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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
6
An advertisement seeks work on a farm offering water pumping, feed grinding, washing, and cream separator tasks. The speaker promises no visits to the hired girl and staying home for chores, offering arrangements to employ the helper at low cost.
Foley's Honey and Tar claims to clear constipation and air passages, soothe throat irritation, heal inflamed membranes, stop stubborn coughing, and expel the cold. Lemmon's Pharmacy promotes the remedy. Miss Anita Goetz returns home to Muscatine after visiting here with friends.
New York November 19 Judge Hough directed acquittal and dismissal in the peonage conspiracy case against David E Harley agent of the Florida Fast Coast Railroad. The trial heard extensive testimony of alleged false inducements to laborers who were then kept in coerced camp labor on Florida coast islands. The judge ruled the charge was conspiracy and not proven by the conduct.
London reports claim the uprising over free schools at St Pierre Miquelon has sparked talk of transferring the French island group to Britain in exchange for other territory.
Genevieve Winterbotham of Chicago wed Frank R. Mowrer United States consul general in Copenhagen at the Citadel church on November 19.
The official forecast through 8 PM notes fair skies across Illinois Indiana Wisconsin and Illinois area with continued mild temperatures. Lower Michigan also sees fair conditions and little temperature change.
In 778 Charlemagne’s rear guard under Roland faces a vast Saracen army at Roncesvalles. The siege, heroism, and Roland’s death boost chivalry and Christian power, shaping legend and Europe’s morale against conquest.
Local notes report arrivals including R. H. Clyde and Mrs Joseph Murphy and John Strouse visiting from Havre. Warnings of upcoming winter illnesses cite pneumonia pleurisy and consumption and promote Foley's Honey and Tar from Lemmon's Pharmacy as a cure and lung strengthener.
Miss Edith Jayne spent yesterday in the city and returned to her West Chester home aboard the Firefly.
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