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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1911
Page
5
The Vienna bakery offers cakes and candy as the city gears for the premiere of Just a Woman's Way at the Graham theatre tonight. The show features the Harem skirt and marks the first Washington appearance for the fashion.
A father narrates a fairy tale titled The Silver Feather about a princess who must have a prince with a matching feather to wed. A dragon holds a prince captive. the princess bravely rides to the dragon, touches its head with a silver feather, and frees the prince. They marry and live happily ever after.
Mrs Robe McGist returned home from a several days visit at Wound Mee Roy McGugin in Chicago. Mr and Mrs Jan Redd hosted about twenty friends and relatives at their Washington street home for their twenty fifth wedding anniversary. A pleasant evening featured a social hour and a luncheon, with guests from Davenport and Okla?os receiving silver keepsakes.
A Houston cow wandered into a Congress Avenue book store on Monday drawing attention from locals. The incident adds to a pattern of town cows showing literary interest, with speculation they may explore topics like theosophy and Greek in time.
Obituary notes the death of George Wotah a county pioneer born near Pittsburgh on September 14 in 1840. He moved through Crawfordsville Ainsworth Dutch Creek to the city and lived there for decades. Survived by a wife nine daughters thirty six grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Funeral at 2 pm Monday at the Ish residence near Fifth Street opposite the city water works.
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