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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
5
Local and personal items note a big closing out sale at Rothschild's with discounts on jackets cloaks and fur items. The column also mentions Vienna bakery gifts, crafts and various small notices about residents and shoppers in nearby towns.
A woman reports a plot to blow up the Vienna bakery as Christmas treats and gifts fill the city. Local items include marriage licenses, clerical sermons, piano advertisements, holiday sales, and community notices across Indianapolis.
A Christmas present guide suggests sewing machines and pianos as ideal gifts. It touts Free Standard Eldredge or Domestic sewing machines at W L Kiehelberger and promotes piano or player piano purchases with factory pricing. Second hand organs start at $15.00.
A laborer who disappeared weeks ago was discovered Saturday lodged in a concrete pillar of the government dam on the Mississippi. The body is embedded in solid concrete and blasting would ruin most of a large cement coil in the dam. The missing man had been last seen near the dumping frame amid tons of concrete.
About ten thousand Christmas and New Year's post cards are offered at ten cents per dozen by W. L. Eichelberger.
Bee J. Martin White promotes an ideal lighting plant offering gasoline or electric options at moderate cost. He claims it provides ten times more light, is cleaner and safer, and a $300 to $400 investment yields lasting satisfaction with easy demonstrations in Washington Iowa.
To introduce our Gold Dollar flour we will sell for cash one hundred sacks at one dollar and twenty five cents per sack and guarantee it to give as good satisfaction as flour sold at a higher price. Money returned if it does not satisfy. Try a sack, it will please you.
Cora Mel Patten appears tomorrow night at the Graham Theatre under Short Course management. She is described as an interpreter with a charming personality and powerful depth in voice. Rev. C A Tenny of Des Moines praises her ability to convey every line and move the audience.
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