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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 15, 1904

Page

3

Visiting and travel notices fill Fairfield city

Local items list visiting residents, travel by Rock Island and Firefly, and attendance at weddings, school teaching trips, and musical events. Mentions J P Thomas, W L Derby, Mrs George Yeager, Effie Nelson, Miss Walker, Mayme Gardner, Bert Dixon, John Dewees, I T Farris, Clarence Aughey, Mr Brown, and Daly's Big Co play Ten Nights in a Bar room with Prof Fred Pilcher.

Duncan J. P. Thomas Verdi W. L. Derby Dr. Fordyce Ainsworth Johnson L. O. Brindley Rock Island H. J. Williams Columbus Junction George Yeager Crawfords Ville Johnson's Effie Nelson Havre A. Booth West Liberty W. H. Mobr Washington Fairfield Tribune Charles Needham Sigourney G. Y. Dusenberry West Chester Mrs. Tallman Keota Fairfield J. N. Dodds Brighton G. W. Horton Germania Fire Insuranc Co J. W. Morton Miss Walker Mayme Gardner Academy Bert Dixon Wm. Holmes Miss Hamilton John Dewees Charles Walton I. T. Farris Red Oak Clarence Aughey Mr. Harnet Ottumwa Davenport D. J. Norton, Jr Otto N. Y D. N. Brown Brown Daly Big Co Fred Pilcher

Livery Drivers Strike Resumes in Chicago and Somalia Dispatch

Chicago sees livery drivers resume strike after a fifteen day truce following the Iroquois Theater fire. Black funeral wagons replace hearses as mourners ride streetcars to cemeteries amid wage dispute. A Somalian war office dispatch reports Captain the Hon. Thomas Lister missing after a recent engagement.

Chicago London War Office Egerton Thomas Lister Lord Ribbledale Theritish

Swift & Co Reports Capital Stock Increase

Swift and Co of Chicago certifies to the Illinois secretary of state an increase in capital stock from 25 million to 35 million dollars effective January 15 in Springfield.

New York Springfield Swift & Co. of Chicago Secretary of State

General Black leaves for Washington to assume civil service post

Gen John C Black, recently ill, departs for Washington to take command as United States civil service commissioner while remaining commander-in-chief of the Grand Army. Adjutant General Charles A Partridge will keep headquarters. In Terre Haute Elizabeth Wardlee 45 and daughters Edith 11 Bessie 7 perished in a house fire likely started by a overheated stove. Hold out Your Chest advice quotes Maxwell's Talisman.

Black Washington Chicago John C. Black United States Civil Service Commissioner Grand Army Charles A. Partridge Terre Haute, Ind Elizabeth Wardlee Edith Bessie Here Maxwell

Fire insurance oddity from the Flue quote

A Cincinnati Times-Star remark notes a house fire inquiry about a defective flue and comedy of insurance value as the reply claims the flue worked and the house was insured for twice its real value.

Slickan Cincinnati Times-Star

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George M. Holton Des Moines Joe Cramer Johnson Bakery H. B. Downing Guthrie J. W. Martin St. Paul Crump Minnie Winton Mitchell H. M. Eicher Pittsburg L. W. McKinley Ogden Utah T. J. Allen Wellman Etta Stouffer Creston Dave Donovan J. Albert Williams & Co Jen Dougherty Bros. West Side Sereed The Indiana Sateen Crown Cafe Journal Washington, Iowa W. D. Ferguson Graham Theatre Warren Moore C. E. Beverle T. S. Arthur Baxter H. A. Baxter Samson & Livingston
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