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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1910
Page
5
Bargain week items include large coast sealed oysters four cents per quart and shell oyster crackers one dollar per bushel. Meats and staples priced low with hams lard sausage and washing powders listed. Fresh fish dressed poultry also advertised at low prices.
A flurry of local movements and visits as residents travel to Keota Davenport Letts West Chester Pella and Brighton. Moves include g entries for Barbara Brinning Huston Dean George and McCulley families plus multiple shipments and barbecues. Bradley Jeweler promotes a large stock sale and a piano giveaway by Caner Music Co.
The Caner Music Co starts its Annual Piano Contest inviting patrons to buy tickets for 5 cents in trade. Prize bread flour from CERESOTA FLOUR, Minneapolis, is offered as a feature, with the promise of guaranteed quality and money back if unsatisfied. Seldon L. Stewart is named as agent in Ntseod.
A miniature tale recounts Tom, a tiny boy, wandering from his mother’s kitchen. He falls into a pudding pot after a milk spill and is discovered in the peddler’s bundle when the pudding flies from the kitchen door. His mother bathes him, ties him to grass to milk a cow, and he narrowly avoids being crushed by the cow’s movements.
J A Marsh of Ainsworth and Chal Ford with J B Huffman visited Burlington on business. Dr and Mrs Caldwell of West Chester called in the city. J M Bratton returned from a Kansas trip. William Kenneman editor of Riverside Leader was in town. Elizabeth Dawson traveled to Winfield to visit Eva McCaw. Mrs J D Burns of Burlington arrived for a several days visit. Daisy McFarland and Mrs M Delong of Crawfordsville shopped in the city. M E Brown went to Crawfordsville to visit B F Brown. Mr and Mrs Kleese Hartman left for Des Moines for two weeks. Mr and Mrs Harry Morgan of Aberdeen SD arrived for a few days with friends. Mrs Elmer Wells and grandson Elmer Hughes and Mrs McMullen went to West Chester for a visit. Mrs Geo Reed learned an aunt Mrs Frank Reed was killed in an interurban wreck near Peoria Ills while en route to St Louis for a convention.
Prof K J Miller of Chicago University proposes a rigid self examination for A B degree candidates. He wants students to answer pointed questions about love for a child sympathy for good causes honesty in others judgment of weak and vulnerable, law and money, happiness in drudgery and the value of time and money. The test asks about seeing beauty in daily chores and finding sunshine in a mud puddle.
For more than thirty years Foley's Honey and Tar has been a household favorite for coughs colds and throat chest and lung ailments. Contains no opiates Lemmon's Pharmacy McElhinney Drug Co.
A brief notice lists the Fortnightly general meeting to be held Thursday. The item includes a fragment about gratitude and a weary speaker, noting a penny purchase for a postcard and a thank you.
The Ladies Benevolent Society of the Presbyterian church will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. 8. B. Dewey. The Court of Honor installs officers Friday evening October 7 at 7 30 with State Manager Smith in charge. The Second Woman's Missionary Society holds an all day meeting in the church parlors tomorrow Friday.
The Woman's Mission Circle of the Baptist church will hold their regular program meeting at the home of Mrs. Forgey Friday afternoon October 7 at 2 30. A full attendance is desired as officers for the coming year will be elected.
Des Moines resident offers short term assistance for a business as a switch maker. Ladies invited to bring combings or cut and finish work. Fresh Melba toilet articles, cleanser and powder on sale at the Parlor in the Mide C Lewis Millinery store run by Mrs N L Black.
Late day night police and a special agent of the Chicago Western railroad arrested twelve Roumanians, an employee of the company, for stealing from cars in transit. Ten trunks containing over 500 dollars worth of goods go to stock a general store.
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