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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1911
Page
6
The store promotes an all department liquidation offering items at extremely low prices to clear surplus before summer. The message urges customers to buy now, claiming profits from the sale and urging crowds to meet winter needs.
Advertises ready made sheets in drapery net at 1.00 each for hemstitched quality. torn and hemmed sheets priced at 0.75 to 0.85. 42x36 pillow cases offered at 0.25 each.
Fine bleached muslin and cambric by Lonsdale and Pepperell offered in 36 inch widths. Bleached Pepperell sheeting 9x4 and 844 Androscoggin bleu sheeting available. Various wash coats suits skirts and sweaters priced to reflect a 20 percent discount off actual cost. Take advantage of this timely opportunity to buy goods at reduced prices.
Wide ribbon at 19 cents for 50 cent value. Hair ribbon at 19 cents. Pearl buttons all sizes. Handkerchiefs mourning pins and good pins. Darning cotton spools. Safety pins paper. Hair pins wire. Buster Brown belts for children 25 cents. Tooth powder 25 cents and Colgate talcum 25 cents. 36 inch percalas 10 or 7 8. 36 inch cambric 12 1/2 cents.
May 18 Muscatine Iowa report shows state troops in Macatine incurring expenses totaling about 1916.21. Captain Lange and Captain Ready payrolls, Pearl City cafe meals for Company Co O, and transportation costs from Davenport Iowa City and Washington contribute to the bill. state expenses could reach around six thousand dollars.
Noah Morehaad and Arles Miamante, teen bandits who terrorized a community for weeks, received sentences ranging from ten to twenty years at the Titian reformatory after a pistol incident near a rented property. The judge stated the case reflects reform needs for a minor offender.
Rev Wm M Robb, veteran Covenanter mission worker in Tak Hing Chan China, shared his two and a half years of experience in a engaging lecture at Covenanter Church. He described Chinese home life, poverty, oil heated homes, curious yet hostile attitudes toward missionaries, and the mission’s medical educational and evangelistic departments.
The article recalls rapid progress in aviation from balloons to heavier than air craft. It notes pilots reaching new heights daily and tells a cautionary tale of a balloon incident at St. Louis where a daredevil grabbed the other man’s legs, risking both lives as a balloon neared bursting.
The Caner Music company announces prize awards for its ongoing puzzle contest. Winners to receive a diamond ring sewing machine gent's gold watch ladies gold watch opera glasses. Prizes will be awarded Saturday May 20. Myrtle Saville receives opera glasses.
The speaker stressed the need of the gospel in China and noted abundant opportunities for missionary work there. He urged support for efforts in the field and highlighted potential for expansion among Chinese communities.
An elderly Bath man at 11 East St cites a personal health warning to railroad workers. He says a conductor in his line caused kidney inflammation and misery, then credits Foley Kidney Pills with restoring strength and ending weakness after twenty years. He endorses the product sold by all druggists.
An advertisement touts Foley Kidney Pills as the right kind of help to neutralize poisons behind back ache headache nervousness and kidney and bladder ailments. Sold in the ad line.
An interurban car derailed five miles northwest of Oklahoma City on May 18. The high speed train jumped the track and struck a trolley pole, killing one person and injuring ten others.
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