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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1902
Page
3
A. T. Headley of Tilden Indiana suffered ten years of rheumatic tortures. After two bottles of Electric Bitters he was wholly cured and free of pain for over a year. The remedy regulates kidneys purifies the blood and cures rheumatism neuralgia and restores health. Only 50 cents at Stewart's drug store.
A church social postponed from next week will be held Friday evening at the Baptist parsonage. All members and friends of the congregation are cordially invited to attend, per the Social committee.
Martin Swift Jr expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for their kindness and help during the illness and death of his beloved wife.
Wim Spivey of Walton Furnace Vermont traveled 13 miles to obtain Bucklen Amnica Salve which completely healed a severe fever sore on his leg. The advertisement asserts the salve cures bruises felons ulcers eruptions boils burns corns and piles and is sold for 25 cents with a guarantee by Stewart the druggist.
The Evening Journal presents a brief Iowa forecast for today and tomorrow. Expect partly cloudy skies tonight with possible showers in the southeast, and cooling conditions in the east and central regions. Friday should be fair with warmer temperatures in the western portion.
Local notes list city visitors and residents including Reuben Proudfit from Crawfordsville and Miss Jessie Besack arriving from Newton. U T D band scheduled to play at St James School Carnival with free admission. Mrs. Sam Hoyt traveling to Montpelier to visit daughter. Hulse family from Keota visiting Ashby on South Iowa avenue. Rocky Mountain Tea advertised by J H Stewart amid social notices and brief local commerce mentions.
Mr and Mrs J A Woodburn express heartfelt thanks to neighbors and friends for assistance and comforting words during their son Earl's illness and death. The family says these deeds will be held in living remembrance.
Joliet visitors like W. F. Dustin and Mrs L Teas were seen in the city yesterday. The St James School Carnival draws many residents and neighbors with free admission and fortune telling at the art gallery tonight.
About fifteen physicians from Washington County attended a semi annual meeting in City Hall with Dr Hay chairing. Four new members were admitted Dr Lease Crawfordsville Dr Cowden this city Dr Wells Kalona and Dr Wilden Riverside. Papers covered typhoid fever ophthalmia neonatorum and nomenclature with lively discussion and a possible operation for a newborn’s spinal deformity.
A 25-car track crew under Milwaukee engine No. S13 arrived in Muscatine to finish laying the Milwaukee cutoff. The foreman said another large gang would come from Cone, with 16 gangs total, to push work through winter toward Rutledge and beyond toward Washington, housing in fully equipped boarding cars with cooks and camp comforts.
An advertisement promises a seven room Washington home to be given away for a small sum or good paper. It directs readers to McKay & Meeks, and then Means & Stichter, described as the men who feed, for three square meals a day.
An old advertisement narrates a dramatic fire rescue and warns against neglecting coughs and colds. It promotes Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption with claims of protection for throat chest and lung troubles and urges purchase at Stewart's Pharmacy with trial bottles offered free and full price noted.
William Uht Jry and Grace Kk Clark of La Belle Missouri were married last evening at the bride's sister Mrs James Cowger home in Southeast Washington. Rev S K Coates officiated at five o clock with a few relatives present. A mult course supper followed and the couple will move to their La Belle home.
A Monett Missouri parent recalls using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to relieve a child with cramps before the doctor arrived. The product is sold by Stewart's Pharmacy and Cook & Sherman. A Friday program at St James School was postponed due to an incomplete listing.
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