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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1919
Page
6
The page lists shop ads and town notices for Lyon and Crawfordsville area readers. Mentions include Crail rugs, Lyon cookies, Fox and Dewey shoes, taxi service, water rent payment deadlines, and residents visiting relatives. Several names appear with travel plans and local businesses, plus small ads for medicine and hair care.
Indigestion sufferers grow discouraged but Chamberlain's Tablets offer lasting relief. The ad claims hundreds have been permanently cured and can eat any food while the tablets strengthen the stomach to function naturally. If you have not tried them.
A subscription notice invites readers to obtain club price lists and arrange a coy magazine through the Journal. It directs calls to 59 tech or letters to care of the Journal, noting a named agent.
Among those registered as students at Monmouth college this year are Robert Risk Miss Jean Hay and Merle Green of Washington. Monmouth will have a large Washington enrollment this year. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Taylor and children Paul and Velda who have been visiting their cousin Mrs Lydia Sommers near Kalona were in town this morning en route to Prairie City. Mrs Lydia Sommers Miss Delis Snyder and Roy Sommers accompanied them and are spending the day here.
Sheriff Meekins arrested Marion Whaley a returned soldier at the Hoffman farm ten miles northeast of Webster City for allegedly raping 15 year old Flor ence Browning. He was jailed pending a preliminary hearing after the victim recovers enough to testify.
The Kalamazoo area has a quirky origin story tied to the Kalamazoo River and its Indian name Ki Kelamazoo meaning boiling pot. Town founder Titus Jonson settled near the St Joseph Trail, and the city once bore Bronson before adopting Kalamazoo.
The photoplay Extravagance stars Dorothy Dalton in a tale of a rich illusion. John Lynch adapts a story about wealthy characters who live beyond their means to project status. directed by Victor Schwertzinger under the supervision of Thomas H Ince. Graham Theatre screens next Friday.
The musical comedy Honolulu Lou arrives at the Graham Theatre on September 15. The show features glamorous gowns lively performances and ample songs with strong laughs and charming cast members. Produced by the Wim Wansher Amusement Co. it promises top entertainment value for the season.
A fragment from a Rhine town dialogue mocks language mixups caused by war. An American traveler asks in broken German about yesterday, while the reply references sleep, chocolate parties, cognac, piano playing, and a looming headache as the scene ends with a grim morgen.
Mrs Volta Bankson of Chile Edhe Missouri recounts relief from indigestion liver congestion and dizziness after using Chamberlains Tablets She says the remedy did her a world of good and she will always speak well of it through Lemmon's Drug Store advt
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