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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1923
Page
8
Miss Mollie Quinn leaves for St. Louis after visiting sister Mrs. O. P. Hicks. The program promises good pictures and an interesting address by Rev. Geo. C. Conrad at the Baptist church this evening.
Local items report visits to Ottumwa Keota and Richland. Travel mentions include J. E. Myall, Geo. W. Stewart, Winfield Smouse, Miss Nellie Dodder, and the Moriarty and Wilkinson families visiting Ottumwa and Des Moines. Advertisements promote oil stores, cigars at Lemmon’s Pharmacy, and Hog Worm Capsules. The Baptist lecture and several social visits are noted along with upcoming sales and ice cream at Lemmon’s Pharmacy.
A lonely bachelor in a Washington Court apartment befriends a neighboring woman across the court. Richard Webster and Dora May exchange glances and flowers through window shadows. They meet by chance when mutual acquaintances help introduce them, leading to a hopeful romance.
Ottumwa Iowa August 8 1848 marks seventy fifth anniversary of the Ottumwa Courier first published in a frame shack on East Main street. Founder R H Warden printed from a hand press drawing settlers to Ottumwa as the paper grew to today’s modern plant. A 216 page Diamond Jubilee Edition was issued last Saturday detailing the paper and city’s progress.
Ten thousand flowering plants and ferns of various kinds are used annually to decorate the public rooms on one of the big transatlantic liners.
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