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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 19, 1911

Page

7

Public Auction of Home Farm and Livestock Assets

Public sale set for Saturday December 28 at 2:30 p.m. at the Thompson residence near Mast Madison Street corner, featuring a nine room house with furnace and bath, barn, summer kitchen, well, cistern, walks, fruit trees, two East Jefferson street lots with barn and corn crib, one corner lot, a Ganzoo pacer mare, two milch cows soon to freshen, buggy and harness, saddle and bridle, and leather fly nets. Easy terms announced day of sale. Purchasers: M W Thompson, Ruby Thompson, Austin Sutherland, Nictioneer.

Madison Street Square Jefferson Street

Want Ad in the Journal Promises Quick Results

A brief want ad in the Journal touts fast responses and reliable outcomes for job, sale, or service needs. Readers are urged to place concise notices to attract attention and swift replies from interested parties.

Piles Cured In 6 To 14 Days Promise

A druggist offers PAZO OINTMENT with a money back guarantee if it fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles in six to fourteen days. The ad also mentions a 50 cent Curious Superstitions column noting Scottish beer brewing lore and myths about salt and witches.

Scotland

Kalamazoo Campaign Builds Social Reform Interest

Kalamazoo Michigan enjoyed a strong eight day Men and Religion Forward campaign ending with Fred B Smith and governor visits. Raymond Robins urged social reform and a civil service commission while a Worker's League formed to sustain evangelistic work across southwestern Michigan.

Kalamazoo Mich Fred B. Smith David Russell Academy of Music Raymond Robins Chicago Civil Service Commission Robins Social Service Committee Michigan Kala- Wiazoo John M. Dean

Preach Unionism At Muscatine Meet

A thousand attendees at the Grand theatre heard unionists praise trade unionism on a Muscatine mass meeting Sunday afternoon. Speakers included J. H. Walker, Jim Connors, Mrs. Laura Dainty Pelham, A Ia Urick, J. R. Hanley, and Emmnett Flood. The event criticized authorities and plant owners while lauding unions.

Muscatine Grand Theatre J. H. Walker Illinois United Mine Workers Jim Connors Switchmen’s Union Laura Dainty Pelham Trade Union League of Chicago A. Ia Urick Iowa State Federation of Labor J. R. Hanley Emmnett Flood

Avalanche of Mail Swamps New York

New York on December 19 faces a Christmas mail surge as outgoing mail leads the flow but incoming parcels swell the system. Station superintendents deploy wagons and delivery vehicles to handle hundreds of pieces in tenements and along Fifth Avenue. Customs guards comb foreign parcels for duty and smugglers probe for tax free gains while money orders spike with remittances home.

New York Uncle Sam United States East Side Fifth Avenue

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George H. F. Steck Washington, Iowa the Crescent Lyceum Bureau Russell Musical Novelty Co Theodore S. Russell Ments Ada Griffith Merritt Emma Bornholt J. F. McNamara & Son S. S. Furniture Austin Sutherland Nictioneer Ten Kalamayoo Mr. Robins Jesus Walt Walt Mason George Matthews Adams McElhinney Lemmon Canton John Shields & Sons Nigola & Harmon W. W. Wilson
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