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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 06, 1903

Page

2

Council approves bids extension for water works bonds and reads library report

City council meets in mayor pro tem Chair with Miller present. Bids for water works bonds extended to Jan 12. Library trustees submit 1901 year report listing book purchases repairs salaries and receipts. News notes from surrounding towns follow with various social and local items.

Wilson M. P. Miller Brookhart Emry Foley Glasgow Hebener Miller Walther Water Works Fire and Water Committee Butterfield W. Brookhart Washington Towa Jane A. Chilcote Library

Annual Guest Day Set For Jan 10 At Mrs Wilsons Home

The Annual Guest Day program will be held Saturday January 10 at 2 30 p m at the home of Mrs F L Wilson. Each member may invite two friends. Miss Cora Scofield will give a talk on Florence.

Emma Buxbaum Cedar Falls Hert Donber M. Lewis John Mauthe Indian Derek School House Jan U. P Hopkinson Howard Moothart Cedar Rapids John Stick Marion, Ta L. B. Moothart Geo. A. Simmerman Thompson Richland Nash de Scribe Alice Hites Dr. Drew Charles Mill J. D Dayton Lewis and Munro F. L. Wilson Cora Scofield Florence

Firm foundation for Dean's Kidney Pills praised by reader

Washington residents express public endorsement for Dean's Kidney Pills via newspapers. BE R Powers, grocer, and others report backache kidney complaints improved after using Dean's Kidney Pills. For sale by all dealers at 50 cents per box. Foster Milburn Co. New York sole agents. Remember the name Dean's.

Washington Dean BE. R. Powers East Washington St M78 Avenue B Columbia Foster-Milburn Co N. Y United States Dean's

Are You A Mason the Merry Farce at Graham

The German adaptation by Leo Dietrichstein comes to Graham next Saturday January 10. Amos Bloodgood of Rockford Jr and his son in law Frank Perry of New York stage a comic deception about Masonry leading to a clash of pretenders. The play promises side splitting humor with a grand master ruse and a tour drawn company. Seat sales start tomorrow morning.

Graham Leo Dietrichstein Amos Bloodgood Rockford, Jr Frank Perry New York Bloodgood

Markets Reflect Mixed Live Stock Prices and Grain Rates

Receipts and bid quotes show cattle and hogs trading with mixed strength. Western steers and cows firm to lower, veal and stock animals varying by grade, lambs and sheep uneven. grain futures cited with oats steady and corn dull amid regional bids and cash activity.

Hoyes Atcahers Keres

Poison in the Whisky Murder Mystery in Colorado Springs

Mrs J B Bailey wife of coachman George Kilborne survived strychnine poisoning after drinking whisky from a bottle her husband had also used. Kilborne died at midnight, coroner and police investigate a deliberate poisoning, New Year gift suspected as the trigger, case tying to Pike's Peak region gossip and a moving Firefly train car note.

Wm. Chapek P.M. Skola Willie Mary Votruba Chicago Mamie Mishop Riverside Josh Keifer West Point Lulu Bush Ada Strabala Maggie Bertha Reiner Our Village Trinity Church Albert Escher Wm.Connor Harry Page Missouri Joseph Spevarek Georgie Lintz Chittum George Dohi Inlinois Indiana Luella Tobin Zitta Welte John Adkinson Tresa Smith John Shalla Bert Pierce Se Perib Dim Tobin Wes Reiner Rye Colorado Prings. Cole J. B. Bailey George N. Kilborne Pike’s Peak

New Discovery Promises Longer Life Says Editor Downey

Editor O H Downey of Churubusco Indiana heralds Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption as infallible for coughs colds and grip. He claims it relieves instantly and cures pneumonia and consumption with guaranteed 60c and 1.00 bottles and free trial bottles at Stewart's Pharmacy.

Mrs. A. Webster Winnie Paani King Stewart's Drug Store O. H. Downey Churubusco Ind Dr. King Stewart

Country Girl’s Ping Pong Love Sparks Ironic Family Letter

A Kansas college student writes to her sister about being in love with ping pong. An old man misreads the note as a romance with a Chen named Ping Pong and declares no Chinaman may marry into his family, prompting a humorous correction.

Kansas Fanny

Reduced Rates for Ames ISU Courses and Transport

Rates cut for stock and grain judging and dairying courses at Iowa State College from January 5 to 17 with return tickets one third price for full fare receipts. Scheduling lists order of stock judging by date and topic. evening sessions cover general agriculture. Local bus line offers prompt service from hotels and Colenso station with orders by phone.

Iowa State College

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