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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
5
Advertisement offers high grade used automobiles in all makes at the lowest prices. Buyers pay on delivery and are asked to write for price and specify desired make. Vrooman provides a Chicago address at 1118 Fisher Building.
The narrative details Union forces landing at Hill's plantation near Deer Creek on March 21 and marching with Sherman on the 22nd. It notes a dinner skirmish that killed a plantation mistress and nearby black mourners pitifully lamenting. An 8th Mo picket’s fearful gesture signals an enemy volley twenty rods ahead, leaving a lasting memory of the lone post beset by rebels.
A tense moment described as a soldier refusing to flinch while holding a position, risking death or capture unless rescue arrived, illustrating grit and peril in a critical stand.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for incurable catarrh, claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures by affecting the blood and mucous surfaces, and lists endorsements from Walding Kinnan & Marvin and F J Cheney Co. It notes price 75 cents per bottle and urges purchases from all druggists, also touts Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Munson family of Nira Iowa express gratitude for kindness during illness and death of their daughter Margery Lovell Munson born Aug. 30 1907 in Washington County Iowa died Sept. 26 1908 at age 1 year 26 days. They note her death leaves two brothers and three sisters. Mr and Mrs Chas Munson.
Shel labarger's Pantatorium promotes coats skirts and suits with telephone contact listed. Al Darbyshire announces an October 22 milk cow sale and a 91-66 reference.
N H Brown of Pittsfield asserts long use of Dr King's New Life Pills removes stomach liver and bowel kinks without fuss or friction. Guaranteed satisfactory at J E Lemmon's drug store for 25 cents.
Patent attorney R W Bishop reports multiple Iowa based inventors receiving patent numbers 899511 through 900072 for devices including paraffining vessels eye case carrier concrete mixer draft timber protector horse collar crupper fastener loose leaf book grain binder throneing cabinet controller regulator pneumatic drill nailing machine bogey top attachment auscultaphone running gear game apparatus combined hand and hand fastener coal mining machine stock and hay rack and ditching machine various assignees and locations across Des Moines Spirit Lake Ottumwa Audubon Keokuk and other Iowa towns.
A Wisconsin father, A Wolkush of Casimer, credits Foley's Orino Laxative with saving his three year old son's life. The child suffered severe constipation and high fever. after two doses the fever disappeared and the boy recovered entirely by morning, per Lemmon's Pharmacy.
For sale 50 head of spring and fall pigs Poland China both sexes. Fall boars are good spring pigs are okay. Pigs sired by four different boars offering variety to buyers. J. Lemley two blocks south of Sunset park R. R. 9 Washington Iowa.
David Parker of Fayette New York, veteran of Gettysburg lost a foot in the Civil War, testifies that Electric Bitters cured his stomach trouble and now keeps him strong. He praises the tonic and notes its value, sold for 50 cents at J E Lemmon’s drug store.
Rev and Mrs Musselman and their son Dwight, Mrs John Roth with her daughter, and Mrs William Malenstien with daughter Emma were in the city yesterday from Wayland.
Joe Cable and wife Mrs. Jacob Cable joined Mr. and Mrs. Dave Meyer Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Boller and Levi Wenger as visitors in the city Wednesday, coming from Wayland.
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