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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
2
A joint convention of Iowa's senate and house will vote to locate three new normal schools for 1901 1902 and 1903. Cities may apply with a 25000 bond and 40 acre site within set proximity to business districts. A critic calls the 25000 clause a disgrace urging state funded locations.
The Chase Lister Theater company presents A Play Without a Name at 3 15 pm on Wednesday with a female cast led by Helen Gillinywater Felica Madam Dubois Mile Edith Mary Nilsen Mile Cesarine Miss Kitty Berry and others. A title suggestion prize offers 5 00 and admission details invite theater parties for Chase Sister Monday night. Karl's Clover Root Tea ad and Hawkeye Lodge note accompany the notice.
Harrison J. Wolfe and company performed The Corsican Bros before a fashionable crowd at the Graham last night. Wolfe, praised as a rising western star, delivered superb acting in a mixed repertory including Garrick Hamlet and The Corsican Bros. The review notes audience surprise at Wolfe in Hamlet and cites local praise. The item also lists upcoming shows and local notices about Shiloh’s Consumption Cure, a barber shop, telephone discussion at schools, and local travel.
Citations say C B Q officials toured with B N W manager to inspect widening of the Narrow Gauge in southeastern Iowa. If stockholders approve, lines may pass to C B Q and be standardized, with possible connections from Oskaloosa to Des Moines and Cedar Rapids route to Illinois Central. John Stevenson of Thornburg, Indiana, arrived to testify in the None-Such Clothes Washer case and recently purchased a livery business.
Fair tonight and Friday with milder northwest winds. Clark Eckerman travels to Centerville to visit his photographer brother. Gene Anderson visits Libertyville as he travels. Singmaster leaves for Muscatine. Charles Sailing returns from Davenport and Rock Island. Jennie Conner departs for Wyman friends. None-Such Clothes Washer case benefits hotels as witnesses stay at local hotels. Blanche Gordon ill at Heights home. Bruce Hampsher departs for West Liberty and Tipton. Sam Foreman is an outgoing passenger on the Branch today.
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