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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1900
Page
3
An advertisement from agents for Elwood Fencing emphasizes buying all shelf hardware nails screen wire and related items. It promotes cash purchases with plain price figures including furniture gasoline and oil stores steel ranges and cook units at heavily discounted rates.
Market and household ads list gasoline stoves oil stoves refrigerators and smokeOkamo cigars at J. N. Lewis & Co. announcements mention Mrs Will Graham improving and John Minnick’s Peoria visit. Also notes Colfax visit and Martin’s gas ride, plus a ball game Washington versus Columbus Junction at Smouse’s park tomorrow.
Morning weather shows 1 inch of rain yesterday and last night. Local residents like M Cavin Emma Fowler and W A Birney plan visits for the Fourth while others travel to Kansas City and Cotter. The Detroit lamp is marketed by J N Lewis Co. Despite activity, Highland Park Lake bans swimming and fishing.
Washington July 3 Chief Wilkie of the secret service reports the arrest of Fred A Taylor, a former San Francisco mint employee, found with about eight ounces of gold clippings and gold buttons totaling $200 allegedly stolen. Harry Perry of San Francisco also arrested. M I Castle, Brighton magistrate and vice president of the London Whitatelie society, sold his collection of European stamps for about £30,000.
Advertisers must send their copy by 10 a m to ensure ad changes occur the same day. The notice stresses a strict deadline and urges timely submissions to avoid missed corrections.
A refreshing sanitary soap described for daily use in every nursery. It softens and preserves the skin and is promoted as essential for babies adults and bathroom hygiene.
In Keota Iowa on July 3 a 120 foot barn belonging to Thomas Singmaster twelve miles south near Valley burned when struck by lightning. A mare and colt were killed and hay lost. Nearby Dick Baker's barn was struck but survived. a little girl in Baker's barn was badly stunned.
The clipped item notes Stetson branding as the best five dollar shoe, offered for sale by Nicola and Harmon. It reports a morning at the poor farm for an 87 year old Geo Zimmerman, plus assorted social notes on local visits, ice cream offerings, and the Gazelle Hose company schedule.
A ball game is scheduled for tomorrow at 2 50 PM between Washington and Columbus Junction at Smouse's Park. The match will decide bragging rights in the local league.
Special report from Allerton Iowa describes a morning explosion at the creamery leaving three men badly hurt including Claude Elder with likely fatal injuries. The blast wrecked the building and sent timber and debris through the site as workers attended to the injured.
Reports from Champaign Illinois and university experiment stations alert to a new corn pest, a small white grub that gnaws corn roots and thrives in grassland rotations. The insect, linked to a brown beetle, has spread through Pratt and Illinois fields, prompting a circular seeking farmer cooperative data on oat smut losses totaling 2.5 million dollars last year.
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