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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1910
Page
4
A dated notice lists new telephone subscribers and updates, urging readers to note changes to improve service. The fragmentary text mentions names, numbers, and local references, with instructions to record changes for enhanced connectivity.
Wellman residents report cattle shipments by W T Hamilton and sales by William Wade Jr. Several visitors arrive from Chicago Valparaiso and Iowa City. New farm plans and property sales occur with talk of moving to Canada and a public auction set for October 15.
Fifty years ago on October 10 a blast at Hell Gate exploded more than 282000 pounds of rackarack and dynamite to remove flood rock blocking Mast River and Long Island Sound. The General Grant Monument association reported total contributions of 58821921 dollars. General Grant died July 23 1885.
Ladies may claim free tickets before 7 p m for Graham show featuring Henry B Harris play Class mates with William Macaulay Oct 15. Powell and Cohen musical au courant opens three nights tonight with The Yathee Doodle Boy and Cupid and the Pure Fighter My Queen in Calico. Miss Portello leads a 24 member company, praised for range and salary. Prices 1.00 1.50 and 15 25 35 cents. ladies free tonight.
An advertisement asserts Foley's Honey and Tar in the yellow package is genuine safe and effective with no opiates. Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co. are named as sources for this medicine and its substitutes.
Pure bred pigs of both sexes for March and April farrowing sired by Chief and Lonefellow and Junction Chief hogs of the bic smooth type. Six years of satisfied customers is my best advertisement. Lonefellow, my two year old boar, is for sale.
Alonzo B. Cornell recalls discovering that telegraph messages could be read by ear when out of tape at Albany in the early fifties. He describes testing by sending slowly and distinctly, proving the method workable and predicting widespread use, while crediting himself as the first to make the discovery in telegraphic history.
The article advises that a hot horse may be given three to four swallows of cool water, with small drinks every few minutes for several cycles, then allowed a full drink. Inexperienced handlers should instead let the horse stand without water for about thirty minutes to cool down.
A child notices dew droplets on the grass at daybreak and confuses the sparkling beads with sweat. The remark captures a playful, observational moment described as a fragment from the St. Louis Star.
A reflective note credits failures as catalysts for progress within Halliburton and praises resilient, heroic minds shaping future success at the company.
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