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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1906
Page
3
Showers and thunderstorms and cooler tonight. Saturday remains threatening with possible showers and cooler conditions across east and central Iowa.
Local items list occasional visitors shoppers and business trips across Vienna Crawfordsville Keota Davenport Muscatine West Branch and Wayland with notices of shops Duncan's Keck Floral Co. Stuart's Vienna cake and ham ads and Easter chicken sales.
The Easter program at St. John's features organ voluntaries at 10 45 and 7 30, a Sunday school concert with solos and recitations, responsive psalter readings, and multiple anthems including This Is the Day and Why Seek Ye the Living. Readings cover Matthew Mark and John, with hymns and benediction concluding the service.
Carl Burris and Dennis Clancy prepare a new short order space named The Gong just north of Barret and Link meat market. The room is being newly papered and painted for lunch and short orders with cigars and tobaccos. They expect to be ready mid next week and anticipate steady trade.
Advertises a homestead program by Peck & Taylor of Washington Iowa offering land at low prices with no rent interest or taxes for five years. Encourages writing for prices and terms to obtain a home of one’s own.
An old newspaper notice advertises horse clipper grinding services at W. E. Groendycke’s opposite the opera house. It also features an ad for Chamberlain's Remedy for babies, touting its pleasant taste and quick cough and cold relief, claimed to prevent pneumonia and croup, sold by Cook and Sherman and Stewart's Pharmacy.
The itemization lists onion sets at Keck Fioral Co and Easter foods at Nicola Harmon's and Johnsons with devil food angel food pound cake and other cakes. A license to wed was issued to Cruz Melhaffey and Eva Deweese of Kalona. J M Littlejohn delivered an osteopathy address. R H Mapel installed a De Laval at Sam Statler farm near West Chester.
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