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Newspaper
Coronado Compass
Location
Coronado, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1949
Page
2
A playful column promotes J. R. Townsend Co selling used cars and appliances at cut prices with a gas line style teaser. It riffs on taxes and Attacks while boasting the new 1949 Studebaker lineup and radio demonstrations in a humorous, boastful tone.
Coronado students from high school through college age may enter an essay contest on Democracy Works Here sponsored by the Retail Trade Bureau of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce and the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Prizes totaling 270 dollars will be awarded for originality sincerity expression and neatness. Entrants should submit 300 words on the subject to the Democracy Works Here Committee at 499 W Broadway San Diego.
Ens. E. R. Williams USN Mrs Williams and baby Bruce arrived from Clinton Minnesota and reside on C Avenue. Mr and Mrs Charles J Baker and daughter Mona moved from Reno Nevada and now stay at the Colonel Apartments.
Thirteen Coronado firms signed the Better Business Bureau Truth in Advertising Code, announced by Marion Harris, San Diego County bureau president. Firms include Anderson Rightfield Service, Avenue Beauty Shop, Camera Shop, Coronado Cleaners, Coronado Department Store, Free Bros. Market, Island Engineering Co., Coronado Upholstery Shop, George Crawford Plumbing Co., A. V. Lewis Realtor, Nobby Bootery, Town & Country Shop, Village Hardware. Membership not required but encouraged to join. Pamphlet on advertising law and the Code available on request.
The auxiliary of the Henry D. Styer V F W Post reports a death. Surviving are her husband William H McCormick a daughter Mrs Helen M Michaels of Bethesda Maryland and a sister Mrs John Stover of Orss Calif.
The Spanish Eight society of Coronado re activates to host a St Patrick's Ball at Hotel del Coronado on March 18 as a Youth Club benefit. Dance meeting set for 8 pm at the Youth Center to discuss preliminaries with tickets on sale next Tuesday.
Mrs. Mary Watkins Lloyd 38 of 602 First Street Coronado died last Thursday evening at Balboa Park Naval Hospital. Funeral in San Diego at Bonham Brothers Mortuary followed by burial. Wife of Col Russell Lloyd USMC. survived by husband two children Mary Page Lloyd and Russell Lloyd Jr mother Marion S Watkins two sisters T H Lum III and R Porter and brother Harry A Watkins. Contributions to March of Dimes requested in lieu of flowers.
Funeral services for Mrs Lillian Dorothy McCormick of 146 D Avenue will be held at 10 am Friday at the Coronado Mortuary. A native of San Francisco she had lived in Coronado 29 years and was a member of.
A long list of naval personnel and families arrive in Coronado with spouses and children settling in homes on A B C and D avenues. Families include Lt (jg) Sperry Stevenson and Mrs Stevenson with sons Dale and Douglas, Ensign Walls and family, Lt Holley Reed and Mrs Reed, and Mrs P M Hutchinson visiting from Chicago.
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