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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1901
Page
4
Found note directs application at JOURNAL office. Two rental items listed: a seven room cottage in good condition forty four blocks from the square in care of J. KF. Henderson and a furnished front room on the third floor west end of the Rookery.
Every Tuesday to April 30 1901 the Iowa Central Railway runs excursions at unusually low lower rates for single trips. Tickets list destinations but exclude Washington Idaho Montana Oregon and British Columbia. for details contact Iowa Central ticket agents or Geo S Batty GP and TA Marshalltown Iowa.
Travel promotions from Washington to Chicago with Pullman Sleeper service daily except Sunday at 8 15 p m One fare plus 2 00 and sales on February 28 March 1 and 2 Very low single trip and round trip rates to the Pacific Northwest on specific sale dates Agent F E Stewart promotes comfort and speed on the first class route from Washington DC
On Tuesdays in February March and April the Iowa Central Railway offers one way Settlers and Colonists excursion tickets to pilots in California Oregon Washington Montana Idaho and British Columbia at very low rates. California tickets bought Tuesdays are valid for travel in Tourist Cars on Wednesdays. For details contact the Iowa Central ticket agent or Geo S Brearry G P T A Marshalltown Iowa.
The notice promotes 21 day excursion tickets at one fare plus 82 for trips to all points on the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway north of Abbott Shell Rock and Waverly. It urges land buyers to contact Iiten and Brooks in Cedar Rapids for full information and lists numerous states and territories served by Cedar Rapids Route agents.
A band of seventy armed insurgents struck Suog in South Ilocos Luzon killing one native and abducting five, then burned fifty houses at Santa Maria. Americans repelled the raid with one wounded, and two civilians killed as the rebels retreated to the mountains.
The issue from Madrid dates a November 20 1900 proclamation by Aguinaldo ordering summary execution for murder assault brigandage and treason and denounces foreign clergy as enemies. Additional items report Colorado Prohibitionists backing Mrs Nation, local obituaries Andrew Tansy Keota James Smith and March events at Iowa colleges, church events and social notices rounded by travel and civic items.
At Young America school house five miles NW of town a box supper yielded a cake sold for 7. Miss Nora Eckles won most popular lady with 38 votes, Mrs John Campbell 32. Music by Charles B Hughes and John Campbell. Announcement of Ye Old Folks program and March 4. Death of Lizzie Cunningham Crawfordsville after long illness. funeral held this afternoon.
Mr and Mrs J A Y Ashby and Gerald returned from St Louis after a fine visit and saw Homer at work. Navy officials have taken in over 300 men there. Presbyterian Ladies seek liberal patronage tomorrow. Housekeepers offered a substantial Saturday meal for families. Editor A R R Miller of the Democrat was a Davenport passenger yesterday morning. Numerous other local movements, visitors, and postings follow including Miss Emeline Warren, Miss Nellie Kuwer, and Mrs Riley planning new ventures.
The Georgia Minstrels cancel their Graham engagement next Thursday evening. A later date may be possible but is doubtful.
Two new phones installed by Washington Telephone Company yesterday with more expected soon. The note asks to cut names and paste into a directory listing Dr Ballard resident at 74 Brown Bugey Co 302.
Special to The Evening Journal reports the Iowa forecast with fair conditions tonight and Saturday. Cooler air moves in Saturday, especially in the extreme west portion tonight.
Racine Wisconsin reports a social uproar after Mrs Annie H Beck widow marries Philip I Hess a well known local merchant in Waukegan Illinois. Hess left on a wedding tour to southern states and will return in weeks.
Coroners jury charges Captain Ward and Pilot Jordan with criminal negligence after the Rio de Janeiro wreck. The company is censured for employing a Chinese crew.
Reports from across the nation note John McKenzie of Terre Haute named umpire by President Sexton for the Iowa Illinois Indiana league. Other items include river and harbor appropriations exceeding 50 million dollars and a war revenue reduction bill conference actions, plus miners and operators at Ottumwa clashing over wage scales and a smallpox case in Evansville with a local steamboat worker moved to the pesthouse.
The report traces Andrew Carnegie's pledge of 25000 for a Jackson Tennessee free public library, a Milan Musicians Home tragedy, a steamer collision off Norfolk, a New York jewelry heist, and military and royal movements. It notes murder claims, port and weather incidents, and local fires in Mantua Ohio with substantial losses. City youths fight over skates while trains strike a fatal blow to Gus Bode. Authorities discuss reforms and labor raises amid a broad slate of 1900s era events.
A promotional note extols Dr. Pierce s Favorite Prescription as aiding new mothers by strengthening the body and ensuring a smoother delivery. It claims healthier mothers and babies, with testimonial from Mrs Edwin H Gardner of Beechwood Massachusetts describing a lighter labor and subsequent good health after using the remedies.
Captain Leyhe of the Grey Eagle and river man Sam Howard offer information clearing the alleged murder of a decapitated box corpse near Kaskaskia Illinois. They identify the deceased as Ed Hussey a river employee who died aboard the Grey Eagle in July 1900 and was buried two miles south of St Genevieve Missouri.
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