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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1902
Page
3
A Merry Christmas message ties with ads for Stuart's Meat Market offering dressed geese ducks and oysters. Local students and residents are noted including Miss Josephine Babcock studying music in Mt. Pleasant and Miss Belle Campbell visiting from Crawfordsville.
Special dispatch notes Iowa weather for today and tomorrow. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with slightly colder temperatures in the east and central portions.
Local items list weekly board at Allens, ring and souvenir spoon displays, Christmas gifts from Cook and Sherman, Isenhart candy kitchen promotions, and frequent traveler notices. Several residents and visitors pass through or travel to Keokuk Burling ton Bloomington Springfield and Fairfield with updates on Christmas shopping and errands.
Paul Graff of Omaha, visiting his brother Geo Graff, left yesterday afternoon for home by way of Muscatine to see friends for a few days. Claude Rosenberger, hostler at the B and W round house, is seriously ill with typhoid fever.
Local jottings include license to wed issued to eight A week and Jessie Shanafelt. various residents visiting, illness, travel plans, sales events, and advertisements. Community notices mention weddings, illnesses, a Cool-Dunlap trial update, and shop promos at Johnson's bakery and Allens plus lost items and sales results.
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