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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1925
Page
6
Readable items include Rio Coffee cereal blend 30¢ per pound Fresh Dates two pounds for seven 2a Xmas Candy 2 lb for 38 cents Very Large Grapefruit 10¢ Large toilet tissue roll 5¢ to 10¢ Candy Nuts and assorted goods listed with varied prices The text resembles a 19th or early 20th century grocery ad or price sheet with fragmented notation and no clear date or store name.
New York reports on art sales driven by humor and tragedy among the social elite. Achillito Chiesa’s credit fueled collection growth until banker committees forced sales, with the Italian government aiding a transfer of works to American galleries. Death and inheritance trigger many such dispersals.
Local ad announces cash payments for eggs with free delivery by calling 113 E Montg Street or phone 751 for orders.
C K G Billings plans a formal sale of select modern masterpieces after relocating to California. The event features hushed rooms, restrained bidding, and notable prices such as a Staffordshire tray at 1800 dollars and a suit of armor at 18400 dollars.
Rabbi Stephen S Wise clarifies that Jews should not embrace Christian dogma despite acknowledging Jesus as a moral Jew and teacher. He distinguishes Jesus human teaching from Christian doctrine and states no Jew contemplates accepting Christian tenets.
Secretary Hoover backs a rubber saving program with National Rubber association and National Automobile Chamber of Commerce to cut rubber consumption by 25 percent. He urges longer tire life, careful use, repaired tires and reclaiming old rubber to keep cars on the road.
Centerville Iowa markets itself as a regional hub with strong industry and utilities. The city hosts the Hercules stump puller factory the gypsum industry the Burlington division offices and a large utilities project serving 60 southern Iowa towns. It features a 30 acre park a large water works system a sewage network an electric plant and nearby coal resources.
Eugene Geis will arrive home from Omaha this evening to spend the holiday season with his parents Mr and Mrs E N Geis of 710 South Cherry Street. Miss Lucile Ohlschlager of Hammond Ind will return home Tuesday after a week with her sister Mrs W Hixenbaugh and Mr Hixenbaugh of 321 South Walnut Street. Mrs Hixenbaugh will accompany her sister home and spend Christmas with their mother Mrs Frank Ohlschlager.
In Tallahassee on Dec 21 a report to the legislature describes plans to place a tablet at the southwest corner of the 1824 land grant to General Lafayette. The marker would sit at the location near the present monument just outside the city.
Historical records show that on December 28 1824 Congress ordered a $200 payment to General Lafayette and a land grant from unappropriated U S lands The Lafayette heirs chose a section in northern Florida near Tallahassee for a monument tablet Three tablets would mark the meridian while Lake Lafayette remains a natural monument linking to the legacy of the famed French soldier
Marty Houghton returns home to spend the holidays after guiding a dancing class in Osceola. Mrs Charles Rant and her daughter of Afton visited to handle business and do some shopping.
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