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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1900
Page
3
Various brief items list residents and visitors such as J A Cunningham in Havre, Miss Julia Smiley in Winfield, and F E Swift returning from Ottumwa. Advertisements mention Brownie Cigar, Nice Dry Oak Wood at 4.50 per cord, and Todd Stuart quick turkeys for Thanksgiving. Rail shipments move through on the C R I & P with several carloads daily to the southwest.
Local scraps report visits and travel across Oskaloosa Crawfordsville Ainsworth Burlington and Washington. Mentions arrivals departures farm visits business trips and social notes plus a church service update and a new O R I & P time card change. Includes references to Johnson's Todd Stuart's and Miss Lyon with several named residents and towns.
A list of speakers and subjects shows a November to March schedule with John R Clarke Col. L F Copeland and others. Season tickets priced at 1.75 for seven numbers are offered by OC H Wilson.
Promoters offer low fare trips from Washington to Chicago and back for 8.99 on Nov 19 to 24 with a Pullman Sleeper nightly at 8:15 p.m. Winter tickets to the Pacific Northwest and other destinations are on sale on select dates.
The Iowa Central Railway starts a daily sleeping car service Sunday September 16 linking Minneapolis and Kansas City via St Paul Mason City Hampton Ackley Eldora Marshalltown Grinnell Oskaloosa and Albia. Cars depart Minneapolis at 8 05 am and reach Kansas City by 7 00 am next day with return service from Kansas City at 9 20 pm arriving St Louis next morning. schedules show multiple intermediate stops with times.
The notice offers good coal for sale cheap and invites all members of the singing class and others to meet at Swifts Hall on Monday at 7:30 PM to form a permanent organization. Readers are told to bring wants and lost and found items to the Journal office for assistance.
Ort Waters, proprietor, cleaned and dressed ladies shoes with special attention at the Gr Hotel Allen Shoe Shining Par lors. 94-If
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