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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1920
Page
8
A housewife-friendly promotion promises $25 worth of records free with each Pathé phonograph sold before December 25. The ad emphasizes a nicely set table with artistic silverware as a key selling point.
Mr and Mrs Alphens Pool returned home Friday from a visit at Weldon Miss Phebe King returned home Thursday from a stay at a Centerville hospital Orr Campbell has been suffering the past week with a carbuncle on his neck Mrs R P Moore of Centerville accompanied her sister in law Mrs J V Smith home Saturday for an over Sunday visit G W Patterson general manager of Lou Dunns telephone systems is here as manager of the engineer work rebuilding and general improvement
Cambria notes list residents and friends visiting relatives over Thanksgiving. Entries mention Angy Ury in Ridgeway Missouri, Margarita Benda in Corydon, A F Rinard visiting Corydon, Wilbur Nepper with his mother in Waterloo, and multiple visits among Woods Greathouse Dyer and other families. Evangelistic meetings planned in Promise City and several local arrivals and family updates accompany medical and birth news.
Ira Jennings of Numa came home yesterday morning from a visit at his aunt Mrs J M Harris. Attorney Leo McKinley of Keokuk returned Monday morning from a visit here with his mother Mrs Clara McKinley and his cousin Jeanette Porter.
Derby community guests travel to and from Chariton Milo Lucas Indianola and Leon for Thanksgiving and other visits. Mrs Adda Sherburne asks locals to settle accounts before January 1 as Effie Hillard wed Will Wright in Derby at the Presbyterian Manse in Leon.
Announcement notes the Surbaugh sale postponed due to family sickness, with a new date to be announced. It lists community events including a Woodmen meeting, a Methodist bake sale, hat sale pricing, and visits from residents, plus a Maple Grove church meeting about buying the building as a community center and a Farm Bureau meeting with officer elections.
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