Tramps Plentiful in Washington Amid Summer Jobs Rush
A wave of unemployed men travels westward this summer drawn by harvests and railroad work. Detachments press freight cars and flatcars as tramps seek steady labor from Washington to the southwest. Sheriff McCarty and Marshal Pratt report unprecedented hobos on the roads and railways, signaling widespread job scarcity.
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Tramps
Nock
Ainsworth
McCarty
Marshal Pratt
Ington
Fortune
Cole Younger to Lecture at Washington Opera House
Cole Younger Kincell aged sixty seven will give a moral lecture titled What Life Has Taught Me at the Washington opera house next Saturday night. He portrays life as an outlaw and convict who now speaks against wild living, with a final chance to hear him before a Pacific coast lecturing tour begins.
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Cole Younger Kincell
Washington Opera House
Mr. Younger
Cole Younger
Washington
Pacific Coast
Patent Grants Reported for Iowa Citizens
Meiers Davis and Davis report the grant this week of several patents to Iowa residents. Names include K J Bell Des Moines door latch for silos R C Campbell Harlan winding machine E Kinfeldt Davenport machining ends of metal blanks W Friedrichsen Miles vehicle spring H O L M and W H Fritts Sheldon advertising counter Grilk Davenport pot cover JA W Johnson Sioux City pilot lantern J B Johnson Albia sash lock J G G Ketcham Anamosa wagon hay rack N W Lyon Iowa City shock loading apparatus M J Malloy Davenport implement corrugating plastic street cover Meadows Fairfield grain R Pedersen Parkersburg grapple two patents O O G B Ramp Davenport motor.
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Washington
DD. C
Meiers Davis & Davis
K. J. Bell
Des Moines
R. C. Campbell
Harlan
E. Kinfeldt
Davenport
W. Friedrichsen
Miles
H. O
L. M
W. H. Fritts
Sheldon
Grilk
JA. W. Johnson
Sioux City
J. B. Johnson
Albia
JG. G. Ketcham
W. Lyon
Iowa City
Parkersburg
Grapple
B. Ramp
Hall's Catarrh Cure ad promises cure and refund
A testimonial for Hall's Catarrh Cure offers one hundred dollars for an uncured catarrh case. Cheney & Co. claim long friendship with P. J. Cheney and endorse the cure as a blood and mucous membrane remedy. Alding, Kinnan & Marvin promote the product. price 75 cents per bottle, with free memorials and family pills for constipation.
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Cheney & CO
Ip. J. Cheney
Hall
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