Fresh oysters and holiday notices fill local ads
Local shoppers find fresh oysters at 40 cents a quart from Orr & Patton's grocery and blue point oysters advertised at Windsor Grocery. The Milwaukee freight house and Rock Island freight office announce Christmas and New Year closures. Numerous city residents visit or return home for holidays, with arrivals from Chicago and Ames and several lingering to spend time with families.
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Orr & Patton's
Merty Teeter
Mary
Cedar Rapids
J. W. Teeter
Mr. Teeter
Remarkable 22-key stenographic machine showcased
A description details a new twenty two key phonetic stenography device enabling rapid word-like strokes and chords, boosting shorthand speeds to 267 and 592 words per minute in demonstrations. It explains keyboard divisions for initial and final consonants vowels and abbreviations, with numbers via asterisk codes, and notes easier mastery and cross-operator readability.
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New York
Uttock
Theodore Roosevelt
Dian
Owensboro
Treth
Viceroy Sir Charles Hardings Injured in Capital Attack
Special to Evening Journal reports Sir Charles Hardings viceroy of India wounded by a bomb as he entered the new capital by elephant. His attendant was killed. Injuries not serious. Also from Washington a ICC ruling allows grain shippers to claim damages if railroads favored competitors with elevator allowances, setting a precedent for thousands of claims.
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George MM. Slater
Clinton
A. M. EB
Washington
Wilberforce University
D. W. Brown
Slater
The
Evening Journal
Washington County
Iowa
Frank Beatty
England
Austria
Germany
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Commercial Savings Bank
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Clarence Hollingsworth
Theresa Chihak
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Alex Barr
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Luella Shaw
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Fred Iyser
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Charles Anderson
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J. T. Anderson
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Gladys Carson
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Frank Aristow
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