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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1900
Page
4
The Patricola Grand Concert Company starts the Graham lecture course on Wednesday evening November 7 at 8 30. Box office seating at Graham opens Saturday 9 am to noon. Season tickets available from A H Wilson. seats reserved for all eight entertainments. Course price 2 00. Converts.
Immense audiences attend Saturday sermons and meetings with speeches by Cato Sells N H Kendall and M L Temple. Generous applause and strong turnout mark the event as substantial public interest fills the venue.
The interview with the Civil War commander discussing McKinley era policy praised the audience for understanding the silver issue as dead, illustrated a belief in posthumous punishment, and noted expansions tariff and imperialism topics. He expects a favorable election outcome for his party and warned against adverse results for the country.
A second body was recovered from the Tarrant Building ruins in New York. The man’s right leg and left arm were missing, features were unrecognizable, and clothing offered no identifying marks. No other remains had been found.
Frances Jane Brown Faris born July 18 1853 Morning Sun Louisa County married J P Faris October 17 1872 later joined Covenanter and Second U P churches raised in U P faith. She left two children Nellie Stewart and Roy. Funeral held at 422 South Marion Street and Elm Grove Cemetery with Rev J R Logue and Second U P church choir. Dozens of relatives from Morning Sun Atkinson Burlington and Mediapolis attended.
The article notes 1046 total registrations across wards by Saturday night and expects numbers to rise when students and others abroad return. It recounts local entertainments by W. F. Brinton and family in Brighton and Rohland, crowding venues, plus residents buying Belgian hares and planning to vote in Keosauqua.
W F Brinton and wife pledge top fare at the opera house on November six with moving pictures and music including the Galveston Storm and other battles. Comic subjects provide laughs as election returns filter in. Admission ranges from 10 to 20 cents with half the net receipts donated to Sunset Park. Doors 7 30 curtain 8 30 for about two and a half hours.
Nd Broomquist died Saturday afternoon at 4 40. He resided six miles south of the city and came here with his parents last March. Born in St Louis he was 16 years month and 19 days old. Funeral services were held at Eureka church conducted by Rev Cannan and interment followed in Schrock cemetery.
The forecast calls for fair weather in Iowa tonight and Tuesday. Local events include political dinners with Hon. J. Wilson hosting guests M. L. Temple and N. H. Kendall. McKinley and Bryan buttons to be given away at Johnson's bakery tomorrow. Breuer Music Store piano sales in five days. Various residents traveling, voting, or attending events. District Court opens tomorrow with Judge A. R. Dewey presiding. Regular city council meeting planned for tonight.
Milton Knapp of Whiteland Indiana is killed in a feud with his brother in law Pherson who is 70. Pherson struck Knapp with a heavy stick at Harbert farm near sunset and rode home. Knapp’s body was found the next morning mauled by hogs and the case is described as a feud turned deadly.
Chicago report details Mums Leone the clairvoyant and her 18 year old daughter Deborah who vanished after a Saturday morning visit to collect a bill. Leone fainted in the Harrison street station while pleading for help, saying her powers failed to locate Deborah. Deborah, a violinist, had left Ninety-ninth and Halsted Street to meet a patron and did not return.
Miss Kate Montgomery visited the McEiliony home over Sunday then returned to Brighton to resume school. A. Ritchie and Pollock Wallace traveled to Fairfield to work on the Louden building. The event notes discounted Chrysanthemums and Palms for Thursday and Friday, Nov 8 and 9, with remarks that everybody is invited.
For sale a five cent cigar described as the best on the market. listing notes cue about availability and pricing in a concise classifieds style entry.
Classified snippets advertise a cheap small house near the square for rent and a farm prospect asking about a fruit farm with a deep well and wind pump. A buyer notes willingness to trade a town property.
10 cents a copy. Only a few more copies left. All page Atlas of China, 12x14 inches, usually 25c. On sale at all large stations of the C. R. & N. Ry. for 10 cents, or sent postpaid to any address for 33 cents, by Jaok Farler, A GP & TA Borw&NrRy, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Prosp. Clive land buyers can secure no better rates than those offered by the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northwestern Ry. Round trip tickets with 21 days limit are available to points on the line north of Abbott Sheil Rock and Waverly. Rates plus $2, multiple September to December dates. Agents Itson & Brooks Cedar Rapids Iowa provide info. John G. Farmer A G P T A B C R N Ry Cedar Rapids IA. decl8&
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