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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 27, 1910

Page

5

Local shopping and social updates flash in The Fair and Vienna notices

The page lists sales and specials at The Fair and the Vienna bakery including coffee cakes, lemon pie, cookies, and fresh pies. It notes deliveries, new post cards, cameras supplies, Krystal glassware, and Central Park view fans. Local residents including Miss Emma Allen and Mrs. Mabie visit city, while others travel or return home.

Bear Piggie Finds Dinner and Friendship

A bedtime tale follows a lone bear whose parents are killed by a hunter. He stumbles to a farmhouse, is welcomed by a family, eats heartily, plays with the children, and becomes part of their days until old age ends the tale.

Little Bear Piggie Daddy Evelyn Jack

Insect Life Expert and Summer Camping Notes

Butler College entomologist John B. Smith writes Our Insect Friends and Enemies a readable guide on insects and their impact on people pets and crops. The piece highlights camping options and features from Country Life in America June including a floating camp on two pontoons and a house boat vacation with practical building directions.

John B. Smith Butler’s College America

Ben Hur program at Washington High honors graduates

Washington High School will hold commencement at the Graham opera house on June 2 for the class of nineteen. The program blends a class song diplomas and an original Ben Hur based entertainment. Scenes from the novel feature Messala Ben Hur Tirzah and Esther in authentic costumes with a three part format and a class sermon set for May 29 at the same venue.

Ernut Washington High School Graham Opera House Lew Wallace The Gass Bern Helen Cowden Hur Alma Miller wa-Hur Earl Madore Hattie Wenger Tirzah Grace Ingham Arnott Wylite Howard Motts Merle Samson Jas Ina Crone Esther Opal Rickey

Chicago businessman to spend days with Asher family

W Blain Asher of Hibbard Spencer & Bartlett in Chicago will arrive home this evening to spend a few days with his parents Mr and Mrs W H Asher.

C. H. Davis West Chester Wayland C. W. Schlatter John McConahey Mt. Union City Havre F. M. Smith O. E. Lewis M. Kk. Brown Winfield Burlington H. C Boyer D. A. Boyer Hahnemann Medical College Chicago Garrick Theatre Metropolitan Hospital New York City Harry Montgomery Mrs. Montgomery Hugh Arthur Pleasant Plain T. W. Brown W. Blain Asher Hibbard Spencer & Bartlett Company Mrs W. H. Asher

Borrowed Smiles in a Homely Carnival of Witty Cuts

A portly older man finishing a feast pockets a dollar from an ash tray and strolls away with a calm stride. In a series of comic exchanges a maid, teacher, and child deliver quips about memory vice versa and the nature of chumps.

Harvard stereotype challenged by student earnings claim

A New York Mail quote asserts a Harvard sophomore can rely on about $125 monthly from poker and $40 from casino earnings, countering the notion that Harvard is only for the rich. The speaker contends that statistics show between one quarter and one third of Harvard students are self supporting.

Marvard Harvard New York Mail

Local Post Commander Praises Foley Kidney Pills

Mr Isaac Cook of Kewanee Illinois writes that after months of backache and kidney pain he began Foley Kidney Pills and soon felt relief. He credits the medicine with eliminating discomfort and plans to recommend it widely.

Isaac Cook Above Post Kewanee, Ill Foley

Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Baltimore Woman

A Baltimore testimonial extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments including irregularities, displacements, backache, and nervous prostration after other methods failed. The letter invites others to try the remedy and seek Mrs Pinkham's advice in Massachusetts.

Baltimore W. 8 Ford W. Franklin St Lydia BE. Pinkham Lydia E. Brakhan

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