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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1900
Page
2
Dealers announce a clearance of fifteen children's jackets ten pairs and twelve collarettes offered at the same discount as the latest styles. Items sold at forty cents on the dollar will be offered to customers as a rapid turn sale.
The Iowa Bankers Group 9 afternoon session opened at 2 30 with W E Blake of Burlington delivering The Bankruptcy Law Questions and Answers. He traced laws from Julius Caesar to 1800 and 1808 and discussed creditors interests and debtor relief. Officers for 1900 were elected: President David McKee Mediapolis secretary H Keck Washington and an executive committee.
The body of Rev William Campell Gunn, Fort Madison penitentiary chaplain, arrived from Fort Madison with his wife and Samuel Younkin. Gunn died suddenly in his sleep after a lung trouble and heart neuralgia suspected. he had served nearly twenty years as prison chaplain at Fort Madison and Anamosa. He was born in Scotland in 1834, served as Civil War captain, married a minister's daughter, and leaves two daughters Abbie Younkin and Harriet, plus siblings. Services are planned at his home and then at the prison chapel before interment in Washington Iowa.
Mr and Mrs W S Grecian threw open their South Green Street home to about sixty guests for a Washington birthday themed six thirty dinner. Mrs Eugene Anderson plus L S Patterson and Misses Denny Warren Dawson assisted. The gathering featured flags bunting hatchets and a four course supper in a festive house warming atmosphere.
After a Chicago trip, Miss Nona Morts invites calls or letters for a breezy time with a Saturday Evening show titled A Breezy Time. The program features Jack Tar and a mix of comedy and music aimed at all ages and social ranks. James Nichols Harry White and Lew Gormley of Crawfordsville were in the city on business.
An invitation extols a grand old remedy for coughs colds and consumption claiming world wide use for fifty years and many cures. It offers a free sample or trial and assures satisfaction with a money back option if not convinced.
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