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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
3
The Parsifal production at the Gra ham Opera House highlights the Flower Garden scene with its Flower Maidens. Klingsor tempts Parsifal in a vivid, sensuous setting but the hero resists, culminating in a thunderous finale where the magic castle collapses and Parsifal reveals triumph of good over evil.
If a person suspects kidney trouble they should take Foley's Kidney Remedy at once to avoid Bright's disease or diabetes. Delaying allows the disease to gain a foothold. Use Foley's Kidney Remedy from Lemmon's Pharmacy.
President Roosevelt appeals to farmers and families in a Jordanville audience of over a thousand. He urges mothers and wives to support work, warns against shirkers and trickery, and champions honest labor, social use of libraries, and hard knocks for character.
Dr A F Tredgold, English physician and Royal Commission investigator on feeble mindedness, declares that tramps are the sanest class in the community. He cites a lower percentage of feeble minded among tramps than any other group, attributing it to the itinerant lifestyle and steady purpose required by travel.
The New York Sun notes melancholy days approach and leaves fall as people anticipate vacations and changing seasons with trepidation.
A survey of improbable rescues and near disasters chronicles a series of astonishing falls and escapes. Italian balloonist survives a 1000 foot collapse with a sprain, while a Frenchwoman perishes and her daughter survives a 1200 foot Alpine fall. Whymper and others narrate miraculous slips and recoveries from cliffs, towers, and parachute failures, ending with Wise’s balloon descent that folded into a makeshift parachute before a violent earth strike.
A New York Sun report describes a woman in a subway station weighing a narrow high oak box on a public penny scale instead of weighing herself. The box, with a stretched leather handle, weighed ten pounds, after which she calmly boarded a train with a smile.
The amoeba is a naked mass of protoplasm that flows through blunt processes in all directions. It is minute yet some are visible, moves by protruding processes, digests food upon contact, and divides into two daughter amoebas when enlarged, exhibiting feeding growth secretion and reproduction.
Local news lists J W Brier and A B Endicott of Brighton in town on business, Walter Greer James Casey eastbound, Porter Black from Iowa City visiting his uncle, Wm Black, and others in attendance or travel. The piece notes Mrs Frey, Susie and Mildred Morton returning from Davenport and the Boice family arriving home from Ft Madison. A theater notice promotes the Hidden Hand stage version at the opera house September 5 with Eugene Moore as author adaptor.
Foley s Orino Laxative is a new remedy that improves on older laxatives by not causing griping or nausea and is pleasant to take, guaranteed by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Geneva Pratt traveled to Columbus Junction last evening to spend a few days visiting relatives.
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