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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1919
Page
3
Local notes report Grant defeated Anita 1 to 0 at Grant in a Sunday baseball game. Other items include Labor Day celebration talk in Berea, weather hot winds affecting crops, and various hometown notices on residents and travel.
Glen B. Campbell, son of former Anita residents now in Des Moines, will take the advertising manager post for the Soil Improvement Committee in late July. He studied farming in Iowa and held publicity roles at Connecticut and New England Farms, with wartime artillery service. He’ll base at the Baltimore office while serving the committee’s territory.
The Shelby County Fair opens Sunday with six harness races August 18 to 20 and a grand stand program. Dutton's society horses exhibit daily. Admission remains 25c Sunday, 35c other days. A Great Aeroplane Battle in the Clouds, daylight fireworks, and military salutes are planned. A Home Coming for soldier boys is celebrated August 21 with community attendance and flying machines featured.
Mrs Bohning broke a wrist after a fall with Dr Campbell attending. The Trumbull family returned from Marshalltown after a two week visit with Mrs Dieseing. Tom Franklin recovered a Dodge crank listed in the RECORD. Various residents visit Anita or travel, including Mrs Hall from Oklahoma and Mrs Lewis from Des Moines. Chiropractics student Bessie Henry prepares at Dr Sheeler’s Davenport school. Westlake visits via car from a former Anita resident. Farmers Insurance rep Hook and wife stay with Pa and Ma Hook and Vera. Johnson family in town due to Mrs Andrew Johnson’s illness. Mrs Worthing improves after an operation with nurse Waldorf. Workman family returns from Hastings. Lake Okoboji tripers depart for a fishing season.
A Gazette entry urges towns to pair persistent advertising with delivering goods. It warns against waiting for others to act and stresses that good advertising must be backed by real offerings, or trade will not come.
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