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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1927
Page
7
Radio Digest catalogues tomorrow’s schedules for WBAL WFHH WGR WHO WLIT WOAI WRVA WSBT WTIC and many others with times, orchestras, choirs, dances, and special programs. Local social notes recount visits and recitals by the Robertson and other families in West Chester and nearby towns.
City Hall East Washington Street lists telephones and multiple train numbers. Western and Knoxville branch lines show daily service with local, freight, and passenger trains and varying arrival and departure times.
Remember the Hardscrabble picnic Tuesday August 23. Matt and Joe Wehr families helped thresh at John Seivert home near Harper. Doyle Smith and daughter called on Frank Smith. Jake Fritchen shipped hogs from Keota. D E Brumback of West Chester visited Frank Smith. Seth Carris Jr and John Wehr families spent Sunday at the river. Rev B M Dobbin and son Paul of Eskridge Kansas visiting friends here. They joined James Hennon of West Chester Tuesday. Mrs Virgil Bower and Frances Bowen from Chicago visited A N Bowen home. Jason Kleese of St Louis stayed with John Robertson family. Mrs Wm Sparks of West Plains stayed last week.
The era’s outlook shapes demand for flowers as florists measure the public spirit. People feel optimistic on sunny days and gloomier when clouds gather, influencing how they view material life and seek cheer through blooms.
A brief reflection notes that reporters often anger friends through printed words, calling the print a mysterious and powerful force with differing reactions to spoken versus written statements in the Atchison Globe.
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