First Creek Visits Across Families Across Illinois
First Creek residents Mr and Mrs Geo Huber of Arthur Ill. spent a week visiting her father James Thomas. Mr and Mrs Alonzo Pruett and children called on Mort Dobbins and family Sunday. Denver Meek of Bicknell spent the weekend with his grandparents Mr and Mrs Richard Meek. Mr and Mrs Will Pruett spent Sunday with Rufus Laughlin and family. Mr and Mrs John McCarter and daughter visited Sunday at Dan Myers. Mr and Mrs Jacob Summerville spent Monday with friends at Odon. Ruth Toon visited Monday at Joseph Carr's. Mr and Mrs George Huber and children visited Friday night with Miss Dick Dalton of Odon spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs J B Dalton. Marie Toon spent Sunday with Hazel Carr.
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Geo Huber
Arthur Ill
James Thomas
Alonzo Pruett
Mort Dobbins
Denver Meek
Bicknell
Richard Meek
John McCarter
Dan Myers
George Huber
Dick Dalton of
Odon
Mrs J B Dalton
Thanksgiving Customs and Grateful Reflection Across New England
In this reminiscence of early Thanksgiving, the New England practice centered on prayer followed by a feast featuring turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberries, and fruitcake. The piece notes harvest abundance, charity to war-wasted peoples, and the call to bless the Lord for national and personal blessings.
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New England
England
Home Ownership Encouraged With Thrift and Savings Plans
The piece urges home ownership as true prosperity and urges savers to start now. It outlines using War Savings stamps and Treasury Savings certificates to accumulate funds toward a home, noting prices for $5, $100, and $1,000 certificates and their growth prospects by 1924. It also highlights benefits for professionals and the tight path to the first hundred dollars.
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Treasury Savings
Treasury
Typical winter coat and trendy design focus
The piece notes that women with limited clothing budgets need stylish yet affordable coats. It highlights new winter top coats with straight lines, voluminous cuts, large collars that roll up, roomy sleeves, and belting options, presenting a warm, comfortable, smart look.
Feed grain as hog finishing pasture supplementation
Farmers substituting pastures for grain to finish market hogs should feed grain to harden fat and increase weight before fall marketing. Light steady grazing with some grain yields better results than heavy feeding in a shorter finishing period.
Quarterly redeemable at face value after five years
The note explains that quarterly instruments mature in five years and can be redeemed at any time at any post office for face value.
Put family on Safety Lane with War Savings stamps
Two hundred War Savings stamps bought this year will be 1000 in 1924 for office equipment or a new car, or for education and rainy day needs. One hundred stamps become 500, and 50 will be 250. W S S offer safe, convenient investments at over 4 percent.
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W.S. S
Four Practical Money Rules and Antifreeze Insight
Four rules stress saving regular income, investing in government securities, getting full value from purchases, and maintaining possessions. A Kansas expert notes alcohol based antifreeze is cheap, efficient, and adjustable for temperatures from zero to twenty degrees below, with specific water alcohol ratios for different cold levels.
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Treasury
W. A. Buck
Kansas State Agricultural College
Mr. Buck
Attachment for motor car by R A Pullar
The Scientific American describes an attachment for motor vehicles by R A Pullar of Portland Oregon. It provides a windshield mounted mirror to let the driver see following vehicles via an opening at the left upper corner of the vehicle top, covered by a transparent disk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Scientific American
R. A. Pullar
Wilding Street
Portland
Ore
Kansas Motorcar Registration Surges to 188,273
State motorcar registrar C. W. Myers reports 188,273 cars registered in Kansas as of November 1. The statistic reflects one motorcar for every seven residents and comes from the secretary of state’s office.
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Kansas
Ww. Myers
Secretary of States Office
Mr. Myers
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Ber
Barkleys
Barkley
Dep
First Creek
Will Pruett
Rufus Laughlin
Jacob Summerville
Ruth Toon
Joseph Carr
Marie Toon
Hazel Carr
Chiropractic
Chiropractors
Indiana
Jashione
Odon Journal
Odon, Indiana
Sertes
Co-operative Telephone
Flint-Kyle
Co-operative
Owe
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