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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1907
Page
3
Local notes report daily ice cream at Hays and Vienna bakery items. Several residents travel for visits and business including Col D J Palmer and Congressman Kennedy. June stories note arrivals, family births, and shop updates with plans for westward trips and a new operator at Miller’s exchange.
Weekly claims list shows allowed payments for damages and losses. Names include T. J. Harvey Washington lightning damage 5 dollars, John Krotz Ainsworth lightning damage, Frank Havel Ainsworth heifer, Joe A Kalous Ainsworth two colts 40, 18, 100 dollars, Theresia Schmidt Riverside 10, Howard Swick Washington contents 156, Jerry Hopping Washington house 800 dollars.
Due to my absence from the state for over a year, The Town Mutual of Des Moines The Iowa Mutual Tornado Insurance Association and The Iowa Assessment Mutual Fire Association of Dewitt appoint J A Y Ashby as their agent during my absence. 4-tit Miles Bradford.
Bartel Cram, 61, married Mary Larsen, his childhood sweetheart from Denmark, 18 hours after her arrival in Cedar Falls Iowa, after not seeing each other for 25 years. The groom is a rich farmer.
Special to The Evening Journal prints a forecast for Iowa. Fair and continued warmer tonight and Tuesday.
Mrs Maggie Frazier of Eldora Iowa died after a can of floor paint burst on a hot stove and ignited with gasoline. The burning liquid spread over her body as she crawled to a cot, where she lay for about an hour before help arrived while her husband was in a field.
The A M E church hires trustees Samuel Hall and George Turner to lead a city solicitation seeking 300 in donations to improve the church and parsonage. Rev B R Penn notes contributions are gratefully received.
Will Kuhn arrived home this morning after a trip to West Chester. He traveled back by train and was met at the station by family and friends.
A. A. Herren of Finch Arkansas says Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs colds and early lung trouble and that many customers are satisfied. The product is sold by all druggists.
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