Washington Post Office Notice Classified
Entered at the post office at Washington Iowa as second class matter indicating mailing status or archival note for the newspaper item.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1901
Page
3
Entered at the post office at Washington Iowa as second class matter indicating mailing status or archival note for the newspaper item.
A playful, if puzzling, note references writers and figures across eras and genres. It hints at motives and connections among Rider Haggard Rose Terry Cooke Sarah Grand and other names while mixing dates authors and figures in a riddle like stream.
John Steck returns from Chicago. Asa Reed visits Crawfordsville. Miss Stella Hellyer arrives from Eldon to visit Mrs. D. Webster. Numerous locals, visitors, and shoppers travel between Crawfordsville, Keota, Davenport, Elmwood, and other nearby towns. The Reynolds Gallery hosts James Frank visiting from East Washington. various residents take rail or Narrow Gauge trips to Washington and Des Moines.
News by telephone recounts daily visits and travel across Letts Kalona Wellman Washington and surrounding areas. People mentioned include Edith Richardson Minnie Hanna Edna Lyman O W McLaughnie and Rev Potter with trips to Minneapolis Spirit Lake London Ohio and London Ohio.
Aug 13 notes show Ernie Crayne traveling to Chicago for music studies at the conservatory. Mrs N Roffman headed to Rock Island. Fisher Augustine shipped cattle and hogs to Chicago. Adam Wombacher sent two carloads of cattle to Chicago. J M Gallager of Keta and others visiting the Crayne home. Sixteen Sigourney visitors tickets sold earlier. Rectol remedy touted with 98 percent cure record and free samples.
Miss Elma Schriever of Richland visits at the George Dye home on the height. Mrs Claire Lewis leaves for Okalpost to see her mother. Miss Verne Lytle travels to Alms Worth to spend several days with her friend Miss Shilling.
Parties of five or more may obtain unusually low fares to Clear Lake, Iowa, via the Liwa Central Railway. Ask the ticket agent or write Geo. S. Batty G. P. A. T. A. Marshalltown Iowa for a handsome booklet and full particulars.
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