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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1902
Page
2
In Brighton Iowa the home of Dr G W Dosh was entered at three in the morning through a back window. Mrs Dosh awoke to a bareheaded intruder who fled, leaving the doctor’s missing pants and a hypodermic case behind. Sheriff Teeter was notified.
Co H and C M Keck of Citizens National bank Washington and 8 E Lehnen of Cedar Rapids National Bank bought 57 shares, gaining a controlling stake in Farmers Savings Bank of Kalona from the Myers heirs and Manatts. Lehnen becomes cashier. S B Manatt remains briefly as cashier until a successor is settled. Mannatt plans unclear, stays through spring. Mrs Dorothy Moore visits sister Mrs Gee Johnson and departs for LaHarpe.
Charles Jones died last night at 11 30 after a three week illness with erysipelas. Born November 26 1869 in the county, he was 22 years 117 months and 4 days old. He married Maud Hays February 15 1880. Survived by his wife and two young sons. Funeral at ten Saturday from his residence, interment in Elm Grove cemetery.
A Davis Kentucky druggist touts Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds as the fastest selling article in his six years of sales. He claims it cures and has saved sufferers from throat and lung diseases when doctors failed. Trial bottles are free with guaranteed satisfaction or refund. Regular sizes 50 cents and 1.
Miss Jessie Sage will give an informal musicale Friday evening at her home on East Third Street. W. A. Turner left yesterday afternoon for Chicago.
Last evening closed the Muscatine District fall session in this city after two days of papers on prayer meetings pastoral visiting and duties. Ministers return home noting a successful conference. President John W Hancher spoke on The real key to a large audience.
The Sage boys swapped their old mules for a promised workhorse from traveling traders. The horse proved balky and unable to haul a load, prompting a pursuit and a forced swap back. The incident ends with a cautionary moral about trusting traveling salesmen. Lucy Wade and Reba Wade return to Oklahoma City after visiting Grandma Yearick on East Main Street.
A Chicago Record Herald excerpt recounts Mme Janauschek’s alleged remark that she would open her season in Syracuse or not at all. The piece notes Syracuse’s reaction, plus a sharp anecdote about a tactless reporter and a separate meditation on historians.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt presents a dialogue between a soulful young person and an old poet. The youth asks about thoughts that cannot be uttered while the poet admits to digging for a rhyme that cannot be printed.
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