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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1920
Page
6
Major and Mrs. Sneath oversee charitable efforts including clothing for the needy, jail and hospital work, street outreach, house visits, mission work, and visiting the sick at 101% N. Marion Ave. Other notes mention multiple visits and travels among residents and relatives across Ottumwa and nearby towns.
A collage of short items notes J C Bailey traveling to Ottumwa on business, Mrs Albert Peck and daughter Edith returning to Taylor Texas, a large listing of farms and town property for sale by Dempsecy Land Company, and numerous visits and travels of local residents. It mentions chicken feed ads, topographer in training Cecil Turner, and upcoming ice cream flavors for tomorrow. Local stores advertise rugs sails shoes and taxi services with phone numbers.
Several community items appear from Cedar Falls to Fairfield. Mrs. C W McCleary, missionary in Elat Africa, visits Fairfield and will speak at the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Frank Chihak returns from Rock Hill South Carolina with daughter Mrs. M W McConnell. Land sale records show I K Beal farm sold for 34000 to L G Roberts. Wool loaders plan Sept 6 7 at Milwaukee freight house.
French fruit vendors advertise sherbets while Mr and Mrs Ray Coffman accompany their daughter Grace to the train bringing Mrs Coffman’s mother Mrs John Neiswinter from South English to Valley Falls Kansas. Bruns Seed Store promotes Gardite powder for cabbage pests as Miss Mary Poole travels to Mt Pleasant and Brighton after a Smith Brookhart visit. The Fetters family visits Des Moines to see Arthur and the state fair while Kephart Beenblossom return from Mulberry Indiana with relatives and friends.
A Clear Lake postal card reports O. O. Davis and family spending a very pleasant week there after motoring up in their car.
An Arabian proverb notes six clues to a fool's character: anger without speech, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, trusting strangers, and misjudging foes as friends. The saying catalogs behavior patterns as signs of true nature.
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