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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1907
Page
6
Mand Ballington Booth, famed orator and lecturer, commands top speaking fees to fund Hope halls for parolees. She draws large audiences, with offices in New York City and a Montclair New Jersey home, and she seeks 300 season tickets for a Washington lecture series.
A 30 piece Indian band will appear at Graham in October. They will wear Indian costumes for part of the show. Tickets are priced low for all ages: lower floor 50 cents, balcony 35, gallery 25. school children receive discounts.
Mr and Mrs Frank Macon and A E Wilbur arrived home last evening from Ainsworth where they attended the Jeffrey stock sale yesterday.
A Washington Iowa druggists advertises Vinol a cod liver extract tonic claiming strong health benefits for the aged weak nursing mothers and those recovering from illness. It promises appetite boost and improved weight with a money back guarantee.
The Kansas City Times cites Dr. W. M. Cross noting formaldehyde as a common milk preservative and offers a simple test using sulfuric acid to detect it. It also describes a U S Department of Agriculture method to distinguish genuine butter from oleomargarine by boiling a small sample and observing foam and sputtering behavior.
Local notes list many residents visiting or traveling to and from Wellman Ainsworth Crawfordsville and Des Moines. Mentions include Eugene Keiser new Globe barber in town and Dr Shoop Restorative for stomach kidney and heart troubles. Also announces Tempest and Sunshine at Graham on October 10 with elaborate staging by Lem Parker and W F Mann.
Fashionable women returning from abroad bring enameled metal birds tucked with gems to the United States. A London letter notes a great fancy for these toys, with life sized pheasants for table decorations and smaller birds arranged around fruit and flowers in an osier basket, evoking open air sport.
Dr Shoop offers trial catarrh treatments mailed free on request. The service demonstrates the value of Catarrh Remedy without cost, sold by J H Stewart. Mrs T Y Wickham Jr and daughter arrived from Chicago en route to Keota. the Wickhams plan to move to Philadelphia. Mr and Mrs Thomas Craig visited Eldon for their daughter Mrs Mattie Craig Redans illness.
There is on file in the clerk of the District Court of Washington County Iowa a last will and testament of a deceased person and Tuesday November 1907 has been fixed as the time for proving said will. M. E. Logan Clerk of the District Court.
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