Spencer to Repair All Sewing Machines at Low Prices
W S Spencer will be at the Singer Sewing Machine office after June 18 to repair all kinds of sewing machines at hard times prices.
11 Jul 1894
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1894
Page
1
W S Spencer will be at the Singer Sewing Machine office after June 18 to repair all kinds of sewing machines at hard times prices.
ThecC R J P is back in business at the old stand receiving freight for many points except Chicago. Several freight and most passenger trains operated today. The Firefly won’t start until next week and the fast mail is not yet running. Washington’s Chicago papers still come via Burlington and the Narrow Gauge. Yellow cards may spare bread-home trips from the bake shop. Ice cream and large cakes available by special order. J B Seaton, once city hotelier, left town on the early morning train for less publicized, remote parts. friends wish him well.
Maurice Caldwell and sister arrived in the city for a short visit with friends. Caldwell is remembered as the gentlemanly assistant in Mr. Button's shooting gallery last fall. The ad promotes good butter and guarantees every pound as OK.
Across Chicago and other cities on July 11 the strike situation stayed largely unchanged with about 4000 out and 26000 in the building trades remaining undecided. Armour and Swift workers seek return to duties while trains resume at stockyards and packing houses amid nationwide disruption.
Cincinnati labor federation asks President Gompas to leave the Railway Union alone as firemen from nine divisions of the Big Four Road are ordered out. In Summitville Pennsylvania imported workers fire into strikers, eight men shot. Debs appears in Chicago court as letters seized but later returned. Railroads, streetcar workers, and switchmen strike activity reported in several cities with various public figures noted.
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