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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1917
Page
5
A reader notices a catalog style item list describing 2-thumb and 1-thumb mittens and gloves with knit wrists. Prices show per dozen pairs ranging from 1.25 to 1.65 dollars. A note mentions Husking mittens with double faced construction and associated pegs hooks and wristbands for boys.
Winter hardware items include goal pails of 17 and 18 inches fire shovels stove boards oil stoves stove pipe elbows dampers stove pipe wire stove bolts lanterns oil cans roaster. Mazda electric light bulbs are highlighted as special value despite low prices.
Notices and short items report various happenings from public life and society. Senator Voorhees oversees Oklahoma business. a Fort Collins bootlegger gets a year in jail. YMCA reports Iowa soldiers writing home and sending funds. Temperatures and weather scenes, pensions for war widows rise under new act with large annual impact.
ZING LMR and ZINGLER LAWYERS based in Anita Iowa in the Anita Bank Building offer collections and probate services. Office hours run from 9:00 a m to 12:00 p m daily and contact number is 256.
Standard Oil Company notes procedures to keep orders ready. Fred B. Dennis, Manager, emphasizes having the plan on hand if weather later blocks delivery.
City Meat Market advertises a beef roast at twenty cents per pound with promotional notice from publisher Robert Cryer in the 32-Lf item.
Mrs Eva Chester travels to Griswold for weeks. Briardale Olemargarine sold under pure food law. North Chestnut Street residence, formerly Jas B Lewis home, fitted as Home for Old Women with Mabel Spence as Superintendent assisted by Janey and Merle Brown. Godfrey Miller notes Swiss newspaper on coal shortage halting schools churches and rail traffic with stage transport revived.
The Anita Record lists Miss Mary Crow and Mrs Bessie Lowell as visitors, many Cass county residents at Randolph and Omaha, and a crowded auction night with a big diamond prize. It mentions abundant corn, local repairs, and household items plus subscription renewals extending to 1910.
Ed Carey still has a supply of good watermelons on hand as weather shows a hopeful trend after a recent blizzard and flood. The paper notes odd items like a bank advertisement about war horror and safe deposit delivery, plus local product pitches and a margarine brand.
Fragments record J G B Timmons in the city on Friday while Mrs Hl bP Ziegler visited Des Moines. Ward Barker and John Gant spent last week in Anita AJR Cochran drawn for army service is exempted by President Wilson. Briardale Cleomargerine taxes the place of good country butter. Sold by Adtf.
Notice states the firm Val Weigand & Son dissolves with Otto Weigand retiring. Val Weigand will conduct the business, all firm accounts owed to Val Weigand & Son to be paid to Val, and all accounts against the firm to be paid by Val. Dated Anita Iowa October 45 11. Mrs Bert Beebe and Vernon visited Wiota last week with Pa and Ma Vernon.
We suggest farmers lay in a supply of Gasoline and Kerosene while weather and road conditions are favorable for prompt delivery. Orders placed now will be filed promptly and ready if weather changes. See Fred B. Dennis or phone No. 203 for attention. Mrs. Bessie Parkinson of Massena spent a few days in Anita with the Weston family during F B Parkinson's business trip to Omaha.
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