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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1909
Page
6
The school board handles a flood of applications for the local superintendency with two candidates visiting yesterday and two the day before. Letters arrive in groups and phone inquiries rise as the board works to select a candidate pleasing to the public. Wash boilers and tubs at the Fair st.
Funeral services for Mrs. J. M. Mace were conducted at 11 oclock yesterday from her daughter Mrs Eva Wallace home in Lexington with Rev O E Hat Held officiating. Interment followed at Elm Grove cemetery. Pallbearers were her grandchildren W Thrapp Glen Mace Lafe Raleigh and Ernest Meeks. Also noted was W Wilbur of Grand Rapids Michigan visiting A E Wilbur and E M Hull who left for home. An advertisement for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea appears.
A collage of notices from Washington highlights fair items such as hardware kitchen goods and 31 New Haviland dinner ware. Local residents including S J Miller Chauncey Myers J B Johnson and others visit or travel for business while ads promote Rexall Mucu Tone with a personal guarantee and local pharmacy Cook Sherman.
Friday night program at the Presbyterian church promises a light concert featuring A Model College Girl The Shocgy Shop and other songs. Admission is 15 and 25 cents. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea offered as a health tonic at 35 cents.
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