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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1905
Page
3
Fair tonight and Thursday with moderate temperatures. Washington dispatch from February 28 notes Iowa outlook concise for today and tomorrow.
A collage of items from Johnson's bakery sales to social visits and travels. Dr. W. E. Parsons returns to Fairfield. Carl Wilson leaves for Mexico on business. Frank Leeper and Pearl Arie obtain a license to wed. Entertainment noted at the Graham opera house. Notables from Crawfordsville, Oskaloosa, Harper, and Des Moines visit or travel.
Washington dispatch details the joint statehood bill’s revival plans for next session, aiming to move it through the House and finish in the Senate, with Republicans confident in stronger next-term votes. It also notes a naval appropriations clash, Senate objections, and presidential influence shaping legislation, plus remarks on party machinery and a Dolliver statue tribute in Statuary Hall.
Next Thursday evening the Booker T. Washington Literary Society will host an oyster supper and musical program at the A M E church for the benefit of the church. Supper starts at 8 o clock. By order of the committee Mrs N L Black Chair.
This evening at 7 30 the regular love feast will be held in the Methodist church in place of the regular prayer meeting service. All members of the church are asked to be present. Rev. J B Schreckengast, Pastor.
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