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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1911
Page
9
Local notices mention Frey’s Studio at 4816 providing cameras, supplies, and a range of kodaks with new albums. Social updates record visits by Fox, Dewey, and others, with shopping at Darbyshire Drug Co and a Ladies Aid bazaar for the Methodist church on Saturday December 9.
Windsor Grocery advertises a three week exhibition of a 1000 pound cheese described as the largest ever in the county. The display invites customers to visit and see the giant dairy product in person.
Local ad notes ten thousand new holiday postals priced at one cent each or ten cents a dozen. Social items include guests visiting Mrs. Yavorsky and Miss Egan in Belle Plaine, and Mrs. Lola Wells Hughes returning to Cedar Falls for teaching. Other notes report travel, school updates, a funeral in Letts, and a Dec 28 public sale of a 200 acre Titus farm with stock and implements.
The program at the Opera House features five reels of photoplay under the American Theatre Dante’s Inferio with a lecture. Local residents Mrs. J G Maxwell and daughter Miss Lee Roy Tripp were in the city yesterday and plan winter stays in Colorado Springs.
Several second hand pianos are for sale by Eichelberger. Call to view them. Also reports of residents traveling for business and visits. Dr J Palmgren visited Crawfordsville this morning on business. Van M Storm from Ames left for Fort Madison after a week here working on the short course. Fresh salted nuts and shelled varieties offered at local shops with visits noted. Ed Wells and Pearl Phillips appear in social movements and travel mentions around town.
A daddy narrates mistaking fairies for mischief makers as he spies Christmas gifts afoot in town. Evelyn and Jack listen while a white crowned fairy and a blue suited boy fairy appear with holiday whispers. The tale ends with a warning that daddies should not pry into fairy stocking plans.
Clara Verna Kolosick aged two months and ten days died this morning at 9 30 at her parents home eight miles southeast of the city and near Ainsworth. She was a twin with the other child thriving. The infant was found dead in bed by its mother. The funeral will leave the home tomorrow at 9 30 for Elm Grove cemetery in this city.
The First Church of Christ will have no service tomorrow evening due to unfinished furnace repairs.
The funeral will be held tomorrow at 11 o clock at the family home in Dutch Creek township conducted by Rev. C T Rasche of this city. Interment will be in the German cemetery in Dutch Creek township.
The Ladies Aid society of the Methodist church will hold its annual bazaar and sale of homemade edibles on Saturday December 9 at the church. There will be apron booths fancy work booths baby booth and candy and edible booths. It offers Christmas gift opportunities while supporting the Aid society.
The Talker asserts no one should be sick today while the Joker counters that the assertion echoes patent medicine ads. The exchange mocks the idea and hints at humorous street conversation.
A book agent praising a richly illustrated volume faces a man who refuses to buy, saying he never purchases goods and prefers to wait while the agent shows him the leaves and engravings. The encounter ends with a witty exchange, highlighting a skeptical buyer.
The world’s deepest bore begun ten years ago in Czuchow Silesia aims for 2550 metres and has reached 2240 metres. The bore is 44 centimetres diameter at the top narrowing to nine centimetres deeper.
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