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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1906
Page
3
An advertisement asserts Foley’s Kidney Cure will treat kidney and bladder troubles within the reach of medicine. The notice targets potential buyers and urges consulting a druggist for more details.
Mrs Mary H Walters of Columbus Ohio suffered severe weakness from useless drugs and nerves failing to sleep She credits Electric Bitters with a rapid improvement and full cure The Muscatine Journal notes Mrs P Knotts and Miss Gertrude Todd preparing to visit Washington on the Firefly with relatives
Dublin dispatch reports A C Miksch and J L Mayer sold Emil Anderson a bunch of young cattle this morning. Rit Maxwell and family and Grandma McCaleb visited Jake Mayer's Sunday. A D Sanders seeks more cattle and will be the new justice with Lee Craig as constable after a Democratic caucus. A box supper is planned at New Haven schoolhouse Friday. Elmer Swickard and family are Washington visitors today.
Sept 26 Bruce Fox of Fairfield spent Sunday at home. Mr and Mrs Will Storms visited friends in Eldon Saturday. Mr and Mrs Albert Tracy of Oak are here visiting relatives. Shirley Downs left Sunday for Waterloo.
A long string of brief items notes travel to Coffeyville to work in a glass factory, trips to Iowa City and Wisconsin, a Republican convention in Washington, and returns from Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Missouri. It also lists millinery displays, school absences, illness, new employment at Iowa City State Bank, and travel to Crawfordsville, Langsville, and Packwood with various family visits and retail notices.
Sept 25 notes show Ed Rinner delivering a horse to a Washington buyer. A Brenamen of Tavistock Ontario visits relatives. Attendees from here go to Winfield fair. Sam Weaver and wife with Miss Ida Wenger tour Missouri. Garrad family of Wayland visit John Leeper. Frey and Mast install a windmill for Harve Leeper. Lillian Marshall and two girls visit Alex Doran’s family. Livingston and son Clyde plaster Jonathan Conrad’s house. Effie Leeper teaches near Cotter and visits home. John and Mary Bigham join Joe Roth and wife at Eicher home. Roth brothers from New Hamburg arrive to visit.
The Lexington Epworth League invites members and friends to a sociable at the home of J Cullumber on Friday evening September 28. Miss Agnes Stewart left this morning for Chicago after an extended visit with relatives here.
The forecast for Iowa today and tomorrow calls for fair skies with cooler tonight and possible frost in the northern portion. Thursday should be fair.
The James Hayes indicted by the grand jury and serving a jail sentence here is not a city resident. His home was recently in Eldon, clarifying confusion with others of the same name in town. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve advertised as quickest cure for burns and skin ailments at Stewart's Drug Store for 25 cents, with a guarantee.
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