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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1912
Page
2
An accident insurance agent questions a woodsman guide during hunting season. The agent refuses coverage, noting not a risk but a certainty, implying inevitable peril for a guide in that field. The exchange conveys irony about insurance assessments in hazardous occupations.
Market: Strong at opening prices with wide ranges for bulk and light bids. Cattle and sheep hold steady as traders track price points around 7.30 to 7.80 for various weight categories and fattening futures.
Delta Iowa December 7 a major blaze burned half a block of frame business buildings from 10 30 Tuesday night until after midnight causing about 15000 in losses all insured The Hinder hotel twenty room block Delta post office J N Lewis Delta Press Freys photograph gallery and Randalls pool hall were destroyed Roof damage occurred to the People's Savings bank and the Rose store.
Bright crowds share weddings visits and travel notices from Brighton Iowa and nearby towns. Mr. and Mrs Baxter Ingham and child plan a Los Angeles winter. Miss Cora Walton and Scott Diller wed at the Johnson home with Rev. Stairs officiating. Mrs. John Diller returns from Washington. Emmett Stockman to spend winter with his mother in Prairie Center. multiple visits and gatherings at Schneider and Ruebsam households with neighbors and relatives.
Saturday's horse sale at the east livery barn near Kalona drew a good crowd. Homer Jackson traveled to Iowa City on Saturday as a passenger. O Dunlap attended to business at Ainsworth and Washington on Monday. Seth Kauffman visited Burlington on business yesterday. Miss Bertha Grady spent Thanksgiving with friends in Muscatine.
Wilbur Figgins of Elmira spent Thanksgiving at home. Miss Lucy Verdel of West Liberty attended her cousin Miss Maggie Lemley’s Thanksgiving wedding here. Ben Boothe builds a room for a future photograph gallery. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Adams of Wellman visited friends here. Miss Lintz rode to Riverside last Thursday for a day at home. Newt Arnold traveled eastward this morning.
Wellman Walt Livezey and wife, Mr. Murphy and wife and Mrs. Alice Fry were Sunday guests at the Livezey home. Many neighbors and relatives visited relatives in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids during the holiday period. Mrs. Gingerich returned from Iowa City after an operation.
Ainsworth residents report a day in Washington with visits to the home of Mrs. Geo S Norton. Mrs W T Trotter Jr and Mrs E W Spessard shop in Washington. H G Crawford returns from Kansas City. Mrs Ella Thompson and Miss Ivah Hendrickson visit friends in Washington. Mrs Arthur Fleischman of Chicago visits her father Jesse Marr. Leon Fullerton of Rock Island ill visiting the S D Ross home.
Richmond residents engage in home moves and carpentry work. Albert Lintz relocates to Riverside. Leonard Lintzs moves into Albert’s vacated house. Carrie Kern and Paul Kern shop in Washington. George Sojka family and Jim Knotek family visit Grandma Radda, who is very poorly. Pearl Sharpe Lizzie Spevacek visit Lava Small. star spellers participate in community activity.
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