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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1901
Page
3
A clutter of brief town notices chronicles arrivals and visits from Davenport to Des Moines. Individuals from Lamphere to Haight move, travel, or shop, with farm talks, millinery work, and a notable class color skirmish at the High School.
A series of short notes lists individuals visiting or traveling from Havre and nearby towns. A. Ritchie, Morrell Law, Ed Johnson, Clyde Sands, Miss Isabell Davidson, and others are noted as business visitors, arrivals, or travelers from Winfield, Davenport, Galesburg, La Harpe, Keota, and Richland with multiple departures to Chicago, North English, Millersburg, and home.
News by Telephone reports C. J. Worel began a morning drive to Arkansas. Richmond youths Frank Welte, William Lehman, Ralph Strabala and L. G. Keifer attended M. W. A. lodge in Washington and enjoyed a good time. Mrs Reaney of Lettsville visits Mrs Lee Derby. Mrs J. W. Orr travels to Libertyville. Horace Seeley and family in Washington. David Logan and wife relocate to Southwest Washington. The Globe Barber Shop renovates and reopens with elevator access on East Side.
Real estate notice offers fifteen acres of good bottom land with balance upland and a small house plus outbuildings seven miles southeast of Washington. Price thirty dollars per acre. Will trade for town property or stock or sell on small payment. Address KK R Suirn 134 Fairfield Iowa. Also reports Rock Island wrecking train derailment near Brighton with no damage or delays.
A collection of small town notices and ads including Weeks Break-Up-a-Cold Tablets, pharmacy and cigar shop mentions, visitors in Mediapolis, residents returning from Chicago, free cabinet photos for seniors, travel to Farmington and Kansas, wallpaper sales, Eucaline Toilet Powder promotion, and Miller-Hickman show pricing with ladies free Monday night. Includes local names such as Mrs H. M. Eicher, Miss Mabel Dewey, Stanley Miller, Chas. Anderson, J. D. Webster, Foley Gallery, and Keota buyers.
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