10 May 1895
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1895
Page
1
This morning at 9 in Ottumwa the marriage of Harland TH Dawson and Ada BE Williams was solemnized by the bride’s father Rev Tl Williams. The ceremony, at the family home, drew relatives and intimate friends, followed by a formal wedding breakfast and a two month tour of the East after a brief Chicago stay. The couple will reside in St. Louis.
Wirt B. King of Fairfield and Everett N. Bowman of Mt. Pleasant earned cadet appointments for West Point and Annapolis after a rigorous two day examination in Mt. Pleasant and Burlington. Seventeen contestants faced eight subjects with reading and spelling noted as weaknesses. The selection hinges on literary merit with physical tests to occur later at the academies. The article also notes a Shaw piano review from Mrs. Norton's concert and EB E Thomas as dealer.
A Keokuk millinery man who owed the Reinfelds a few hundred dollars left on the evening train after they wrote him a check on the Washington National Bank. The check is likely to be sent here for collection, but it will be found not worth the paper it is written on.
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