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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1909
Page
2
Medical advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional blood disease cured by internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio is described as a nonquack tonic purifying blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for 75 cents. testimonials offered. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Mrs Elinor Madden of Bridgewater Iowa came home last evening accompanied by her sister Miss Mame Doig who spent a few weeks visiting.
In Cedar Rapids Iowa W L DeClow promotes a Great Jack described as sired by the Great Son of Custer with top male producers. A farmer named Mr J A Kolosick has purchased and DeClow will buy all mules sired by this jack from good mares at 75 dollars at weaning. He will insure mares for 15 dollars to stand and tie and payment due when mare is known in foal or sold. Stand at farm 2 miles SW of Ainsworth.
Short city notes report shopping promos at Monarch Shirts and the Fair, travel and visits by Irene Acheson and Miss Flo Purvis, and arrivals in the city from Chicago and Des Moines. Mentions Hammocks for sale, Millet seed corn at Marbourg yard, and a city hospital appendicitis operation. Trade tips tout Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea and Sage and Sulphur hair remedy Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur.
The chamber of deputies adjourned postal interpellations until May 18 after a stormy four hour session. Within half an hour the federal committee ordered a general strike and railway mail clerks walked out. A 6,000 strong postal workers meeting at the Hippodrome voted unanimously to strike.
A brief listing shows All 1,00 Monarch Shirts offered by Dougherty Bros for 5c each, likely a local ad noting stock and pricing. The entry records a small quantities sale and identifies the vendors Dougherty Bros.
Huntsville Alabama hosts ten Fourth Ohio Cavalry veterans returning a captured Confederate flag from Selma April 1865. Local UCV chapter Daughters of the Confederacy and others greet the visitors in a ceremony showing postwar reconciliation between north and south. The flag had resided in Ohio’s capitol as a war memento since its capture.
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, in Chicago for a meeting of meat inspectors, avoids disputing James A. Patten over wheat. He questions if current prices are real or fictitious and defends the government reporting system as more reliable, claiming $1 a bushel would spur vast wheat plantings.
Col onel Roosevelt bags a bulky bull rhinoceros near Machakos as part of a last expedition tally. The animal charged Roosevelt at fourteen paces before he fired. Naturalists prepared trophies for the Smithsonian after forty five skins were readied for Washington.
The wedding of Mrs. Robert T. P. Fiske to Count Lionel de Montesquiou Fezensac was held at St Peter Church in New Brighton Staten Island. The groom hails from an ancient French noble family and is related to Count Robert de Montesquiou Fezen sac who lectured in America. The bride is sister to H Wisner Miller and George Clinton Miller. her first husband died about five years ago and she has two children.
A Westminster Gazette note recalls Robert Browning asking a stranger for directions to Lady Kinloch. She offers to check the directory and escorts him to the doorstep. After thanking her he returns to reveal his identity as a poor poet.
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