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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1923
Page
6
Classified notices include two calf buyers, a live-in housework seeker, a car space rental, requests for three rooms with laundry, a part time bookkeeper, blade sharpening service, and multiple rental listings for modern close in apartments and houses. Contact details list phones and street addresses.
A dense list of local wants and offers including strawberries and livestock, a 1915 Ford, a Paige car, graded tarpaulins, a Port Huron grain separator, bed frames and springs, a baby bogey, a 1 ton truck and gravel work, all with contact names and phone numbers.
Howard Holmes of Afton made one business call in the city today. Mrs. Bruce McFee of Kent visited Creston Saturday afternoon. Creston Plumbing & Heating Co. lists address on Elm Street and Two Phones 99. Smoke Crest City's Feeds of all winds Gault Broa is mentioned in the page items.
For sale items include baby chicks at 10 cents each with contact 53-H H Spaulding. Numerous homes offered with down payments, monthly balances, and descriptions from a four room house to a brand new five room bungalow. A 320 acre Idaho Falls area farm is listed for exchange. Brokerage by Hurlburt and Hurlburt, 611 West Adams, plus bond buying and Liberty Bonds trade by Farmers and Merchants.
Used Ford inventory offered for cash or payments including 1918 Ford touring 1920 Ford Roadster with starter demountable rims 1917 touring 1922 roadster starter and rims in good shape Also Ford Speedster and parts bought at half price Open until noon Sunday Lion Brand Work Shoes Brown Shoe Store Can strawberries Consumers Grocery Hartman family from Des Moines visiting Mulica home 406 North Sycamore Street returned home today
The Creston Homestead group will meet Tuesday at Potter Post Hall. After the business session ice cream and cake will be served and a short program given. At the May 31 meeting ten new applications were acted upon. The group urges full attendance Tuesday evening.
Dr R A Swanson chiropractor at Stevern Shoe Store 107 N Maple St lists office and residential phones. Fred House of Lenox spent Sunday visiting Crest City. Cornice Works 109 111 N Elm St advertises gutters roofing sheet metal heating. Crest City cigar and sale of ladies shoes at cost announced by La Forge Bros.
E LAMB announces a closing out sale at 612 North Mulberry Street Creston Iowa on Tuesday June 19 1923 starting 1 30 PM featuring leather couch chiffoniere chest of drawers camode iron beds with springs and mattresses rugs carpet kitchen furniture stove and range dining room furniture dishes tools lawn mower and other items bought new October 1922 McGregor Bros cash terms conducted by John F Russell Sons Auctioneers.
Theresa Burns conducts a summer school in the Irving school building teaching pupils in the primary grades.
Local business notice states all stores will close Thursday afternoon June 21 as urged by the Chamber of Commerce. The Creston area remains busy with residents and visitors, including many locals and travelers from nearby towns. regional activity centers on shopping and events around the Creston market and surrounding counties.
New York report says Jimmy Wilde, Welsh flyweight champion, faces Pancho Villa of the Philippines in a fifteen round title bout at the Polo Grounds. Wilde, 31, brings advantage in height reach weight and strength but trails Villa by ten years in age.
Local notes list visits from multiple residents including Mr and Mrs Ray Cook and son of St Joseph Missouri and others visiting relatives in the city. People named include C A Rupert Clearfield Mrs Paul Wickham Afton Will Burroughs Lyman Nicely Grace White Diagonal Ethel Coulter Corning Mable McLester William Jones Bedford Anna Boyd Sanford Johns Bengar and Clarence Williams with various errands and social visits noted.
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