06 Jul 1894
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1894
Page
1
Local notices report Miss Kit Wilson visiting friends in Keota and Miss Emma McMillan visiting home from Chicago. Fireworks planned for Dublin on the fourth, while Chinch bugs threaten crops. Train No 11 was eight hours late, and Barking about rail delays mixed with shop ads and social events.
J B Crooks of Crawfordsville was mistaken for a tramp after returning from stock buying in the country. He found his wife and daughter had mistaken him for an intruder when they saw someone eating by lamplight. They summoned help to confirm the truth.
An advertisement praises Campbell and Bowman for selling good and cheap butter with a money back guarantee. It also endorses Johnson's Magnetic Oil to relieve rheumatism neuralgia sprains bruises and lame back, claiming quick pain relief. Endorsed by E. N. Foster.
An old advertisement offers a $100 reward for an uncured catarrh case with Hall's Catarrh Cure sold for 75 cents a bottle. It includes endorsements from West & Truax and Walding Kinnan Marvin of Toledo. Separately, Sigourney suffered a Sunday fire destroying four one story buildings with contents saved. talks of water works and a chemical engine order followed, and Ollie also lost four buildings that day.
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