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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1900
Page
2
The seller offers a batch of twenty four latest styles bought low and to be sold at steep discounts. Included are fifteen children's jackets ten pants twelve good collarettes with similar discount terms. The ad emphasizes selling items at about forty cents on the dollar.
Fire alarm sounded at nine this morning causing a hurried, mistaken call to the Donovan home before locating Rev. J A Boatman’s residence on Second street west. No blaze found as chimney blockage caused smoke. Also listed are real estate transfers from February 7 to 14, 1900 including Mary Mingo to Fred Teller and James Boyd to Henry Boyd among others.
The Bowers and Busby Minstrel Co. played a light business at the Gra ham last evening though they had a good band and some high class vaudeville. The minstrel portion was tame and failed to draw, suggesting Otis Bowers must revive material or risk losing Beach and Bowers as a drawing card.
After a trip to Chicago the author claims readiness to handle hair dressing while noting rumors of a major time card change on the CB & Q line. The change is expected to affect the Narrow Gauge timetable when issued.
A $200 reward is posted by Pastor and St James parish members for information leading to the discovery of the child’s mother or the person or persons who left the child at the Sisters of St James School on the morning of February 1, 1900. Send information to O E Brown in Washington Iowa.
A runaway oil wagon driven by the O. Farris team sped south on Lown street last evening. The wagon swayed and rattled like a tin can, but the horses did not turn or upset it and eventually halted after tiring.
The Shilohs Cough and Consumption Cure, offered for 25 cts 50 cts and 100 dollars, promises a refund if it fails to cure. Sold for over fifty years with this guarantee. Available at J. H. Stewarts drug list. Editor Mahin of the Muscatine Journal visited the city yesterday, departing on the Narrow Gauge in the evening on his postoffice inspection tour.
A promotional notice claims Dr Dix Tonite Tablets cure rheumatism by reaching joints and nerves and removing poisons. It offers a free trial from Hayes & Coon, Detroit, and cites a testimonial from Eagle Grove Iowa, plus a mail order option and in-store purchase.
Local and personal news highlights Mrs Hood entertaining at a luncheon. Also notes urging kindness and forgetting faults. Banks in the city will be closed on Thursday February 22 for a legal holiday.
First Church of Christ Scientist holds services at 10 40 a m with Christ Jesus as the subject. Presbyterian Church offers morning and evening sermons on Law and Grace with a 6 p m Y P S C E meeting and 7 p m preaching. Baptist Church conducts morning Faithfulness to Small Matters and evening What the Bible Says Is Im possible. Sunday school at 9 30 a m and B Y P A at 6 p m. All are welcome.
Workmen repairing a sewer pipe damaged a boiler line, releasing about half the boiler water and leaving the high school chilly for about an hour yesterday. George Brooks of Wayland visits his father Thomas, the horse buyer, in the city.
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