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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1911
Page
3
A local notice advertises a July clean up sale with drastic price cuts across all items. It emphasizes fast cash, no credit, and plainly marked prices to ensure customers see the original value and the loss taken by the seller.
Local sale offers white dresses and wash suits at steep cuts with multiple price points from $12.50 down to $1.99. Inventory includes 25 wash suits and gowns marked as sacrifice prices with hundreds of old stock values slashed. Furniture or other items not listed.
A fragmented domestic ad lists many small items and prices including wire hair pins notional cotton spools safety pins brass pins steel thimbles curlers tooth powder Colgate powder leather belts and combs with prices ranging from a few cents to under a dollar.
Advertises Wayne Knit quality hose with multiple discount offers including 3 pairs for 25 cents and 3 pairs for 26 cents. Lists children ribbed mercerized stockings in assorted colors and sizes with guaranteed quality. Also mentions The Famous Black Cat Hose at 25 cents and children's guaranteed hose options.
Mrs Mary Trawick Proctor is 111 and a genuine daughter of the American Revolution. She lives in Barrow County with her daughter and two great grandchildren in a one room cabin. Born in 1800 in Wake County North Carolina she married Hiram Proctor at 19. she has lived under 25 presidents from Adams to Taft.
Keokuk reports a driver George Foster a colored chauffeur employed at Gate City garage found in a heap on the back seat of Dr. F. P. Dorsey’s automobile a few miles west of Kahoka. He was paralyzed and in a semi delirious condition though moments earlier he seemed normal.
Humeston Iowa July 24 A large number of farmers around here have commenced unreshing and the text notes rising prices or rates per bushel for Timothy, reflecting agricultural market activity in the area.
Keokuk July 25 State fish and game warden George A Lincoln weighs fall plans for the fish car Hawkeye. Mississippi bayous and sloughs lack water this summer reducing fish supplies for inland Iowa waters. A big river rise could restore stock, enabling normal distribution to sportsmen.
Little Rock July 25 trucks a plan to form a barge line on the Arkansas River from mouth to source. Barges drawn by tugs would provide an economical freight system, with cooperation sought from short line railroads to move freight from river terminals to points south and east.
Abner C. Yoder a former Iowa City business man now living in Olpeichs D C suffers a poisoned hand after a snake bite in Grey River area. Surgeons saved the hand and prevented amputation as he nursed venom and infection for weeks.
George Mostowich was killed and Samiliiah seriously hurt when Northwestern passenger train No struck them near Low Moor Clinton as they walked to work with a railroad gang. Freight blocked west tracks delaying hearing the approach. Both men were Austrians employed by the gang.
In Davenport Iowa on July 26 Mae Foley age sixteen was found dead by drowning near Suburban Island two miles from the government bridge. The girl had been missing since yesterday morning.
John McCulley a well known resident of this vicinity died in bed at his home two miles from here after night. Coroner Crane found no definite natural cause and an apparent heart attack is suspected given his age. He served the community after a few years ago to the United Presbyterian Church in this city. His farm valued at about 100000. He leaves heirs whose contest over the estate has reached the Supreme Court. Funeral services will be held at home Wednesday at the Fourth Quarterly Conference of the Methodist church at 8 o'clock night. All members urged to attend.
A playful notice circulates claiming a journal will help readers “sh il it” for them with a wink. The quirky message invites readers to enjoy the joke while noting no official ad details or prices are provided.
Formal action toward constructing a series of great highways in northern Minnesota will be taken at a meeting of the good roads commission. The plan envisions lines connecting Minneapolis to Duluth, Minneapolis to International Falls, Duluth to East Grand Forks, and Duluth to Moorhead. Officials from ten counties attend, with state and county cost sharing under the Hiwell bill, land adjoining the roads bearing the remainder.
Niagara Falls NY hosts the start of the eighteenth annual National Hay Association convention with shippers and producers from across the country attending. Officials say this season’s hay crop is generally fair though some regions face shortages.
Greenwood race week starts in July with a fashionable crowd in attendance. The event features local riders and guests as they gather for a series of horse and carriage displays.
English spinners acquire 82,000 acres in the heart of the Mississippi delta to grow cotton for mills. A Dutch banking syndicate buys 60,000 acres in Bolivar County and eyes more large tracts. The ventures aim to breed extensive cotton production and enter live stock, signaling potential foreign investment in the region.
Allan Cameron is designated to head a group of United States and Canada railroad men aimed at improving U S Canada relations. A native of Canada and Ryerson School graduate, he has a 32 year railroad career including roles with Canadian Pacific, Oregon Railroad and Navigation, and the Port of Hong Kong.
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