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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1911
Page
6
An ad touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a simple, grandmotherly cure for thinning or gray hair. It claims to clean the scalp, promote growth, restore color, and safeguard hair health for all ages, offered at fifty cents a bottle through McWimney Drug Co agents.
Washington readers are urged to try Merital Tonic Digestive a general tonic said to strengthen nerves improve digestion and energize the entire system. The advertisement claims the tonic is prepared by chemists of wide renown and offered at Saymon's Pharmacy.
Totals club fielding average cited with a .298 team mark. The local team recorded 12 shutouts to date and was blanked from scoring in three games.
The Joy Riders lost to What Cheer 3 to 0 as Leverich pitched for the visitors and Bill Rebek starred behind the plate. What Cheer had five hits to nine for the Joy Riders, with all three runs coming on errors. The lineup included Leverich, Rebek, Thompson, Wageman, Lucas, Davis, George, Delay, and Dewey. Davis and Delay live in Cedar Rapids. Claire Dewey is a local. Tomorrow the barnstormers visit Kalona to play Iowa City.
Advertisement urges use of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with castor oil for bawel complaints in children. Claims cure is certain and palatable when diluted with water and sweetened. For sale by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
For coughs colds croup and bronchitis it promises quick decisive results. Protect your children and yourself with Foley's Honey and Tar Compound available at all druggists.
In Cincinnati Chicago beats Cincinnati 5 to 3 as Keefe and siclean pitch. In Boston New York win 9 to 6 with Marquard Crandell and Myers guiding the offense. Second game New York thump Boston 11 to 8 behind Matty Myers and Hardy. At Philadelphia Brooklyn defeats Philadelphia 11 to 6 with Knetner Rucker and Erwin contributing.
The excerpt lists multiple city locations including St Louis New York Washington and Cleveland with accompanying names such as Scott and Block Petty and Stephens Coombs and Lapp Warhop Caldwell Blair Cicotte O’Brien Nunsmaker Groome Street Tillet Summers Stanage Tropp Falkenberg Fisher and others indicating a series of scores fees or transactions.
The Washington High School football squad, largely returning players from last year, begins preparations under captain Carl Guthrie. A eight game schedule is planned with two games each against Winfield and Morning Sun, with primeras dates likely, including opening Sept 30 at home versus Winfield. Coaching help may include Thompson Brookhart and Leigh Bell.
The piece surveys tech ideas like a tempo measure to the tenth millionth second and a coin slot device for train speed. It reports English wages for railroad workers and rising tourist travel, with projections of 700000 travelers to Western centers in five years as transcontinental tunnels near James Peak.
Fragmentary sports results list several city matchups with partial scores. Indianapolis led Columbus 33 to 5 in one game and 2 to 2 in another tied effort. Milwaukee hosted Minneapolis 6 to 5 while Kansas City yielded 9 to Atee City.
A Rexall Store advertisement promotes Rexall Orderlies as a soothing tonic for constipation and bowel disorders in the aged and frail. The product is claimed to be non irritative and non GI side effects, sold in 5c, 10c and 2 for at Cook & Sherman on the Ss. W. Square corner.
Pure bred Poland China hogs for sale March and April farrow and some fall yearling males sired by Junction Chief Black Giant and Longfellow. Trio of males described as hard to equal, over six feet in length with nine inch bone. Guaranteed breeder stock. G B R Van Kleek Kreota Iowa one mile west of West Chester.
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