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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1901
Page
3
Prominent locals visit Burlington and Des Moines. Millinery assistants named in city and nearby towns. prices for bread ice cream and cigars plucked from ads. sales of wallpaper cleaning and residential transfers noted. several residents travel for business, visits, or staging improvements.
A string of short items lists people traveling to Albia Sigourney Muscatine Pleasant Plain Ainsworth Keota Fairfield and Chicago along with social calls and visits. Mentions include Rev Masson on No 15, Emery Jeck, Dr Biskamp, Wm Dodds, Link Hall, Miss Sarah Hughes, Mrs Rita Campbell, Lafayette Coop John Bellville, Mrs Al Keister, Ortus Waters shine parlor, Mrs Paugh, Mrs Imma Cunningham, Ola Shannon, a Firefly trip, Smoke Burnham Golden Buck, Asa Reid shipping horses, H B McCollum shipping to Ohio, Ott Richardson Joe Arnold and others attending Graham performance, and Rocky Mountain Tea sold at Stewart's.
Parkersburg West Virginia March 25. George Washington Anderson aged About sixty five was sent to the poorhouse by his seventeenth wife Martha Jenkins widow of a soldier. She learned he had sixteen other living wives and alleged deceit and bigamy. Anderson confessed to prior marriages and said the wives ranged from ages 23 to 65 across ten states and all married for money. Mrs Jenkins demanded divorce and restoration of property.
A Salt Lake City special meeting of Union Pacific stockholders approved amending articles to raise common capital by 100 million dollars and authorize issuance of the new stock. Directors' action to issue 100 million dollars of 4 percent bonds and secure the deal with a mortgage was also approved amid Harriman and associates purchases of Southern Pacific securities. Total capitalization rises to 295.4 million dollars.
Mrs G Brunsehneider, about 50, living near Toledo city limits, is in serious condition at St Vincent’s hospital after self inflicted wounds. She severed toes, ears, nose and skin in a repeated attack with scissors, prompting suspicion of temporary insanity amid domestic troubles.
A string of brief city items reports travelers and locals passing through or departing the area. Wilmot the tailor, Latta, and others are seen in transit for Cedar Rapids and Wapello while Major Lacey and Deputy Marshal Fulton move through on business or from Keokuk. Several residents face illness, travel plans, or social visits as Misses Sutton and Clark arrive for spring vacation with Mrs. Horne, and visitors from Idaho Falls and Keota attend meetings or head to Buffalo to join Pan Am exposition preparations.
Mr T O Foley photographed 121 residents over sixty free of charge over two weeks, weather hampered his work. Samuel Honner expects to finish city assessments Friday, noting more real estate changes than ever and that corrections reduce county auditor work. Also an ad for Weeks Break Up a Cold Tablets at Stewart’s Pharmacy.
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