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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1913
Page
3
A dense excerpt lists train numbers with arrival and departure times and notes daily operation except Sunday. It names agents H W Russell and F L Broadgate, references local freight and passenger trains Nos 60 82 88 89 49 64 81 92, and mentions city bus line service in Kingston with phone orders.
Miss Helen Miller Gould wed Finley J. Shepard at her country home near Tarrytown. The ceremony drew a small, distinguished guest list, with the Duke and Duchess de Tallyrand and Prince de Sagan present. A breakfast followed and 1,000 homeless men were treated to a meal at the Bowery Mission, funded by the bride.
Washington January 22 The house approved the army appropriation bill providing 94 million dollars for the upcoming fiscal year. The Webb amendment was rejected, removing the standard heat and light allowance for officers. East St Louis saloonkeeper killed in holdup Edward Palkenhaust, 74, shot as he closed his saloon. about 30 dollars taken from the register.
A January fire in Larned Kansas wiped out seven buildings on Main Street. The blaze consumed a large portion of the business district and caused a total loss estimated at $200,000. Fire departments fought the flames until they were under control.
The Ohio supreme court in Columbus ordered the 1,200,000 estate of James Smith Armstrong, a Cincinnati financier who died in Paris, to be divided equally among seven heirs.
An ad touts S. S. S. as a pure vegetable infusion that soaks through the intestines into the blood to filter out poisons and dissolve rheumatic accumulations. It claims rapid relief in five minutes and offers $1.09 bottles from Swift Laboratory in Atlanta Georgia with advice from The Swift.
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