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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1907
Page
7
A health focused piece extols a cheerful healthy woman as charming and recommends Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female health issues. It cites testimonials from New York women praising relief from headaches back pain bleeding and nervous symptoms and invites readers to consult Mrs. Pinkham in Massachusetts for guidance.
A fragment from a New York World feature shows Jimmie asking why he would be a good peer and Edwin replying with a biting insult about being so blame fish looking that no one would have the heart to lug him.
Cleveland plans a grand boulevard eighty feet wide along the Rockefeller estate with a central grass strip and shade trees. John D. Rockefeller and city rulers back the project linking to the park system as part of an extensive development. The avenue will extend miles east of Cleveland, with macadam paving and extensive land interests involved.
Cleveland Heights plans two thousand additional paving funds. Trolley poles along Mayfield road will be centered and hidden by trees with ornamental arms. Sidewalks and twenty foot grass plots flank the round road. Cleveland Electric and Cleveland and Eastern railways will add double tracks. Sections currently with single tracks will be rebuilt. Car tracks run through the grass roadway. Six-year discussion ends as work begins next year on Coventry road connecting with Shaker Lakes. Thoroughfare to be widened to 130 feet.
Sydney H. North argues in a pamphlet that geologists mark a shift from the aqueous to the bituminous period and stresses that water degrades roadways below the surface. Tar and its products are favored to bind dust without mud, endure heat frost and traffic, and be safe for horses and tires.
E P Dusenberry left for Oskaloosa on business. Mr and Mrs Merton Teeter and daughter Mary Elizabeth arrived from Cedar Rapids. J M Huston of Vancouver Washington returned to Winfield after a day in the city. Rev W G Robertson returned to Crawfordsville after a city visit. J W Logue visited with his brother Nate at Morrison and returned home. Dixon Co reports sale of 158 acres of the Chas Noecker farm to Harve Wilson for 128 dollars an acre. Nathan Metzgar traveled through on return from Columbus Junction. Mr and Mrs W J Maxwell of Kroca Iowa headed to Crawfordsville for a game at the Maxwell home. McElhinney Drug Co adopts sky advertising with a banner stating McElhinney Drug Company North Side.
A 30 piece fully Indian band will play at Sthe Graham on October 16. Musicians will wear Indian costumes for part of the program. Admission prices are low for all ages with discounts for school children. Lower floor 50 cents, balcony 35 cents, gallery 25 cents. School children pay 35, 25, and 10 cents respectively.
The dramatization of Mary J. Holmes novel Tempest and Sunshine by Lem B. Parker features beautiful scenery and period costuming from 1850. Strong Southern melodrama with comic darky servants, praised as a top recent success and urged for first class theatergoers to attend. Also a brief ad for Preventics cold tablets marketed by J. H. Stewart.
A ringer profile calls Algy a beauty, with Gerald noting the fine solitaire from Inc New York World as a standout.
A health ad promises relief for stomach and heart nerves with Dr Shoop restoratives. It urges readers to write for free samples and mentions mailing tests to prove effectiveness, with J H Stewart as a seller.
A humorous report from a social scene depicts a contestant claiming to be Helen of Troy while a reporter quips about her size as he misreads weights. The note also previews Tem pest and Sunshine a Mary J Holmes drama at the Graham on October 10 with two Southern sisters and romantic complications.
A New York World note extols the St George highway in Knox County Missouri as a low cost durable road. It describes an eighteen foot wide, well drained surface costing 50 cents per foot and 2640 dollars per mile, built with layered stones and granite chips compacted by horse drawn rollers. It praises the road's drainage and durability.
Twenty years ago Geo W Brock discovered Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a fast safe cure for bowel complaints. He, publisher of the AberdeenMd Enterprise, has used and recommended it many times with never disappointing results. For sale by Cook and Sherman.
Notice that a document filed in the District Court of Washington County Iowa is proposed as the last will and testament of Flitner. The will will be probated on Tuesday November 5 1907 at the court in Des Moines.
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