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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1905
Page
3
Partly cloudy tonight with a cooler west portion on Saturday. The outlook covers today and tomorrow with a cooler trend expected in western areas.
A bustling round of passengers and visits fills the morning as residents travel to Keota Verdi Ainsworth and Columbus Junction. Notable movements include Dr Godlove from Riverside and Mrs Wells returning from Ainsworth, with Chautauqua activities and Temperance day highlighted.
Major Gordon W. Lillie known as Pawnee Bill leads a famed frontier exhibition arriving August 8. Born in Bloomington Illinois, he built Oklahoma as a center of progress, led 5040 homesteaders, and owns the largest buffalo herd after the U.S. government. His show is praised as an honest, well managed entertainment and a promoter of statehood.
Russell Sage is eighty nine today and remains a remarkably well preserved man who seldom misses his office. An attendant escorts him to and from. His mind is clear on many points as it was fifty years ago and he has become a great talker in his later years.
Visitors to Pawnee Bill's Wild West exhibition may witness Wenona the Sioux princess display remarkable rifle and shotgun skill. She shoots pennies and moving targets from the back of a galloping horse, finishing with airborne targets while circling the arena.
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