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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
6
Local shoppers visit the Vienna bakery for fresh roasted peanuts at 10c a bag and 634 Mixed nuts. The Palace bakery advertises Christmas treats and a special sandwich loaf. Residents visiting Crawfordsville and Washington share holiday plans and family news as Christmas approaches.
Des Moines Iowa December reports that Fort Madison warden J Sanders urged state officials to replace prison garb with tailor made suits laundered shirts and polished shoes and to abolish solitary confinement He attacked capital punishment life sentences on circumstantial evidence and called for broader reforms in law and justice.
Russian packer Benadektas Cesunas dodged an attempted robbery when two men fired on him at Fourth and Chambers. He fled home despite a bullet piercing his skin, saved by wearing four shirts and two coats, the bullet lodged in a shirt thread. Police notified. Cesunas is alive and unharmed beyond a scare.
Charles Crawford a local butcher died after placing a revolver to his ear and firing. The act occurred in the Crawford and Jarvis shop on Locust street in Winfield with partners present. Passersby witnessed the scene as crowds filled the holiday streets. Doctors declared the wound fatal.
A man collapsed in a street near Peter Anderson’s furniture shop and died about 45 minutes later at the scene. Police opened an investigation to determine cause of death and identify the victim.
Mason City Iowa reports Nellie Lewis completing a 6000 mile journey to Buenos Ayres Argentine republic to wed George Dawson. She has lived in Jackson Mississippi St Louis and Chicago and is widely known.
Mt Pleasant Iowa December 23 After a twenty five hour trial and eighteen ballots the jury found Mrs Anna Myers guilty of Carson murder. The penalty ranges from two years to life imprisonment. She allegedly started a July 8 fire at her stepdaughter and husband home using kerosene after attempting to chloroform them but the husband Levisay intervened saving lives and property.
Notes from the city recount visits by Mrs A J Peterson of Ainsworth Miss Amelia Schumann from Keota and Mrs Herman Schultz of West Chester. Roy Y Stichter sold homemade candy and Roy praises its reception while Gunther candy boxes please customers. Pearl and Kate Montgomery and Mrs T L Montgomery arrive visiting.
Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that may develop into pneumonia over night are quickly cured by Fo ley's Honey and Tar. The remedy soothes inflamed membranes heals the lungs and expels the cold from the system at Lemmon's pharmacy.
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