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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1911
Page
2
Last Sunday at Rubio the Kid Hlotle group fled an auto movie causing a rollover. Ralph Augustine escaped with minor bruises while Hlotle suffered multiple rib injuries and more, Dr. Droz attended from Keota and reports the patient resting reasonably.
A compilation of Saturday and Sunday visits across Wellman and Wyman Iowa towns. Includes families such as Steninger and Mellieker, Wig er sisters, Oldaker, Dodds, Mellicker, and Leighton. attendance at Chautauqua in Montezuma and Buffalo Bill Wild West show in Burlington. Evans meetings, ice cream social, and a farewell for R B Hull. Mentions school plans at Young America and the Columbus Junction Chautauquan start.
A Winfield hayrack party attended the band concert. Crawfordsville beat Winfield 10 to 2 in yesterday’s ball game. The Curries, J Maxwell family, and several locals visited nearby towns and returned from trips. Various residents—McCleary, Williams, Brown, and Willoughby—were noted for travel or visits.
West Chester on Tuesday saw Al Augustine ship four cars of stock to Chicago while Jacob Sheetz Chris Withoft Meno Christner delivered cattle here. Co F Timmons and Joe Shalla sent a car of hogs. Visitors include Mrs Fishburn of Sigourney Jack Longman of Keota and Dr Ash with Lou Smith and wife. W N Plummer and wife of Oskaloosa also visiting.
A humorous Farm Notes missive mocks a young woman harmed by a matrimonial bureau. It ridicules court redress gaps, extols safety pins as superior to binding wear, and riffs on wardrobe fixes and comical mishaps with bold, period voice.
Dodds from Wellman and Brinning of Dutch Creek were in town on Tuesday. Frank McFarlane went to Crawfordsville to attend his store. Al Augustine and Henry Withoft are in Chicago this week. John A. Augustine seeks eye treatment in Washington. Lloyd Robertson visits his sister in Washington. Fern Cody returns from Cumberland. A Pleasant Grove school house receives new paint and a coming event is announced.
Exchanges over wealth and beauty in old New York portray a rich girl with five thousand pounds and a beauty with a ten acre Broadway farm. The dialogue hints at social contrasts between fortune and appearance in the city’s society.
In a Stray Stories dialogue a wife questions smoking waste while a husband jokes he could buy about fifty hats for himself and only three for her, illustrating a humorous household exchange on perceived spending.
A cooking school graduate confronts a tramp who asks if he took the pie and the tramp insists he did not eat it. The exchange reveals a returning visitor with a sly response.
Chicago market report shows estimated receipts 22 000 with yesterday’s leftovers 4 000 and slow prospects. Cattle 19 000 and sheep 20 000 with steady to slightly lower tone. prices range light to heavy shipping values. Second report notes higher openings futures with notable quotes for wheat corn oats and live cattle futures.
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