Local and Personal Notes Round Washington Visitors
A long list of locals and visitors appears in Washington today. Oott and Wyman Beardsley with Mira Ollie Beardsley travel from Haskins toward Joy Illinois, while Mr. and Mrs. Harry Honts of Winfield head to Muscatine. Various residents visit relatives or shops in nearby towns, and appointments include Miss Blanche Stafford and Mrs. Wm Durand in Council Grove. The day features a marriage license for Lloyd Easter and Gerwude M. Wagner.
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Alba Beardsley
Wyman Beardsley
Mira Ollie Beardsley
Haskins
Washington
Joy, Il
Harry Honts
Winfield
City
Muscatine
Blanche Stafford
Wm.Durand
Council Grove
Kansas
Base Ball Tomorrow Sherrard vs Washington
Local notices mention a baseball game scheduled for tomorrow between Sherrard and Washington in Sherrard Illinois. Other items note visits by Will Shearer of Keota to the city and Mrs J T Anderson and Ruth boarding a Pueblo Colorado visit with Mr and Mrs Caughey Southwell and Dr A J Laird of Ainsworth visiting today. Mrs A W Webb and daughters Velma and Helen of Richmond California were visiting local homes and have left for Texas after their stay.
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J. T. Anderson
Ruth
Pueblo
Colo
Caughey Southwell
A&w. H. Webb
Velma
Helen
Richmond
Cal
Cal Nicola
Howard McCleery
Texas
Fine Western and Banking Pictures at the Lyric
Local patrons enjoy a roaring comedy Fine Western plus a Banking picture at the Lyric tonight. A parade of visitors and residents including Miss May Marr Otto P Dede and Mrs White with Miss Genevieve travel in and out of the city while bank deposits figures are listed in a notice.
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the Lyric
Otto P. Dede
Oskaloosa
Garden of the Hesperides Tale Told by Parents and Children
A family reads and discusses the myth of the Garden of the Hesperides. The tale describes the golden apples guarded by Atlas's daughters and the dragon Ladon, Hercules completing the labor, and the elusive, legendary isle of the Blessed beyond the setting sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hesperides
Daddy
Evelyn
Jack
Ike
America
Juno
Atlas
Ladon
Hercules
Parasol Gift Hint and Local Social Notes in Vienna
Brief community items from Vienna and surrounding towns include visits to Brigh ton Keota and Delta, Chautauqua attendance by several Misses, relatives traveling to Cedar Rapids, and notes on social events. Local ministers and citizens travel for church meetings and family visits.
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Baptist Church Lawn
Florence
Alice Crone
Keota
Pennsylvania Railroad Wages Total and Expanding Rail Lines
Figures show the Pennsylvania paid 2.22 billion dollars in wages over 25 years, about twice the national debt, and has over 73,500 stockholders. The Southern railway seeks bids for numerous locomotives and cars including 20 first class coaches and 26 thousand tons of rails as part of expansion plans. The ICC launches inquiries into private-car use, lumber rates, and carload weights while new Oklahoma railroads progress and Frisco expands its agency plan nationwide.
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Pennsylvania
United States
Southern Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Mississippi
Deafness cured only by constitutional remedies says Hall's Catarrh Cure
An advertisement claims deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and that only constitutional remedies can restore hearing. It promises one hundred dollars for any case of deafness caused by catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes related products from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Burglary Strikes J B Crooks Home On North Second
The J B Crooks residence on North Second avenue was broken into yesterday between four and five pm. Jewelry and cash were stolen after a screen window was removed. Items taken include a gilded man’s watch and chain a gold ladies watch and neck chain a ruby stickpin and a pearl ring plus four dollars. The sheriff offers twenty five dollars reward and describes the jewelry to neighboring towns. A man seen leaving the house last evening is the only lead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Crooks
North Second Avenue
Mrs. Crooks
K. of P
Melo Kos Sustains Fractured Skull After Hand-Car Fall
Melo Kos of this city is in Davenport hospital with a fractured skull after falling from a hand car on the Davenport Muscatine line near Black Hawk. His condition is reported critical. his brother Laudie Kos rushed to Davenport with word of the accident.
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Melo Kos
John Kos
Davenport
Laudie Kos
Melo
Washington
Kos
Reular
Decision affirmed in Moffitt case in Iowa seduction trial
Washington worded report says the supreme court sustained the district court ruling in the state of Iowa versus Charles Moffitt. Tried last fall before Judge Willcockson in Wellman area, the defendant was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary after a seduction conviction. Appellant was P. J. Hanley.
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Washington
Washington District Court
State of
Iowa
Charles Moffitt
Supreme Court
Willcockson
Wellman
P. J. Hanley
Duel by billiards ends in fatal forehead wound
In September 1845 M Lefant and M Melfant quarreled over billiards and chose the balls for a duel. They drew for the first throw, Melfant won, and his shot struck Lefant in the forehead, killing him instantly.
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M. Lefant
M. Melfant
Melfant
Lefant
Duel Ends Peacefully In Edinburgh Midnight Encounter
In Edinburgh two Italians with a single pistol agreed by lot who would shoot first. The first shot missed and graciously passed the pistol. The second shot also failed, and the combatants embraced, then left the field arm in arm.
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Edinburgh
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J. A. Todd
Robert Clyde
Ainsworth
Spaulding Home
Sherrard
Ill
Nellie Hebner
R. M. Wilson
Hattie Wenger
McNamara’s
George Dempsey
Henry Dupuis
Joe Anderson
Crawfordsville
Luella Shaw
Congress Hotel
John Sawtell
Oshkosh, Wis
S. W. Hart Fruit Farm
Rivenside
Rtfue
Lloyd Easter
Gerwude M. Wagner
Dade Shearer
DePauw University
Greencastle
George Young
Katherine Stichter
Iowa City
Teacher's Institute
Mutual Fire
W. M. Sutherland
Pata
S. J. Kellogg
St. Louis
Mrs. Kellogg
Col
C. J. Wilson
Cedar Rapids
The
State Bar Association
Baptist Church
H. M. Brock
Pleasant Plain
L. C. Denison
Vienna
Celeste Criz
C . H. Boileau
Phone
LOO Mead
Georgiana Wilson
Charles Hebner
Ferne Randle
Havre
Bessie Swift
South Seventh Avenue
C. H. Boileau
the Star
Wilber Bolan
W. T. Decker
Brighton
Mable Dickson
Permelia Dickson
R. L. McGugin
Hr. A. Klippert
Carthage, Til
Karl Simmerman
Fart Midridge
Howard Eldridge
Jay Brown
Henry Russel
Royal Market
Todd Stuart
Mutual
Sherrard, Ill
Will Shearer
A. J. Laird
May Marr
Washington National Bank
A. Nicola
Eldorado
Kaw
C. L. Langworthy
J. A. Harwood
Baptist
John Stewart
Chicago
John Fox
Kansas City
Rock Island
Marie
Lucile Martin
Grace Kisor
Eugene Kisor
Hugh Herrington
North Paelsh
Mr. Herrington
Iowa Lumbermen’s Association
Pareeo
Aties
Nellie Bowman
Margaret Haas
Lorraine Cleary
Dorothy Miller
Charles Beatty
Karl Jackson
Perry Hays
Edna
Delta
Cloyee Beard
Monmouth
I. B. Schreckengast
Lincoln
Nebr
Keola
Methodist Church
S. W. Livingston
E. D. Morrison
W. Brockhart
W. M. Keeley
Ednaey
H. J. Smith
Wapello
D. W. Brown
Keokuk
BE. J. Grant
A. M. FE
Mrs. Edgar Wilson
Ray Alberson
Des Moines
J. A Kellogg
A. N. Alberson
University Place
Tom Shrader
Tom Dodds
Tom
Orr & Patten
T. W. Harwood
Davyenport
Mame Shearer
Fairfield
Lara Hogue
Laura Noyes
Ethel McCreedy
Eathel McElwain
Texas, Kansas & Omaha
Oklahoma
Amarillo
Tex
Hastings
Neb
Panhandle
Dunlap
Northern & Pacific
Ellis
Kans
Union Pacific
Frisco
J.B. Crooks
Enport, Lowa
North Side Square
Washington, Iowa
Farmers & Merchants State Bank
Capital
American Steel Post
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