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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1900
Page
4
Funeral services for little Sadie Peters were held today at one o'clock in the Welsh neighborhood with interment in the Welsh cemetery. Various notices follow about visitors, births, sales, and local events including a band concert program and railroad ticket sale details.
Fair tonight and Sunday is forecast for Iowa. Mrs. C. M. Guthrie returns from Havre, while Sheriff Teeter comes back from Mt Pleasant. Mrs John Gary returns home from a visit at Orion Lil.
A compact page shows a lost engraved pin, a girl needed for general housework, bicycle for sale priced at $12, and rental and trade ads for land and rooms. Also announces affordable excursions from Washington to Colorado Utah Yellowstone Kansas City and Paris with agency tickets and lines listed for sale.
Market table fragment lists June through August figures and codes including 304 423 424 434. No clear events or names but indicates trading data adjacent to Chicago markets.
A fragmentary prompt offers little readable context. The text hints at choosing options but provides no clear people places dates or events to identify or summarize into a coherent news item.
The Milwaukee congress adopted the plan of permanent organization naming it International Mining Congress. Its objects include fostering fraternal relations among mining interests in many countries and the United States, advancing related pursuits, and improving U S mining laws while establishing a national department of mining. Members are appointed by chiefs executives and pay 5 dollars annually.
June 23 report from Saginaw Michigan details a city council investigating committee session that fails to reveal new coal scandal developments. Hydrant Inspector Mosier tested, witnesses say he sold old pipes for hauling costs benefiting draymen. Julius Zahner testified to weekwork pay, giving surplus to Mosier, sparking a fist fight later halted by police.
United States marshals arrest Harry E. Reynolds at the Saratoga hotel in Chicago on a charge of taking a letter containing a $50 check addressed to J. Reynolds of St Louis. Reynolds, who wed Alice Carroll to avoid jail in Springfield, Ill, spent a night in the county jail after failing to post bonds. The couple’s marriage followed vagrancy arrest after fleeing by rail.
On July 34 and 4th the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern railway will offer excursion tickets at reduced rates to points within 200 miles of the selling station. Tickets are valid for return until July 5th inclusive.
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