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Newspaper
Washington Washington Democrat
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
4
An advertisement urges readers to bring joy to children during Christmas with affordable gifts. It promotes items for Father and Mother figures, including embroidery scissors, manicure sets, lockets, belts, buckles, barrette pieces, sterling silver items, baking dishes, tea sets, broaches, and spoon trays, highlighting thrift and practical presents.
Fair tonight and increasing cloudiness Saturday with rising temperatures. Marriage licenses issued to David Agachér and Susanna S Kemp. New suits include Albert Malone versus John Gadberry et al for quiet title, with T M Sears representing the plaintiff.
The Tribune notes Chicago will pay the Republican National Convention expenses if held in Chicago and provide an additional $60,000. Indiana statistician Miss Malry Stubbs says she will not quit politics to marry, and intends to keep office until January 1909. Other items mention local events and residents visiting or returning from nearby towns.
Marshal Frank Dale faces self defense plea after a midnight shooting that killed Thomas Welsh. In Bloomfield, Joseph Crockett is found guilty of murder and given a life sentence for the Buck Lewis murder from 1906. A Sid Con ger farm interurban car fatally strikes Oliver Green. In Brownstown Ira Nelson is fined fifty dollars and costs with jail time suspended for illegal alcohol sales.
Mrs. E. D. Clapp reports Dr King s New Discovery saved her son's life after exhausting coughing fits. The ad promotes the cough and lung remedy from J N Jones druggist and offers trial bottles, with hol l sters Rocky Mountain Tea as a baby tonic from Lindeman s Pharmacy.
Paz ointment promises to cure itching bleeding or reclading piles in six to fourteen days or a full refund. Advertisement claims guarantee with 60 cents price.
Wanted laity or gentleman to travel for hardware specialties. Home may be used as headquarters if desired. Weekly salary of 1 092.00 plus expenses. Address J A Alexander 356 Dearborn.
Fragmentary report from Rosadale Mississippi describes a three handed pistol fight near a fish camp twenty miles east of town. E Wilson and another man were injured by a brother participant. sources note the incident may relate to a postoffice robbery. In Washington a senator introduced a resolution on December 6 seeking accountability for the missing $1,000 bills from the Chicago bank transfer on February 20.
The ladies of St Peter's congregation Montgomery invite attendance at a church fair and dinner events to be held from Monday December 30 through January 2 1908 at St Peter's Montgomery.
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