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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1928
Page
6
E P Dusenberry and Lou Dusenberry visit Muscatine as school opens. Advertises Parker fountain pens for students insisting they are essential school gear. Recommends toothpaste as teeth insurance. Weather: mostly cloudy with showers tonight and Tuesday. Hog top at 12.65 dollars.
Mrs W W Wilson and her sister in law Miss Nell Wilson leave for Petosky Michigan to visit. I will sell a Ford touring automobile Tuesday August 24th at 1 p m in front of the court house. Charles M Denison County Sheriff.
Boosters plan a Thursday excursion to Knoxville for the annual meeting and picnic of the Number Two Iowa Short Line Rotary Association. Legion Drum Corps in full regalia, with a county delegation, stopping at Sigourney and Oskaloosa. Meet at City Hall 8 a.m. caravan, reach Knoxville by noon. program starts 1 p.m. Notify Tucker and Eichert Garage at 230 by Wednesday noon.
Farmers are invited to Cedar Rapids Wednesday for the Hoover conference. H E Spangler asks county farmers to attend and representatives will be chosen to meet Mr Hoover. A meeting with Iowa editors is also planned with many attendees expected from across the state.
Enna Jettick Health Shoes owner Roy W. Lincoln of Moscow Iowa and Mabel N. Wiese of Atalissa Iowa obtained a marriage license here Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dubois and children return to Palmyra Missouri after a several week visit with T. B. Crone. Mrs Crone accompanies them for another several weeks. W Fitch of Cedar Rapids visits Graff family. Frank Frazier leaves for Excelsior Springs for a several week vacation. Norwood Jones of Chicago arrives to visit J A Jones for a week. Prudence Johns travels from Crawfordsville to Washington to shop. Florence Carr resumes work at the Washington Loan and Trust after a two week vacation, returning with Leona Allen from Chicago after a short visit.
An amusement feature offered at most venues lists admission prices of 10 cents and 25 cents. The display notes the attraction is common in many locations, with prices highlighted for visitors.
Waverley Station in Edinburgh covers 20 acres and handles over 1000 trains daily. Its largest platform stretches nearly one mile in length.
A machine to reduce noise in steel riveting is said to have been devised but the inventor’s name is not provided. The item frames this as a noteworthy, possibly ceremonial, technological development without identifying the creator.
Long list of residents and visitors traveling to and from Washington and nearby towns. Names include Mrs. Earl Stroud Eldon. Adelaide Parrott Muscatine. Gladys Faris Keota. Ferne Duncan Winfield. Mrs. Philip J. Crail Camp Dodge. Helen Wood University of Iowa. Mrs. Blanche Grecian Idaho Falls. Mrs. A. E. Warner Fort Madison. Beesie Smith Bloomfield. Anna and Perry Beal Monmouth. Dr. and Mrs. David Shaffer Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Miller Los Angeles. L. D. Robinson and Will Wilson Washington area visits. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Behrens Abilene. Jim Bambrick at American Railway Express. Agnes Wheelan Keithsburg and Des Moines trips. Mrs. J. W. Smith St Louis visiting local homes.
Durand Ross returns to Davenport to resume work after a weekend with his parents. Des Moines resident Mrs. N M Anderson visits Crawfordsville Ainsworth and the McFarland home before returning home. Webster City visitor Ira Mae Clendenning joins relatives for Simpson reunion on August 29 at Sunset Park. Bell D Miller travels to What Cheer to visit her son John. Howard Richardson and Kathryn Scranton visit Sigourney. Scranton returns home. Elizabeth Irwin returns from Mercer Pennsylvania after summer with W T K Thompson and travels with A E Forgey group. Marie Snyders spends a week in Mulctine with Verna Erickson. J K Underwood and Helen Louise visit from Knoxville, Tennessee, returning via Chicago. he teaches at Knoxville College. Mrs. Glenn Eldridge visits Camp Dodge to see her husband. Mrs. W E Berger of Auburn Nebraska visits J L Brokhart while Mr. Berger is in Mississippi.
An Atchison Globe quotation questions why society urges people to leave their routines. It contrasts this with a railway disaster where a locomotive derails and causes many deaths, using the example to frame the critique.
Jamestown’s founding on May 18, 1607 began the first English settlement in America led by Captain John Smith. The colony numbered 105 men with only 20 skilled mechanics or agriculturists among them.
A blunt remark notes that even a man who admits ignorance of the stage may still persist in acting the fool, suggesting stubborn vanity in pursuit of acting. The line reflects a theatrical world where vanity clashes with competence.
In Akron a young boy swallows a peedie and suffers a stitch in the side. Farm and Fireside notes the curious mishap in a light children’s feature.
Mayor J. W. Applegate plans to attend the Iowa league of municipalities annual meeting in Cedar Rapids starting tomorrow. The convention runs for three days.
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