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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1909
Page
2
Local items list assorted goods at The Fair including tea kettles roasters Dutch Cleanser and coffee pots. Shoppers see weekly promotions and bakery and photograph offerings plus travel and visiting notes from area residents and businesses through the day.
Listings include Royal Doulton ware at The Fair and a surprise party for the football game Saturday. 2313 offers 10 days trial on Parker's Foul pens money back. Also reports Benn, Clyde, Dusenberry, and Macon traveling to Muscatine Columbus Junction Brooklyn Libertyville for business or visits.
Miss Stacy Putman visits relatives in Havre for a week. Mrs J W Zaring travels to Cotter to see her son Glenn. Rev W F Graham from West Chester arrives for a city visit. Mr and Mrs Will Logan and 80 Clarence go to Crawfordsville for the day. Local entertainment at the opera house features three reels of films two illustrated songs and a prize. admission 5 and 10 cents.
Mrs. Merle Sage departed yesterday for Des Moines with her husband there a week or two. Mrs. J H Nesbitt returned to Rockford Illinois after visiting the J F Henderson home. Mrs Gowdy and Mrs Saville of Monmouth Illinois returned home after visiting relatives in the city. Mrs J Harmeier and Mrs John Marie went to Iowa City to attend a relative's wedding today. Wanted Hides Furs and scrap iron Colin and Share Phone 387 Washington house.
George H. Paul and Ralph Shannon were aboard No. 1 yesterday morning with Paul headed to Kansas City and Shannon bound for Corpus Christi Texas. Mrs. Lida Thompson of Walnut Iowa, visiting at Stephen Hawkins home in Ainsworth, changed cars here on her way home. Mrs. Milo Patterson living northwest of town arrived home yesterday after visiting Ainsworth and Stephen Hawkins. Mrs. C L McClannahan and daughter Miss Bessie of Monmouth Illinois, visiting Prof. F G Robb, left for Ainsworth yesterday morning to visit Dr. H B Hamilton.
An Omaha style ad urges early farm loan applications to secure favorable terms. It claims the farm loan business doubled this year as customers save money, with endorsements from Edmund D. Morrison. Local notes mention visits and departures of residents from Geneva Nebraska to nearby towns and travels of Mrs. Helen Robertson and Mrs. Jennie Houck, plus short trips by T. J. Allen and others.
A flurry of visits and errands unfolds with Joe Trotter from Ainsworth in town visiting friends, Mrs. J. W. Brown returning to Crawfordsville, and several others traveling to Columbus Junction, Pleasant Plain, Keota, Birmingham, Oskaloosa, and Des Moines for meetings, family visits, or business.
In Cleveland on November 3, Herman C. Baehr defeated four term mayor Tom L. Johnson by at least 4000 votes. Johnson conceded and vows to run again in two years. Baehr’s win ends Johnsons street railway war and pledges a 6 percent return on street railway stock.
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