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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1909
Page
2
A collage of shop listings and social updates including Rothschild's cloaks dresses and skirts promotions, Vienna bakery candies and rolls, Frey studio photography, and social calls at Keota Wayland Davenport and Washington. Mentions of local buys, visits, and weekend football at Washington vs Winfield with 25 cent admission and other community happenings.
A new jewelry store is now open with a full line of jewelry and watch work. The shop offers clock and jewelry repairs, with all work guaranteed, located at the southwest corner square in Eich elberger Music store, 246 W. J. Bradley.
One hundred dollars reward for a case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. J Cheney Co Toledo. Walding Kinnan Marvip wholesale druggists attest to Cheney's honor and ability to fulfill obligations. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and targets blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. price per bottle. sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The McElhinney Drug Co announces it has secured the agency for Zemo, a remedy claimed to cure kerema pimples dandruff and scalp diseases. Zemo is described as a clean liquid for external use that provides instant relief and destroys the germ causing skin ailments.
The District Court of Appeals affirmed the DC Supreme Court ruling holding AFL leaders Samuel Gompers, William Morrison, and John Mitchell in contempt for Buck Stove and Range. They face imprisonment as a result of the contempt verdict.
Special to Evening Journal reports City Marshal Patrick Hatton was shot and killed in Carroll after capturing robbers near Glidden. The assailants were recaptured.
The passage describes a conductor as a moving office on wheels carrying waybills cash and tickets plus handling bookings from freight to passenger service. It notes responsibility for train safety discipline and signs for train orders while preventing counterfeit tickets and ejecting paying passengers or dealing with disruptive conductors as part of Chesterfieldian standards referenced in Outing Magazine.
A Chicago News report recalls a conductor delaying a passenger to wait for two grandchildren who arrive with their grandmother. The scene shows a compassionate moment as the family reunites aboard the train and departs, while the conductor’s thoughts remain private.
College Park Maryland November 2 Lieutenant Lahm in the army aeroplane broke all endurance marks by remaining aloft for five minutes in a single flight. The duration surpasses any continuous flight by a pupil of Orville or Wilbur Wright in America, though their pupils abroad have greatly exceeded this.
Yesterday around 1 pm a man lying on the Branch track west of town appeared intoxicated but seemed to suffer heart trouble. Sheriff Black and City Marshal Davidson pursued with a handcar but encountered him walking toward town. He gave the name Stirling and said he resided near West Chester.
Captain William McCutcheon receives a brass six pounder cannon of the state and promises it will be kept ready for action. Brought from Des Moines where it stood on a rifle range the weapon is described as a rare piece with only three in the state and the sole one in southeast Iowa.
Mrs A N Keister and Mrs G K McFarland joined in Ainsworth yesterday to help Mrs John McFar meng celebrate her ninety third birthday.
Art Hazen will sell ten good Poland China brood sows near the Pleasant Hill church south at mile marker 24. The sale includes young brood stock raised by Hazen and aims to attract swine breeders and local farmers seeking quality stock.
Public schools will be closed Thursday and Friday this week to allow teachers to attend the State Teachers' association in Des Moines.
A pie social will be held at the No 11 school house one and one half miles east of town on Friday evening November 5th. Proceeds support the local community fund and all are welcome.
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