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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
9
A restaurant market advert promotes Saturday service with a wide range of groceries and prepared foods. It highlights jars of olives, smoked nuts, dried fruits, cereals, coffee, tea, baking powder, canned tomatoes, cheeses, walnuts, pickles, Jell O, desserts, and fresh meats. The notice invites shoppers to visit for a fresh daily candy display and seasonal berries and pies.
Iowa City has grown from a university town to a first class city with 15 286 residents and university enrollment surpassing 8 000 from 1925 to 1926. The city hosts 10 factories employing 322 people and a strong college community with lectures plays and campus events shaping town life. The university’s lands buildings and equipment are valued near 10 million dollars and a new medical plant with hospital is under construction valued at about 4.59 million.
The account notes Rockefeller Foundation support for a memorial union and a $440000 field house funded by athletic receipts. It highlights 3600 homes with 203 built last year, 14 active churches, 10 schools, two newspapers, 14 interurban trains, 55 miles of pavement, and a city valuation of 10133916. Iowa City founded 1839 and later became state capital before Des Moines.
Carl J. Deutsch, of a Japanese fan company, returns from the Far East and notes that decorated fans once widely used to advertise breweries have fallen nearly to nothing since the Volstead Act. Fans were popular for cooling ladies in beer gardens, but demand collapsed with prohibition.
Robert Bailey of Diagonal was in Creston on Thursday as a business visitor.
Mr and Mrs Frank Ramsbot tom of Orient spent Thursday here visiting and doing some shopping.
Fred W. Doge offers bulk and pack items including sugar butter oleo coffee flour and canned goods with prices in cents and dollars. The ad notes cash paid for eggs with free delivery and a phone contact at 113 E Montgomer St. and 751 for orders.
Paris, Dec 18. An American night cabaret introduces an American bar as a new feature for visiting tourists. Hosts say the bar is abused by students and collegians with limited funds who linger at the bar then dance and mingle, driving up costs.
Obituary notice for O W Jared from the Burlington Mechanical Department Association. Pays tribute to his duty and faith, offers comfort to his widow and children, and asks loved ones to trust in God while resting his memory in the Resurrection. Signed by committee members B J Schorr Joe Von Gartzer and G L Lewis.
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