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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
3
Special weather forecast reports cooler conditions with rain or snow in east and central Iowa tonight. Friday promises fair weather with cooler temperatures in the far eastern portion and across the region.
Local items list sales offers theater notices and personal visits. J. H. Stewart touts history of Raffes from birth. A True American at Graham ext next Monday with ladies free. railroad men visitors from Des Moines to Washington and Bloomington. Miss Teresa Swift and Nicola Harmon stores advertise goods. Rev R G Jones to conduct service at Reformed church. storage room opening announced. Don Rawson joins Oak quartet for northern tour. bakery and umbrella sales. boarding house meals at 3.00 weekly. several short travel and social notes from Hawkeye Kalona and Washington areas.
In Aledo Illinois on December 28 the trial of Mrs Archibald McKinney opens with charges of extreme cruelty by Stella Gindy former Chicago home inmate. George A Cooke presents insanity as the key defense while promising more serious acts to be revealed if needed. Decatur notes Sanitation growth and major building boom with 1,716,490 spent in the year more than prior years and 405,600 on business and factory structures.
A Baker City Oregon dispatch reports a proposed nationwide subscription to fund a wedding present for Miss Alice Roosevelt on her marriage to Nicholas Longworth. The White House dissents, urging that the project not be undertaken. Milwaukee hosts the Wisconsin Teachers’ Association 53rd meeting with papers and contested presidency. In Meridian a mob battle near Williams Cross Roads, Choctaw County, Alabama leaves two Black men dead. In Columbia South Carolina Dr. J W ae, 72, prominent physician, dies of pneumonia. his grandfather fought as a colonial officer and he served on Hampton’s staff during the Civil War.
Dr. J. B. Latta of Kennesaw Nebraska overtook a train with an automobile and recovered the four year old son of George Coffey who had been kidnapped. The incident appears in a remote clipping from a late era report.
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