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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1916
Page
4
The store advertises high grade home gifts with mammoth assortments in department displays. Special Christmas selections highlight practical and beautiful items, urging shoppers to choose a real present she will appreciate daily.
Miss Gertrude Brown and Lottie Nemington attended an operetta in Bedford Friday evening. Kathryn Brown visited relatives in St Joseph Saturday and Sunday. Minnie and Crystal Everhart spent the weekend with relatives in Pickering. A new baby boy arrived Sunday for Mr and Mrs Faye Glass. Mrs Amos McMaster of Idaho is visiting her parents W C Ingram. Elizabeth Sobbing of Mary visited her mother J D Sobbing over Sunday. A bar in the stockyards caused loss from bundled hay and corn. W I Moorhead and A L Mutti attended a Toledo Christmas party hosted by Overland Auto Co. James Ulmer sustained a severe wound to the right eye while skating on Sunday after a club struck him.
A narrator recalls a chaotic holiday tale from Rockpile N3 about two children Hester and Lester, aged 5 and 7, and a mistaken St Claus impersonation. The memory covers deceit, a homemade tree, gifts hidden in a laundry bag, a chimney escape, and the family’s disbelief at a visiting figure.
From Bedford, 42 attendees spent $1,309.85 for the grand opera The Bo themian Girl at Clarinda Thursday evening. Among names listed are Mr and Mrs Arthur Bishop Mrs A Barger Moyd Jackson France Dale Ola Barger Elsie Burrell Carolyn Hale Rex Mood R E Bradley Dr Anna Anderson of Sterling Kan. They visited Blanchard for a few days.
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