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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1908
Page
3
Extra good farms and town residence and business property at bargain prices near West Chester in Washington county Iowa. Also a first class elevator and coal business and six business lots. 23d J. D. Dayton West Chester Iowa.
The notice promotes Foley's Kidney Remedy naming Hexamethyle netetramine as a supposed uric acid solvent and antiseptic for urine. It urges taking the product at first irregularities and warns against serious illness citing Lemmon's Pharmacy.
W H Hughes departed last evening for a brief business trip to Des Moines, intending to stay a few days for meetings and engagements.
Iowa City witnesses a student protest on election day as liberal arts students seize a fellow student and force him down stairs while a yellow stock and ducking stool mock humiliation. Dean Gregory and Registrar Barrett intervene to stop further actions as authorities threaten discipline. The professional schools cancel classes for two days and the university closes as a half holiday is declared for the liberal arts.
Harry L. Goodies of Ashtabula Ohio writes that after five years of relief from chronic dyspepsia using Mi-ona he bought a 50 cent box from R W Knowlton's drug store and then another, now sleeping well and able to eat normally. He urges others with similar symptoms to try the remedy.
W V Henry of Panama Missouri touts seven years proof that Dr King’s New Discovery relieves throat chest and lung ailments. The ad claims thirty eight years proven as the best remedy for coughs colds lagrippe asthma hay fever bronchitis and early consumption with pneumonia prevention. Sold at J E Lemmon’s drug store 50c and 1.00 trial bottle free.
Mrs Rebecca Vet a wealthy widow and her son J Nelson Veit a Wall Street broker were found dead in their upper Broadway apartment hotel. The mother was shot while Veit suffocated by gas with a pillow under his head in the bathroom door locked suggesting suicide after his mother’s death. Police tie tragedy to a secret marriage revealed to the mother. Miss Anna Veit discovered the bodies. Veit 27 had a secret October 1906 marriage and had been living with Mrs Veit in an uptown apartment since October.
In Cannes France on November 5 Prince Louis D Orleans Braganza married Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon Sicily The elaborate ceremony drew representatives of allied noble families The princess was born in 1878.
In Kenner Louisiana scenes of chaos marked election day as rivals clashed at the polls. Regulars captured independent leader Colonel BE A Sullivan and shaved his beard, with pistols drawn in several encounters but only the beard trimmed. Regulars won according to returns.
Berlin November 5 four interpellations were moved in the reichstag asking Chancellor von Buelow to explain the imperial interview in which the Kaiser claimed he engineered the Boer defeat. The house carried a large majority resolution to postpone discussion to another sitting. The impression is that Prince von Buelow will be vindicated by a majority of the house.
The body of Pleasant M. Calloway an Elbridge township farmer missing since October 25 was found in a small ravine about a mile from his home. Police believe he died of apoplexy and note his past absences have caused little concern.
Tomas Estrada Palma, the first president of the Cuban republic, died last night in Havana. His death ends an era in Cuban politics and marks a watershed moment for the new nation.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as a cure for deafness caused by catarrh and inflamed Eustachian tube. Promises one hundred dollars for any case cured by constitutional remedies. Includes address in Toledo Ohio and note to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Mrs Florance Pyles of Columbus Junction and Mrs Elizabeth Pyles of Nebraska were guests at the J D Nelson home during the last week.
A physician says rumors of multiple diphtheria cases are unfounded and confirms one case at the W. B. Ross home. The Heights school has been disinfected and Ross boys are not exposed or staying home.
The Winfield ladies who were entertained yesterday at the Cardes and Nutt homes returned last evening on the Burlington.
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