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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1901
Page
3
A stream of brief items lists Allen's candy promotions and Johnson's bakery specials for tomorrow. Local residents such as Mr. and Mrs. Carson Anderson, A. J. Rankin, and others are noted in Thanksgiving and visiting contexts, with multiple mentions of hotels, stores, and events in Crawfordsville Brighton Okaloosa and nearby towns.
J Lindley Coon of north of Ainsworth will move to Newton next week to lead the Mutual Fire and Tornado Insurance Co office. Stewart's advertises cigars and tobaccos. Tom Schilling runs a popular hotel in Ainsworth, keeping over twenty guests nightly. Rev J E Van Winkle of the State Children's Home Society visited from Des Moines and placed Beulah Spargo with a good family in Letts.
Property offered at 3000 to 4000 dollars per acre with superior advantages over Washington county. Inquiry directed to George W. Howe.
Charley Reeves conducted two sales on Tuesday starting in Brighton with Nordyke general farm outfits worth 2200 dollars. He returned home at 2 PM to sell Emmons Poland China hogs which averaged 1685 dollars apiece, a rare price for top stock at auction.
Attorney for Archbishop Fenan announces recall of Father Jeremiah Crowley’s excommunication in Chicago. The move aims to end legal actions barring his worship at Holy Name Cathedral and follows the priest’s letter to Archbishop Martinelli expressing regret and retracting statements.
Ottawa reports Superintendent Primrose of the mounted police arrived on three months leave after advising government of a Yukon capture scheme which he could not confirm. Comptroller White says the Yukon scare is the last heard of. In Joliet Illinois a bank robbery at Kearby Harrison & Co. failed when a dynamite charge wrecked the vault but money remained secure.
Springfield November 28. Arguments before the board of equalization on railroads stock assessments. Aldermen Cullerton Brennan and Verne with Assistant Comptroller Allen Frost urged doubling the general rate to reflect fair cash value. John L. Pickering urged doubling the 1900 assessment of 1,000,000 for Chicago and Alton lines as the same corporation.
In Greencastle Indiana on November 28 a ceremony united three Riddles and three Trumps in a Riddles and Trumps wedding pattern. Twin Riddle brothers married twin Trump sisters, and Eva Riddle wed Bob Trump, brother to the sisters. The event drew local society interest for its unusual matchups and local lore of another Riddle twin set to wed soon.
President Roosevelt will urge Congress to cut duties on Cuban sugar in exchange for trade concessions once a native Cuban government is established and to lower Philippine sugar duties to stimulate production in those islands.
In Austin, twelve miles north of Helena, Charles Lindquist shot and likely fatally wounded his sweetheart Julia Tosterin before turning the pistol on himself, fracturing his skull. Relatives claim the incident was an accident and both are dying.
In Helena Montana on November 28 Amos Buck shot and killed his companion Harry Burwell after pretending to point an unloaded pistol. Buck allegedly joked before the fatal act, unaware the weapon was loaded.
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