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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1902
Page
4
Fred Bragg of the Edward Walther Plumbing and Heating Co was seriously injured Saturday night when he fell from a moving passenger train near Davenport. Brown reported Bragg unconscious for hours with physicians fearing a concussion of the brain. Bragg, a single man from Bentonsport Iowa, has worked in the area about a year and Ed Walther will go to Davenport to monitor his condition.
January term opens as Judge Scott presides probate docket. Will of Robert C. Anderson left half to wife and remaining real estate valued around 15 to 20 thousand dollars willed to Xenia Theological Seminary contested by brother Carson Anderson. Other heirs and relatives attend, juries to be summoned.
Classified items show a married man needed for brick yard work and housing, with steady year round employment. Also offers for sale and rental, a secondhand item, and inquiries about a rental house. Names and local notices appear alongside a pneumonia update and telepathy event.
Mrs. Norton and her pupil with the First Presbyterian church choir present a grand concert in Graham next Friday evening January 17. Admission is 10 cents. tickets available at Carris Pharmacy on Tuesday and thereafter.
Advance subscriptions for Chas Frohman's David Harum at Carris Pharmacy list tickets for Omaha Des Moines Cedar Rapids Davenport and Burlington. Two bloodied tickets ordered this week send the list to Chas Frohman New York and secure February performances in Graham.
Community notices urge attendance at a special meeting hosted by Mrs M P Miller. The city council plans an evening session to consider a paying contract.
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