12 Aug 1896
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1896
Page
1
The Frank E. Long Company will perform at The Graham fair week as one of the strongest traveling outfits offered at low prices. The John Griffith Faust Co will present Faust in September with In Old Madrid and Wits Outwitted in opera form at The Graham.
The Washington Cycle Club hosted races at the fairgrounds with a large crowd. Rodna Crail won the two mile handicap and a tandem-paced finish drew cheers. notes mention falls in the mile boys race and other event details plus local social items and upcoming baseball plans.
Wasu MeTon reports in Washington DC that the forecast for Iowa calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Thursday. The prediction notes mild temperatures with no major storms expected across the state next day.
The petit jury, drawn by Auditor J A Y Ashby Clerk D A Hoyer and Recorder T J Allen, includes representatives from almost all townships with Clay excluded. The roster names Hiram Richardson Bright on Bent Girard Marion RR M Flanigan Oregon KR J Turkington Crawford K Stoutner Seventy Six J M Jones KE W Grayson W TH Fulton Washington J L Woodburn Iowa Bent Leiehty Marion Geo Smith Dutch Creek S C Davis Franklin Albert Furman Lime Creek W A Wilson Highland L Bennett Brighton C 8S Rhodenbeck Lime Creek J C Lynch Wellman Anthony Marek Jackson KR Taylor Cedar Chas Singleman Lime Creek Ir TI Sickles Oregon John Carkus Dutch Creek J D Smith Franklin John Crawford Kalona Des Moines Aug 11 Special. The report notes a warm week, light rainfall, some corn damage, resumed threshing, and crop yield estimates for oats, wheat, rye, barley, and hay across Iowa with oats generally below standard weight.
The Dodds versus Kelley assault and battery case is scheduled for Justice Rogers tomorrow at nine o'clock. A series of brief local notices follows including residents visiting nearby towns and returning home, along with a light note on a bagpipe procession generating street excitement in Rome and a remark about music.
An advertisement explains deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh. It claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can restore the tube and offers one hundred dollars for any case it cannot cure, with circulars available and products sold by druggists at 75 cents.
Sheriff Teeter returns from Muscatine with John Thrasher and Frank Caspard alias Howard, both fined fifty dollars and costs for bootlegging. Unable to pay, Thrasher will serve about twenty days in jail. Report notes they come from near Keota and are from good families.
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