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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1908
Page
3
At the I. BE Snider sale Friday Austin Sutherland sold a sucking colt for 100 dollars and a bull calf for 45 dollars. Cows brought 35 to 51.50 dollars. The total sale amount was 2,244.72 dollars. Leonard Bertsch, employed at the Vienna bakery, traveled to Sigourney Saturday evening for a bakery position.
Miss Della Allen of Denver Colorado arrives Friday night from Burlington to visit the Godfrey household on East Washington street with other relatives in attendance.
Mrs Nora Bickford Wright of Valeria Iowa visits her parents Mr and Mrs C D Bickford. Margaret Dicken spent Sunday at the Brockway home at Letts returning last evening.
Fox and Dewey printing page lists visits and trips from Wayland to Davenport, Keota, Muscatine, Brighton, Albia, and other towns. It chronicles multiple personal visits, brief travels, and social calls, plus a device ad for Frey’s photo studio and a feature on Don Luis Terrazas’ vast Mexican ranch via Tit-Bits.
Burlington Iowa weather report notes haze last week not caused by northern forest fires. Des Moines observer and Dr Geo Chappel of the weather bureau attribute the smoky smell to natural seasonal conditions common this time of year. Reports from Chicago and Dubuque mention smoke from northern burnings.
The W C T U will meet Thursday afternoon at 2 30 o clock at the home of Mrs Isaiah Taylor on South Marion avenue.
An advertisement urges prompt use of Foley's Kidney Remedy for suspected kidney issues to prevent Bright's disease or diabetes and warns against delay, citing Lemmon's Pharmacy as the source.
Lemmon's Pharmacy advertises Foley's Honey and Tar as providing immediate relief to asthma sufferers in severe stages and claims it can effect a cure when taken in time.
Mrs Hanlon who has visited in the city for a few days with her son L. D. Hanlon returned to her home at Sigourney Saturday evening.
Mrs G W Shaw and Miss Eliza Shaw of Geneseo Illinois passed through Davenport yesterday en route to Washington Iowa to visit relatives. Davenport Times notes Sept 20 that Father Walsh Everett Bailey and Misses Edna Dempsey and Veronica Frits spent yesterday at Pleasant Plain where a class of twenty six took first communion at the Pleasant Plain Catholic church. Father Hogan of Fairfield conducted services at St James church in this city.
Wayne Critz, employed in Knoxville, spent Sunday at home and was returning this morning.
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