Adourns Rumored Indictments In McKinstry Case At Court
The McKinstry case dominates court with defense witnesses and expected rebuttal evidence. Grand Jury closed its term with rumors of several indictments including gambling dens. County Sunday School Convention proceeds with program notes. Journal promotes itself as the city’s best advertising medium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey
Albert McKinstry
Tie
Messrs
Yockey
Turner Bros
Long
The
Presbyterian Church
Journal
Jackson
Thomas Maxwell
South West
Washington
Free Night At The Graham and Local News Flashes
The Graham offers ladies free night with 80 cent tickets giving one free ticket to a lady as the play Lynne is shown tonight. Reports note budding rail service and bus lines aiding travelers, plus a humorous local rail fare joke. A medical cure ad promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure claiming a hundred dollar reward for any failure. Local diversions include Frank Rogers purchasing a wagonette and Miss Alice Samson named English and Science chair at the Academy.
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The
Chase-Lister Co
East Lynne
the Graham
Lynne
Hall
Crang & Co
Toledo
Frank Rogers
Cedar Rapids
Frank
Alice Samson
Academy
Samson
Monmouth College
Special Bargains in County Farms and Implements
A local real estate listing touts two prime farms of 200 and about 180 acres with fair improvements, wells, orchards, and prairie soil. Prices 52.50 and 55 per acre. another 60 per acre with two-story house, barns, orchard, and fencing. Seventy farms on the list plus ads for music lessons and office near the opera house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rt. R
R. R
Washington
Des Moines Man Guilty Of Obscene Letters
Samuel Pollock an elderly bachelor from Verdi Washington county was found guilty of mailing obscene letters to a fourteen year old girl. The jury quickly returned a verdict after fifteen minutes. He showed no emotion upon the verdict and received a sentence of five years for improper conduct with three offenses likely extending his life in prison.
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Des Moines
Samuel Pollock
Verdi
Washington County
Local entertainment features historical figures in Carroll hall play
In Brianvron Ta on Thursday a Christian church group staged a costume pageant in Carroll hall with numerous locals portraying famous historical personalities such as Martha Washington Queen Elizabeth and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The event drew a crowded audience as Ottumwa and nearby towns embrace the female minstrel craze with performances like East Lynne tonight.
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Brianvron
Carroll Hall
Sappho
Nabens
Mattie White
Martha Washington
N. Westenhaver Carey
M Evans
Queen Elizabeth
Kate Maun
Bridget O'Flanagan
Heacock
Mary
Scotts
Belle Brier
Louisa M. Alcott
Mattie Shafer Isabella
Spain
Swisher Josiah Allens
Nan Thorne Pocahontes
Jesale Parks Maud Muller
Mertie Whitecker Zantippe
Endicott Gay Darling
Winnie DeLong
Junie Deeds Mother Goose
Huntley Cleopatra
Marie Heacock
Garfield
Frisbee i Gees
Will Johnson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Terry Oden
Miss Huntley
Miss Johnson
Keeley Real Estate Notary Promotes Schedules and Trains
Des Moines Valley Division timetable details list trains with departure and arrival times. Notary public T. T. Keeley operates at 207 West Washington Street with various serial marks and expirations.
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T. T. Keeley
Notary Public
West
Washington Street
Washington
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Henry Schroff
Great Cloak House
Julius Stein & Co
New York
Stein
Stein's
Jadee
Mercer & Chilcote
Japan
Ceylon
Minnesota
South Side Square
A. Nicola
Wheels OF Justice
McKinstry
Brookhart
Attor
Ney Bailey
Sheriff Teeter
the Grand Jury
P. Howland
H.R. Stark
Leta Glenn
Curtis Meacham
Wooo da, Meacham
Palaees Rta
Dora Lemley
Gertrude Smith
W. Neal
Nora Motts Reto
A. Powler
George Blair
Harley Black
Chas. Ward
Jennie Perguson
S. B. Dewey
Arthur Robinson
Eastern Star
Row & Bush
D. E
Bush
J. S. Nichols
Ron & Nichols
Mr. Bush
Mr. Nichols
fTrm
Theresa
Milwaukee
St. James Catholic School
Germany
Chicago
F. C. Hunt
Shields & Dawson
Jake
Hubbard
Guarnteed
W. F. Haight
Weington Buggy
Wanh
G. W. Wiley
Evening Journal
Yours Truly, B&b. F. Dixon
Norton,p
E. E. Thomas
Opera Louse
Rj. A
Re, 1 & Co
Whigher
Pollock
Brighton Entertainment
Boyer
T. W. Randall
Amanda Carkuff
Dutch Creek Two
Ottumwa
Klein
Rookery Building
Offce
Squire Hender
J. T. Stevenson
Des Moines Valley Division
D. M Val. Div
Gunther
Win Smouse
Cal State
WIN Smouse & CO
S. E. Cor
Square
Washington, Ta
Ml. Lombardo
M, Lombardo
North Side Square
Washington National Bank
Casey Bros
Dougherty Bros
West Side Clothiers
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