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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1902
Page
3
Partly cloudy tonight with probable showers and cooler western areas. Wednesday generally fair and slightly cooler.
Local notes report Means ice cream at Allen’s drawing fans on hot days. Brief snippets list visitors and returns to cities including Des Moines Keoka Havre and Joliet with people like Miss Parker Henry Deidrick and Mrs. Parrish visiting or returning home.
A strong turnout attended the first afternoon and evening sessions of Evangelist Smith and Colburn in the big tent. Choirs from First and Second United Presbyterian churches joined in singing with a solo by W. J. Baker. Services run daily at 3 20 PM and 7 45 PM with sermons on witnessing for Jesus and church music featured. Means delivers his cream.
Free samples at Columbia Pharmacy on Saturday July 12. Local notices mention Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Stowell returning from Chicago, J. J. McKeone and crew finishing a concrete job in Fairfield, and Miss Maggie Reaney visiting family near Verdi. Cortical health claims for Rocky Mountain Tea and routine travel notes from Winfield to Letts and Coppock are included alongside reports of channel cat fishing and a busy headquarter live box.
Over taxed organs such as stomach and liver suffer dyspepsia and nausea with dizziness and headaches. Dr King's New Life Pills provide prompt relief and claim a guaranteed cure. Available for 25 cents at Stewart's drug store.
Grocery list item notes a sale including red kidney beans and Arm and Hammer soda. The entry reads like a basic ad fragment without full context or pricing.
In Chicago Theo dore Oelfear a laborer shot and killed his wife Adelaide as she slept. He then wounded his baby Walter and step-daughter Lizzie Stramm, and fired at step-sons hitting none. He hid in the attic and killed himself in police custody. Also noted Mrs Eliza Kerr seeks her son John Kerr now possibly John Lewis last seen aboard a boat bound for Cleveland.
In New Haven Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School receives a $500000 gift from Frederick W. Vanderbilt of New York to establish a dormitory system. Vanderbilt, a 176 class graduate, announced by Prof Russell H. Chittenden. A separate note from Springfield lists a U S warrant for civil war claims of $1005129.20 to the state, to be indorsed by the governor and credited to the revenue fund.
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