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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1909
Page
2
Short ad items promote The Fair and The Vienna with sales on stove pipe elbows Dutch Cleans ir bread toasters pies and cookies. Local names Frey Kalona J Jardon Smith Dayton and Madrigal are shown alongside Costa Rica lecture notices at the M I church and the M EF church with generic trade promotions.
The jumble lists fairs, bakeries, visits and sales in several towns. Mentions Robert Stuart in Kansas City on business, Mrs. McCallan visiting Winterset, and trains and lectures. A tornado disaster report from Hamburg, Tennessee notes killed civilians and damage to the Shiloh battlefield monument.
Former United States Senator William Lindsay died in Frankfort Kentucky at the age of seventy two. The report notes his long career and service in the Senate.
Washington patent attorneys report the grant this week to Iowa citizens of patents for a trap door list, card holder, cuff shaper, shooting glasses, emergency exit door fastener, window shade bracket, portable hoist, tile making machine, ironing board cabinet, mail bag crane, plow attachment, and a device for attaching wires to posts. The listing includes names A G Bogges O A Bremer S M Cole E Cook J B Hawkins A A Hazard J L Kraus M J Gadient W J McCracken B A Stocking A H Stone K R Van Winkle A C Wilcox A Burkholder. Also noted are work gloves at The Fair.
Tickets for lectures by Prof. Co. C. Nutting will be sold at the Democrat and Journal offices. Mrs. Jesse Phillips departed for Ft. Dodge to attend the Methodist W. F. M. S. convention as a local society delegate.
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