Local social notes and family announcements mix with light advice
Mrs Wallace Bevis and others attend club events on a July afternoon. Residents from Jefferson County and nearby towns gather at homes, hospitals, and farms for visits, discharges, and family news. Cattle buying trips, new property purchases, and travel to and from Des Moines, Kansas City, and Chicago appear among routine social items and vignettes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Bevis
Estees
Faintet
Pritey
Mesdames J
Setirens
Jénk Dustin
Daviaci
M. B Aié
Sully
Mahlon Williems
Caem
Hedrick
Dan Rodebaughne
Martha Gherrick Grepaty
Mt Pleasant
Kenneth Atkisom
C. A. Ewanson
G. F. Swaeson
A. Swaeson
Harold
Nellie Hoffmier
William Home
Perlee
Nell Garber
Marshalltown
Warner
Roy Price
Omaha
Cleasby
Cora Watkins
Des Moines
Ward
Lloyd Fry
Camp Mills
A. C. Davis
Texas
New London
Grace Hilleary
Fiat Michigan
Vermer Koons
Abe Schwartz
Fred Stansberry
Elsie Fordyce
Kansas City
John Coleman
Richland
Harlie Yost
Hal Scovell
Tom Quinn
Baby
Washington, D. C
Will Grissom
A. H. Miller
Mr. Branneil
Agency
Moline
Minois
Fred Martin
It Might Have Been Worse Optimists Praise War-Time Management
Railroad owners congratulate themselves that it was not Burleson who managed their properties during the war. The passage notes rare optimism about handling heat and pride in wartime leadership, while remarking that refined people are rarely seen perspiring on hot days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burleson
Kansas City Star
WANTED buyers and workers in local ads
A collection of classified notices seeks a buyer for 880 acres at 40 000 with contact 4555 or at fourth and Briggs. Other ads seek two boys over 16 and one man for Fairfield Grove Mitten Co with steady work and phone 394. A piano tuner advertises careful standard pitch and requests orders via Unk Rich Jeweler A J Petrie Ottumwa Iowa. Also a request to buy a 5 room house through the Journal office and a general note from John J Black offering property exchanges near Chippewa Falls Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
4Th
Journal Office
John J. Black
Iowa St
Chippewa — Falls
Wisconsin
For Sale Notices From Early 20th Century Ads
Classified sale items list multiple residences, properties, and household goods. Entries include H. A. Mitchell house at 107 West Grimes Street two blocks from Burlington Depot, Dr. Connor home on South Main, Orlando Flower properties near Presbyterian church, and parcels on West Kirkwood. Also furniture, chairs, sewing machine, and two gasoline stoves with seals for bids by July 28 1919. Includes farms from Iowa Indiana Missouri and a long list of home bargains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main
West Grimes Street
Burlington Depot
Public Square
H. A. Mitchell
C. F. George
Dr. Connor
South Main Street
Orlando Flower
Presbyterian Church
Iowa
Indiana
Missouri
R. W. Lamson & Son
Chicago
West Kirkwood
North 6Th Street
Briggs
Mary J. Calawell
Iowa State Savings Bank
David
East
Burlington Street
Lost leather memorandum book at Journal office
Notice says a leather memorandum book is lost and asks the finder to leave it at the Journal office and claim a reward. The contact or reward amount is not specified beyond the note “receive reward.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Fairfield
Gillespie Bros
Iowa
Journal Office
For Sale Household Goods This Week
Household items offered include burner oil stove kitchen cabinet kitchen utensils sewing machine flat top walnut desk secretary sanitary couch iron bedstead two dressers combination book case fruit jars and iron. A dated listing shows a local sale of assorted furnishings likely at a neighborhood venue this week.
Brunswick Principles In Fine Tire Making
The ad extols the Brunswick name as a guarantee of tire quality since 1845. It argues maker standards determine tire performance, urging buyers to choose Brunswick for superior, value priced tires and wider word of mouth endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
House of Brunswick
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Girte
Awena
Bitte
Ferrell
Harry Barnes
Wyoming
Tom Brown
Bert Morrison
Ben Trow
Frank Berry
Clinton
Mma Young
Mt. Pleasant
Wil Scott
Seattle
Washington
H. E. Young
J. T. Rodgers
Fairfeld
Victor Bates
Alice IN
DOT Land
Clifford Leon Sherman
Altice
Queen of Hearts
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
People’s Column
A.V. Frazey
Illinois
Wilson
Mazola
Cprn Products Refining Coo. BR. O
Brunswick-Balke-Collender CO
N. E. Cor
10Th
Walnut Street
Des Moines, Iowa
T. W. Hannah
Fairfield, Iowa
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