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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1900
Page
3
A local advertisement extols cash pay as you go plans, promising profit sharing with customers. It urges buying flour, fencing, hardware, lawn mowers, groceries, furniture, gas, oil, steel ranges, and cook stoves at low cash prices with prices marked plainly.
Yesterday's storm brings local thundershowers across the county. A barn near Eureka was struck by lightning, killing a mule and injuring other livestock while a second barn owned by J T Simpson was struck. Advertisers must submit copy by 10 am to ensure same day changes.
Chas Burroughs started yesterday with the University Maroons. Degree of Honor names officers for coming six months. Widespread rain aided crops. Crawfordsville had a waterspout. Eureka saw severe lightning and a barn struck, killing a mule and injuring a horse. Many residents and locals are noted with travel, visits, and events across Muscatine and surrounding areas.
Local items report visits by J A Guest and Laura Rich at a kindergarten lunch. Numerous residents travel to Chicago Havre Minneapolis and Burlington with social calls and farewells. Upcoming events include Hawkeye Lodge degree work and Maroon athletics in Europe with London races and Paris Olympians.
Stewart's Pharmacy advertises a refreshing sanitary soap for babies and adults. It promises softening and preserving skin and claims it should be used in every nursery.
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