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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1912
Page
4
USS Prairie under Commander A H Seales arrives at Santo Domingo after a cut cable delayed earlier reports. The vessel carried 750 marines and the U S commission to investigate Santo Domingo uprising. Brig Gen Frank McIntire and W S Boyle are named. In Plava fighting by Montenegrins rages. 900 Albanians killed. Robert Bresnahan, manager of the St Louis Browns, is discharged after disputes with owner Mrs Helen Britton.
A dramatic monologue by a patient under medical orders to quit smoking. He laments withdrawal and craves a briar as his nerves fray and his temper flares, insisting smoking is his solace despite the doctor’s warnings. He prefers the smoke to life without it.
At a Farmers and Merchants state bank directors meeting last night B B Berdo was elected as an assistant cashier and will begin duties immediately. He has assisted the bank in recent months and impressed officers who made the appointment permanent. The active staff now includes A S White president, Ross Coulter cashier, and W A White alongside Berdo as assistant cashiers. The bank plans new quarters in a few months to improve service.
Enthusiasm rises as pupils and teachers promote an October 28 to November 1 high school art show. Proceeds buy pictures for schools, with prize works awarded to top ticket sellers. Exhibition runs daily with brief talks at 8 15, open to the public 4 00 to 6 00 and 7 30 to 9 30, admission 10 cents.
A Saratoga Indiana druggist Enos Lollar testifies after fifteen years of selling Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy that it is the best on the market. Lemmon’s Pharmacy offers the remedy for sale.
Cohan and Harris present Officer 666 a successful melodramatic farce at the Graham on Thursday Oct 24. The play features a sleuth in disguise a love story and a famous thief with dramatic thrills and comic relief. Ticket prices range from 50 to 150 cents.
Maurice J. Connor of Des Moines received a $1000 state reward from Massachusetts for saving two men at Nahant on September 22. The men were tangled in ropes after their dory capsized and the Nahant lifeboat was wrecked. Connor swam to the wreck, dived under the boat, and freed the ropes from the men’s legs.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease requiring constitutional treatment It claims to act through the blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure Proponents urge sending for testimonials and mention Toledo Ohio as the address of the makers Sold by all druggists.
Deep breathing is touted as an effective insomnia remedy by reducing brain brood to the lungs. The technique aims to calm the mind and promote restful sleep by controlled inhalation and exhalation.
Mrs Harold Howell of Des Moines state regent addressed the Iowa Daughters of the American Revolution in Council Bluffs on October 22. The talk sparked lively discussion on limiting chapter memberships and highlighted growing interest in American and state history. Howell praised chapter charitable work and the Memorial Continental Hall debt plan, noting a penny a day would fund the $650000 memorial. Descent certificates for contributors were described as beautiful keepsakes.
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