Notions price listings from the shop floor noted
A clipped notice records prices and deals for notions items including ge and 19 cent lines. The snippet mentions a 3.90 dollar figure and a 10c 19¢ tag in a crowded price listing.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1906
Page
5
A clipped notice records prices and deals for notions items including ge and 19 cent lines. The snippet mentions a 3.90 dollar figure and a 10c 19¢ tag in a crowded price listing.
An item lists contact details for an address at 104 East Main with two phones and a postal box number 44.
Johnson maintains seven bread varieties in stock including vanilla, cream and chocolate taffies at Brown's Candy Kitchen. Mrs. R. L. MacGugin leaves Saturday for Valley Junction to visit the John Gibson home for a few days. Photos 10c a dozen this week and next at Jeffery's penny photo rooms. Mrs. Hintermeister and daughter Nellie travel from Kalona to Andalusia to be with relatives. Mrs. Richard Hughes returns to Columbus Junction after a visit with her parents, the Elmer Wells family. Miss Mabel Morton visits Centerville for the A. M. Simpson home and the church dedication yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. T. Y. Wickham of Chicago and Harry Wickham of Ainsworth are in Keota visiting Dr. E. St. Wickham.
A Scranton coal dealer asserts that their celebrated coal is priced no higher than the regular rates charged by reputable merchants for other coal. The note emphasizes no premium for quality.
June events and travel notes show Warren Hami returning from bankers convention at Cedar Rapids. Various locals visit relatives and attend commencements. mentions of Miss Nora Stewart, Eva Reed, and Mary Deyoe at Cedar Falls and Cedar Walls events, plus notable travels to Washington and Sigourney.
Charles Yeager of Crawfordsville visited today and will spend Sunday with friends. The B Y P U plans an ice cream social this evening on the vacant lot south of the post office. The K F P and Rathbone sisters meet at their hall tomorrow afternoon and then march to the cemetery to decorate graves of deceased members.
June 18 reports show Miss Delia Champion arriving from Iowa City to stay with H A White family while Mrs M L Miller visits her brother in Columbus Junction. Several others travel to Oskaloosa Washington and Columbus City for illness visits business, and social events. A Methodist church children’s day program drew a large crowd and 17 dollars was raised at an ice cream social as William Plummer works on a cement walk.
Mrs Arnold of Richmond visited Friday with her daughter Mrs Mae Rittenhouse. Miss Nina Bartholomew married Bar L Smith Thursday at the bride’s parents home. Mrs Martha Levestone returned from Iowa City after commencement. Heines and Smith are constructing new barns this summer. The Mutual Telephone Co held a Prairie Flower meeting Thursday.
June 18 items show residents visiting and traveling among Washington Crawfordsville and Columbus Junction. Names include Mrs L L Teas Miss Edna Young Jennie Wooley Will McKee and others. An Epworth League ice cream social is planned and invitations issued for the marriage of Miss Lot Maxwell and Mack DeLong on June 27 at the bride’s parents’ home.
Last evening a buggy runaway threw Mrs. John Jackson and Miss Mae Dodd. Miss Dodd suffered a Collier's fracture with both bones in her right arm above the wrist broken. They were taken to the Rathmel home for care.
Miss Dodd sustained a fractured arm when a horse and buggy toppled over a fence at Central park. Taken to her parents’ home on West Jefferson Street, she rests easier today after the fracture was reduced. Mrs. Jack-SOD escaped unharmed aside from a few bruises. A subsequent rig replacement was arranged.
Daily personal notices report numerous residents traveling on business to Burlington Muscatine and Cedar Falls. It notes several weddings engagements and a birth with brief court and health updates, including a couple visiting relatives, a short court session, and a man recovering from tonsillitis.
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