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Local notes on buildings, Thanksgiving events, and shop ads
Harold Foltz buys the Oliver Wadkins building near the post office. Ed Wadkins plans to tear it down for a First State Bank site. Thanksgiving dinners at the gym bring patoka and centralia visitors. Ads tout face creams 5 cents a jar, fur prices, lard cans, dress prints at 15 cents, and various local residents visiting or dining.
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Harold Foltz
Oliver Wadkins
Ed Wadkins
First State Bank
Francis Belcher
Teachers College
Carbonde
Nursday
Lowell Belcher
Altoms
W. W. Richeson
Patoka
Ill
Jeff Smith
Centalia
X. B. Holland
Max
Centralia
George Ballance
Les Ballance
J. W. Dellassus
St. Elmo
Delassus
Lloyd Pierce
Carlinville
Anna Davidson
Lovie
Frank Knight
Alton
W. Richeson
E. M. Elifritz
Alice Majonnier
Mid West Co
P. J. Majonnier
Tillies Confectionery
A. W. Thalman
Sarah Thalman
A. A. Griffin
F. J. Rogier
Decatur
Julia Rogier
Altons
June Hickey
Salem
Don Wilson