting he already has a dozen fresh copies of the memorandum at home. The brief legal narrator references a judge.
The annual report of the state water supply commission estimates that at least a million and a tall horsepower can be developed on interior streams in New York. The stored energy equals about a third of all water power now used in the United States, signaling major implications for the state's future industrial growth.
A column-style notice recalls a girl named Susie who loved climbing trees fences jumping ditches and whittling while enduring cuts bruises burns and scrapes. Her mother applied Buck ten s Arnica Salve and helped heal boils ulcers eczema and other sores. 25¢ at J K Lemmon s Lemmon s Pharmacy.
English capital shops traditionally close windows with heavy shutters but the American plan of well lit displays is being introduced successfully.
A period ad urges mothers to use VINO cod liver and iron preparation to strengthen pale, frail children. It promises rapid improvement in health, noting rosy cheeks and robust growth with this tonic. The message reflects early 20th century promotional advertising for child tonics.
For more than three decades Foley's Honey and Tar has been a trusted remedy for throat chest and lung ailments. It is pitched as safe for infants and children since it contains no opiates or harmful drugs. Genuine product warned against in yellow packaging. Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co quoted.
A road gang keeps the French end of the Corniche in constant repair. They live in a green van hauled by a steam roller used for traction. Crushed stone is supplied on site and spread and rolled by labor and machinery to prevent damage and keep costs down.
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