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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1906
Page
3
Washington special reports showers tonight or Saturday with warmer tonight. Iowa weather outlook includes wet conditions and rising temperatures over the next day.
Local notes report many residents attending fairs and Chautauqua events while the Graham opera house announces the season opening with the play A Little Outcast on September 5. Fred Skola of Kalona wins a westward trip prize from Atlas Insurance Co for his good work.
In a well attended game at the new park near the Chautauqua grounds the local team beat Davenport 6 to 1. West pitched strongly for the locals while Osterholm and Koll led in hits. Davis and Kerrigan starred for Davenport.
A car load of extra fancy bananas will be sold at the Burlington freight depot starting 12 o'clock noon on Saturday September 1. Prices are 40 and 650 cents for big jumbo bunches, open to all customers. The car will remain open until 8 p m Saturday only.
A thrift minded farmer's lesson applies to households warns that sunshine may end and showers follow. Dysentery diarrhoea and cholera morbus can strike suddenly. Cham berlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is urged for immediate treatment and sale by Eerman and Stewart's.
The 25th Iowa Infantry invites members to a reunion in Burlington Iowa on September 27 for the unit’s forty fourth anniversary. Secretary J N Fleming asks recipients to forward addresses to members and encourage attendance. many 26th Iowa veterans live in Washington and nearby and are urged to attend if able.
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