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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
6
The Washington Telephone Co issues a new complete up to date directory reflecting late changes. Patrons are asked to call at the central office to obtain a copy, aiding in distributing the new books.
Frank Frazey and his wife of Bright-on visited yesterday at the home of their daughter Mrs. Frank McClean in the city.
A wartime era advertisement promises rapid relief from hacking coughs and colds using Hyomei medicated air. Buyers purchase a one dollar pocket inhaler at Lemmon's Pharmacy, use per directions, and can return it for a refund if no cure. The ad guarantees cure for catarrh croup grip and asthma.
Cotter and Burlington arrivals fill regional notice with travelers. D. C. Norton returns from Muscatine, H. T. Reynolds leaves for Des Moines on business. Mort Keeley arrives from the west on the Rock Island last evening.
Appanoose County poultry show at Centerville set for December 1 to 4. Mrs. S. K. Statler attended the show yesterday and returned to West Chester on the Firefly. Father Walsh arrived home from Chicago after attending a Catholic conference.
Good Show Mrs Elizabeth Porter of Muscatine arrived as a guest at the Harrie Horne home. Shorthand typewriting bookkeeping and penmanship classes are offered at the Academy this winter. Mrs C H Skipton of West Chester returned home after a city visit. Colin and Share advertise top prices for hides furs and junk via phone 387 Washington House.
Market quotes show wheat corn oats pork lard short ribs and cash sales with various contract months and sample prices. Local social notes mention visits by Mrs King from Allerton Miss Bessie Kyle and Miss Margaret Bauer of Omaha with friends and events attended by Mrs Murphy of Crawfordsville.
Tonight Cabinet photos offered at Cole's gallery for Christmas orders. Centerville hosts a poultry show December 2 3 and 4 featuring about fifteen hundred birds. Market quotes cover hogs cattle sheep hay and live stock across East Buffalo and Illinois Indiana Wisconsin with prices ranging per head and per hundredweight.
A New York holiday book guide highlights early buyers who select volumes with care. Featured titles include Ariel Booklets from G P Putnam Sons, Paul Elder’s personality books, Constance Johnson's When Mother Lets Us Cook, Lilly Haxworth Wallace's Rumford Cook Book, Myrtle Reed’s Flower of the Dusk, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom's Cabin staged by Leon W. Washburn's company.
Reports from Paris say disturbances at St. Pierre and Miquelon have not renewed. France enforces a law separating church and state but allows acts against employing teaching religious order members in local schools. Two sectarian teachers were prosecuted for opening a school without authorization. Discontent stems from the Anglo French treaty of 194. The U.S. consul is praised for a restrained balcony appearance during demonstrations.
Portland Oregon November 20 local commercial group asks Northwest Fruit Growers to select twenty prize winning apple boxes at the joint display with the State Horticultural Society and send ten boxes to King Edward and ten to the Kaiser.
Kansas City, Nov. 20. Christian Goodwin aged 71 a veteran fireman known as Old Chicago is dead at his home. He served in the Union army in the Civil War and joined the Chicago fire department in 1864. He helped fight the great Chicago fire of 1871 before joining the local department.
The forecast says Illinois and Indian Partly cloudy cooler. Lower Michigan Partly cloudy cooler in extreme west portions. Wisconsin Fair slightly cooler in southeast. Iowa Fair and cooler.
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