Local Holiday Greetings and Social News from Crouse-Tex Era
Community notices describe low prices on guaranteed five year hot water bottles from Crouse-Tex Drug Co. and list New Year’s visits and gatherings among local families including the Miley, Sargent, Roberts, Peterson, Gustafson, Ner, and Bonne households visiting from nearby towns such as Hoxie Grand Island York and Des Moines with multiple family reunions and travel back home after holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crouse- Tex Drug Cox
Baby pants food bottles found in Creuse Tex Drug
A readable fragment notes baby pants food bottles located at a drug department in Creuse Tex. The item hints at a distribution or stock listing in a local store setting. Further specifics on brands quantities or dates are not provided in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creuse-Tex Drug
Steve Owen retires to front office with Giants
Former Giants tackle and field director Steve Owen, who joined the team in 1926, switches to a front office role after a long career as player and coach. The Touchdown Club of New York honors Pudge Heffelfinger for football contributions, while PCC surveys show one platoon football reduced injuries and costs. Football attendance rises to about 12.5 million in 1953.
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Steve Owen
New York ‘Football Giants
Mobile
Ala
Owen
Giants
Touchdown Club of
New York
W. W
Pudge) Heffelfinger
Heffelfinger
Yale
Eh Wait Your Turn By Ong Freeman Lothrop
A literary note by Ong Freeman Lothrop titled Eh Wait Your Turn explores social conduct and reader expectations in serialized fiction. The piece discusses pacing, anticipation, and the authorial pace that shapes audience engagement in 19th century journalism.
Stubborn Henry's gas stop ends with comic heist plan
Bess Wilkins fears long marriage to cranky Henry and plans a jolt to his stubborn pride. At a gas station, Henry's impatient demand leads to a masked holdup, but Bess freezes the scene by stealing the wallet money and the crooks flee. Henry, relieved yet broke, learns a lesson on patience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bess
Henry
Fall Winter Fashion Book Seeks Mail-In Patterns
No 2578 and No 2994 patterns are offered in multiple sizes with yardage details and plain costs. Send 30 cents per pattern including name address style number and size to Audrey Lane Bureau Box 369 Madison Square Station New York 10 New York. The book promises many other styles and a 25 cent extra fee.
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Audrey Lane
Madison Square Station
New York
N.yy
How to conquer daily worries with action
Dale Carnegie details Bill Lyle’s late night boat frame setback at 6138 Washington Avenue Beton Beige Louisiana. Faced with a plywood fit problem he replaces worry with action, analyzing facts and choosing a course to modify the framework and finish the boat.
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Watta B. Lyle
JIR
Washington Avenue
Beton Beige
Louisiana
Bill Lyle
Social Calendar and Legion Meet in Mid-January
Maple Leaf Club meets Thursday afternoon January 14 at Mrs. Joe Schott’s home for an extension lesson. American Legion Auxiliary gathers Friday January 15 at 2 15 p m with sewing after the business meeting.
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Maple Leaf Club
Joe Schott
American Legion Auxiliary
Robert Grossnick
Christmas Dinner Guests and Obituary Notices
Christmas dinner guests included Signe Van Doren Diana of Omaha Anne Bergman Burdette Sandin Holdrege and the Albert Anderson family. Mrs Harry Musselman learned of her brother J W Bellmore's death at his Dix Nebraska home. He was 81 and had long Polk County ties before moving to Kimball County. Have your films developed at Crouse Tex Drug Co with fresh films and flash bulbs. Christmas Eve hosts Herman Jones Earl and the families Orville Jones Franklin and Myron Jones were guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph Sandin
Signe van Doren
Diana
Omaha
Anne Bergman
Burdette Sandin
Holdrege
Albert Anderson
Harry Musselman
J. W. Bellmore
Dix
Nebraska
Polk County
Kimball County
Crouse-Tex Drug Co
Handel
Herman Jones
Earl
Orville Jones
Franklin
Myron Jones
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Earl’ Miley
Earl Miley
Hoxie
Harvey Rodgers
Sunley
Kansas
Treleves
Martin Roberts
St. and
Raymond Peterson
Max Peterson
Lincoln
Roger Gustafson
Polk
York
Wilbur ‘Sargent
Grand Island
Chas
Sargent
Masselman
Marvin Ner
John Ner
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Ivan Rer
Des Moines
L. L. Iler
E. W. Bonne
OF the
Lone Star Store
Elmer Rudeen
Stanley Braithwait
Campbells Tomato Soup
Blackbird
Drg
Jar
Campbells Meat
van Camp
Texas
Bonners
Cornhusker
Oleo
Prunes
Anderson Mercantile
Your Blackbird
By Ong Freeman Lothrop
Wilkins
Alice
Mike
Harry
Eddie
SY Audrey Lane
Dale Carnegie
Ruthor
Star
Carnegie
Verneta Ferris
Kearney State Teachers College
W. E. Ferris
Chevy Chase
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