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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1912
Page
5
Local and personal notes list visits and journeys with many names. Miss Alice Adams teaches at Ainsworth and stayed over Sunday with Miss Eliabeth Irwin. Mrs. Fred Werner of Brighton visits relatives and returns home. Several others, including Miss Elda Manson and Miss McConnell of Des Moines, travel for visits.
Local residents and visitors converge on Maquoketa for W C T U events and family gatherings. Notable names include Mrs Alla Edworthy from Des Moines and the Shannon and Badenoch families visiting for reunions and weddings. The Fair store advertises its goods as popular, with various locals traveling to Davenport, Ottumwa, Muscatine, and Chicago for events and shopping.
The manager declares a show with a real stream real trees real horses real flowers and real grass and real chickens and he aims to include real actors in performances.
Mr and Mrs A B Adams and daughter Dorothy returned from Muscatine after the death of Adams sister Miss Elizabeth Adams. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon in Muscatine. The Fair sells dry cord wood at three dollars a card. Professors Nevin and Doreen of Keota were among Keota visitors at the football game last Saturday. Mrs J A Crawford and daughter Grace of Dubuque returned home after visiting relatives.
A clothier proposes distributing 10 000 blotting papers bearing a large all wool trousers for 2 dollars slogan. The printer cautions that readers may use the blotter as a sample of the goods, questioning the plan.
E J Edwards recounts how ex president Millard Fillmore and Thurlow Weed, once close allies turned rivals, renewed their friendship in 1875 at Saratoga Springs. Weed, nearly blind, sought reunion after recognizing Fillmore by voice, and the two exiles of politics shared a heartfelt moment on a hotel veranda.
Eastern city doctors warn that a pipe bit is as germ laden as a moistened cigar end or cigarette. They advise against placing any smoking item on desks or windowsills and urge using a rack or not laying it down at all to avoid microbial transfer.
The piece describes Massachusetts and New York as leading founder states nourished by European money and culture, noting Virginia’s pride and sacrifices, malaria’s impact on Kentucky, and Kentucky’s frontier settlement by English, Irish, and Scots with extensive Indian conflicts and wars from 1812 to 1846.
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