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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
3
W B Patton is praised for blending pathos and comedy in Prof Steele the Blockhead. The reviewer notes natural, intelligent performance with love scenes and says the engagement begins Saturday October 17. Hall's Catarrh Cure ad promises $100 reward for incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's products.
Clinton Price chairman of the Democratic state central committee was in the city briefly last evening en route from Des Moines to Davenport.
Frank McClean of Washington Iowa advertises readiness to do wood sawing in town or country. Phone number 494 green. 2-tf
Miss Inez Salladay came home this morning after an overnight visit with her grandmother in Ainsworth.
Remember the Jesse Brown farm sale Friday October 16. See John Teeter about it. 446 Clayton Neiswanger resumed his duties as city mail carrier this morning after vacation. Mr. and Mrs. H A Mannhardt of 704 Newell avenue departed for Washington to visit relatives and friends for a few days. Dr Sexton dentist located on the first stairway north of the post office in Muscatine. Foley's Studio announced a big variety of new style photo mounts. Hanley returned yesterday from Des Moines on a business trip.
A bold advert promises Rexall Mucu-Tone cures catarrh and debility with a money back guarantee if no cure is achieved. It claims the product acts through the stomach to purify blood, heal tissues, and boost nutrition, available in 50c and 1.00 sizes from Cook & Sherman.
Enos Mills of the Government Forestry department spoke at the Methodist church on Our Friends the Trees. He urged forest protection and reforestation, noting wood supply could exhaust in twenty three years if unchecked, and praised birds like the woodpecker for insect control. He described his Rocky Mountain experiences and urged landowners to plant and protect forests to prevent erosion and floods.
Mrs W D Beatty was moved from Sigourney to the Rock Island line bound for St Louis to seek treatment at the Missouri Baptist sanitarium. She had two major operations without relief and travels with Mr Beatty Mrs Dr Beatty and a nurse. William Bickford of Washington Iowa returned home after a brief Muscatine visit.
A Wheeling reader reports severe illness and quitting work, claims Vinci tonics rebuilt strength and energy, saying he feels twenty years younger and back to work. The ad promotes Vinci as a blood-building tonic with cod liver oil elements and offers money-back satisfaction.
A married man is guilty of neglect if he allows any family member to take substances other than Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung trouble. The ad claims Foley's Honey and Tar is best for pulmonary issues and notes a genuine version in a yellow package sold at Lemmon's Pharmacy.
For sale. The Everson property adjoining the City Library includes lot seven in block nine and lot one in block twenty six in Highland Park. Sale to close the estate of Mrs. E. E. Everson. For price and terms contact A. Anderson, Executor.
Occident Flour is sold with a guarantee that promises a refund for every sack not meeting quality. Wm. A. Whiting. 82-if.
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