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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1925
Page
6
Numerous items offered for sale including a residence at 309 North Sycamore Street and various livestock and goods. Listings mention horses, bulls, roosters, mules, incubators, a chick brooder, trunks, wagons and farm equipment with contact details for each seller.
A flood of classified ads seeks agents and salesmen for items from tools to furniture to food products. Listings include secondhand anvils and furniture, chocolate bars, oils, rose bushes, Nonpulout shirts, rawleigh health goods, and large Illinois dealer opportunities with commissions and regional duties.
A jumble of rental notices, real estate offerings, shop ads, theater promotions and commission opportunities. Included are room and house rentals, garage space, office rooms, building lots, shoe sales, movie auditions, magazine ads, auto inventory sales and a gas mileage claim from Philis Manufacturing in St Louis.
An ad fragment from The AU Cash Grocer promotes brand comparison and value. It lists items with prices such as 68c, 26c, 44c, 20c, and 25c, and mentions a $6.75 total alongside small cent amounts, emphasizing price and quality concerns.
Magnus Johnson, defeated farmer labor senator, begins formal action to contest the Minnesota senate seat of Senator elect Thomas D Schall on grounds of corrupt practices act violations. Preliminary petitions will be filed with the secretary of the United States Senate and served on Schall in Washington by early next week.
Leonard Seppalla, famed dog team driver, carries 300 600 units of diphtheria antitoxin from Kaltag to Nome to help fight a local outbreak. He rides behind a picket team over 300 miles of harsh Alaskan trails to set a new record for dog team travel.
Do you want to exchange for a high class income property. Send complete farm description to Grant Shaw in Kansas City Missouri. Pab y chicks offered COD Leg horns 14c each, Bars Reds Minor As Orpingtons 16c, Mixed 1c, postpaid 100 percent live delivery. Mountain Grove Missouri.
Anchorage reports Leonard Sepalla and a two man team anticipated to reach Nome with diphtheria antitoxin. The vessel carrying the antidote halted at sea near the Bering Strait when the latest report arrived.
Shenandoah January 31 a quarrel over medicinal water led Jacob Krey a 67 year old farmer to allegedly try to kill his wife and their 12 year old daughter Mildred with a knife. The wife was taken to the hospital with a fractured arm and facial cuts while Mildred was harmed in the incident. Krey later attempted suicide and is held by police.
London dispatch reports Greece to protest to Angora over the expulsion of the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek church from Turkey. Athens plans to refer the matter to The Hague Permanent Court of International Justice after pledges at Lausanne were allegedly broken.
During warm weather households can reduce cleaning with oilcloth luncheon sets that wipe clean with a damp cloth and never require laundering.
A professional cleaner asserts that water used to boil potatoes can best clean and restore a silk frock. The method relies on starches and minerals leached into the water to help lift dirt from delicate fabric.
Advice for travelers to carry a small borax bottle to soften water before applying to the face or hands. Using hard or unfamiliar water can irritate skin, so a simple borax mix helps maintain skin comfort on the road.
A home cook suggests grinding oats through a meat grinder before using them in cookies to boost flavor and texture. The tip emphasizes pulverized oats blending into dough for richer results.
A brief instruction advises placing laundry marks in an inconspicuous spot yet easy to locate. It emphasizes that marks should identify ownership without drawing attention. The guidance targets household care and garment tracking in routine laundry.
Lost red rubber overshoe on standpipe road. Phone 21R151. Stray red white faced cow from my place three miles northwest of Afton. Notify F A Webb at 212J.
After ironing clothes, hang them to air until completely dry. Mrs. M. O. Leach visited friends in Prescott this morning. William Weber returned to Kent after a short visit. Wm. M. Edens left for Des Moines to spend the weekend. Miss Elizabeth Starry of Cedar Rapids arrived to visit relatives near Creston. Mrs. John Rundlett and Miss Alice Howarter of Cromwell spent Friday shopping and visiting.
Stephen Clow editor of Broadway Brevities received six years and one day in the Atlanta penitentiary for using the mails to defraud and conspiracy. He was fined $6,000 and released on bail pending appeal. Albert Brown received two years and the Brevities Corp. $11,000 in fines.
Des Moines reports Herbert Hough moves to Waterloo to defend injunction against Black Hawk county tuberculosis testing plan. Cattle owners resist designating Black Hawk as an accredited area citing low signed petitions. State Agriculture says 75 percent have signed. Thornburg notes first legal challenge and urges correction by the legislature.
The American Medical Association announced successful results from Dochez serum in scarlet fever cases, including severe ones. The serum, developed by Dr. Phonze R. Dochez, isolated the scarlet fever organism and was used in Hartford dispatches.
Air Mail Pilot R. G. Page departed Omaha at 5 48 a m and reached Chicago at 8 35 a m covering 426 miles in 4 hours 47 minutes. He maintained an average speed of 153 mph despite a stop at Iowa City to drop wine mail.
Topeka Kansas January 31 Jonathan M Davis former governor of Kansas pleaded not guilty to charges of soliciting a bribe when arraigned on a joint warrant with Carl J Peterson former bank commissioner. Davis was released on a $1000 bond for a preliminary hearing February 6.
In Friday's AD VERPRISER an error misdated a post nuptial shower. The Williams event at the William E Ward home occurred Thursday night, not Friday. Thirty five people attended the affair.
James Walsh of Adams county was a business caller in Crest on Friday afternoon. John Bredah of Orient attended to business interests Friday afternoon. F M Webb of Cromwell spent Friday evening here on business. Ralph Coen departed Friday for Des Moines to visit friends for a few days.
Dr RK A Swanson operates a chiropractic office over Hester's Shoe Store at 107 N Maple Street. Phone lines listed for office and residence include Phons office 663 and residence 937.
A compiled results list shows various college, high school, and academy basketball scores. Notable results include Des Moines Catholics 13 over Council staffs 9, Coe 28 over Hamline 20, Grinnell 9 over Iowa City 31, and Washington boys 35 over Kalona 12 with other region matchups across Iowa and nearby institutions.
Miss Bernice Kurtz of Prescot arrives this afternoon and will visit Sunday at the Dale Ellis home in Ork Greet. Miss Mary Brown of Omahe arrives in Creston to visit her sister Mrs. M. Brown at 311 North Sumner. Mr and Mrs Bernard Fry leave for Oskaloosa for the weekend. Mrs Mildred Laughead returns to Shan non City after visiting C. C. heading home, 305 North Birch. Mrs Fred Cramer of Corning returns home after visiting Mrs Otto Krueger, 507 North Poplar. Rev David Ferguson of Maquoketa officiates at Mrs C. A. Allen funeral, returns home. Mrs FE Green of Omaha arrives in Creston to spend a week with her brother I. Green, 622 North Maple. Mrs C. R. Walker leaves for Davis City to visit her parents, Mr and Mrs J. W. Rilea. Mrs J. W. Milnes leaves for Lorimer to visit daughter Catherine, an instructor there. Mr and Mrs Walter Koerner move from an apartment to a new residence at Elm and Seneca. Mrs Ella Allen and grandson Alien Stream go to Omaha to visit Lyle Stream ill at Dr. Walker’s home.
L A Porter arrived home from Council Bluffs after attending the funeral of Mrs Porter’s mother Mrs P A Johnson. Miss Marie Osher and Miss Eleanore Jones, teachers from Wales, visited Miss Oshel’s parents at 507 South Pye Street. Galen Kilburn, Drake University freshman, returned to Crestyn to see his parents at 517 New York Avenue. his father was injured five weeks earlier in a fall from a tree while erecting a radio aerial and is still recovering.
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