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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1903
Page
3
Allen's promotes reserved seats for an American Hobo performance at the Graham theater next Thursday October 29 with seat prices 24 35 and 50 cents. The company arrives with a challenge band and operatic orchestra. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.
Multiple brief items report local residents visiting relatives and towns, returns from trips, and small events. Mentions include O F Wabnitz from West Chester, Mort Keeley riding to West Chester, Mrs G M Welch from Ainsworth, J W Maxwell to Crawfordsville, and other Fairfield area social notes. Also notices on baseball, excursions, and a Rome political note about Alfonso and the Vatican.
Colonel W. Perkins of Perth Scotland, renowned European livestock judge, cables acceptance to judge cattle grades crosses and championships at the International Live Stock show in Chicago from November 28 to December 5. Included is contact via W. B. Skinner, Union Stockyards general agent.
The Chicago horse show begins at two and runs all week as a major social event. Reporters observe rich attendees and a box where Alice Roosevelt, the president’s daughter, drew attention. The piece contrasts elite society interest with country reader impressions and notes playful but critical tone about spectators and officials.
McClure, Phillips & Company publish the initial titles edited by William Aspenwall Bradley this month. Bret Harte by H W Boynton and Walter Pater by Ferris Greenslet are the first American estimate of Harte and the first connected life of Pater. McClure's volumes available through T B Vogt Columbia Pharmacy.
The Iowa Central Railway offers reduced one way colonist excursion fares to California Oregon Washington Idaho and Montana for tourists. Travel in tourist cars through without change every Wednesday via the Santa Fe System. For details contact agents or address A H Cutts G P & T A Minneapolis Minn November 3.
Nickel Plate offers round trip fares at a third above the base for trips within 150 miles from November 25 and 26 with return by November 30 1990. Three daily through trains to Ft Wayne Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York Boston and New England points with vestibuled sleeping cars. Dining on American Club Plan meals priced from 0.50 to 1.00 and a la carte. Chicago ticket offices listed.
The Frisco Railway announces $15 round trip tickets from St. Louis and Kansas City to Oklahoma Indian Territory Kansas and Texas with October 20 departures at 2: m 85 p m and 10:00 p m from St. Louis plus 7:15 p m and 11:30 p m from Kansas City. Excursion promotes homes in the Southwest and invites women to bid on lots at Haskins tomorrow.
A request to report negligence by the people of the tier boys in coed Lane to the office. The author asserts that without a report the office has no proof of service imperfections.
Rev Jno Cox of Wake Ark describes a twelve year struggle with Yellow Jaundice. He credits Electric Bitters with a complete cure and recommends it for liver kidney troubles stomach disorders and general debility. Sold by Stewart's Pharmacy for 00.
Hereafter my order book will be left at Kaye and Cle grocery. Phone 205. All express and baggage orders I attended to Charles King.
In Chicago 8000 people witnessed Governor Durbin press the button to start two dredges on the East Chicago Ship canal. The canal, 3.5 miles long and 200 feet wide, will handle ships with 21 feet draft and adds seven miles of dockage with 20 more along the Calumet river. Speakers included Senator Mairbanks and Representative Crumpacker.
Marion Indiana reports a farm hand McClure murdered his two sons Anne and years old after luring them with candy. He shot them at Kilgore farm then fled. a mob pursued him and authorities feared violence as he surrendered. McClure had separated from his wife and drove from Blwood to Kilgore.
Berlin reports on the Berlin Zonas experimental electric railway. Dr. W Hf Blemens aboard argues higher speeds are unsafe and impractical. He cites the need for perfectly smooth rails and reliable systems, noting 180 miles per hour as the speed Siemens mentioned.
Superintendent Kuss of Pacific Express opened a Longview office and placed three strike breakers there. Local residents refused to feed or house the non union men and even denied drinking water. The Longview office was closed and Texarkana and Little Rock boards of trade proposals for arbitration were rejected.
Illinois state board of equalization reports total county appraisements up for 1904 with a rise of over one fifth in the state’s assessed property value. Personal property, lands, and town plots show jumps, while the system taxes one fifth of fair cash value.
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