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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1920
Page
8
A city welfare notice invites clothing and furniture donations and lists jail hospital street and house to house work by Major and Mrs Sneath at 101% N Marion Ave Phone 417 Green. Also notes a seed store ad and says Mrs L E Nagley is in Excel Springs for a vacation.
Local ad lists day and night taxi and baggage service with contact numbers for Fox and Dewey shoes and Skipton taxi service plus a phone listing for immediate calls.
A collage of social notes shopping trips and road ads lists residents visiting Davenport Keota and Colum bus Junctions. Businesses trumpet Hermoline motor oil tire sales Aladdin lamp supplies and a September sale at GO GAS station with several local households planning trips and sales events.
Brighton Sept 15 Tom Whisler aged about 35 and home in Brighton was accidentally killed yesterday afternoon between 3 and 4 while working with his brother D W Whisler at Ethel Mo He worked for the Santa Fe railway and either lost his footing or was knocked from a ditching machine A passing train did not run over him and his neck was broken His body was brought to Brighton this morning He leaves wife Carrie Baumgartner and son Ralph and five brothers and three sisters all of Brighton Funeral set for 2 30 tomorrow Burial in Brighton cemetery
Gasper Scalzo of Chicago becomes assistant to BE. V. Simons at the Frank L. Wilson shoe store. The item lists ads and notices including used Columbia Phonograph sales on monthly payments and local visits by residents such as Mrs. Fred Taylor of Lewistown and Miss Alice Rownd.
A marriage license was issued Tuesday to Ira EB Huber and D Mabel Freel of Wellman. Bertha Hay becomes the new chorister at the Presbyterian church replacing Wanda Neiswanger who will soon depart for Champaign Illinois to attend school.
Iowa coal miners after three days of session adjourned without ratifying the two year contract agreed on Tuesday. The wage deal offered a 26 percent increase plus working condition details, but miners demand added pay of 10 cents per ton in subdistricts two and three and 33 1 3 cents per ton in subdistricts one and four.
The cherry tree story traces from Kerasoun in Asia Minor via Lucullus who brought shoots home after a victorious campaign. The name evolved through Karass to Cerise and finally to the English word cherry, reflecting linguistic shifts over time.
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