Local Briefs and Shopper Notes Include Visits and Car Ads
B Dowell returns to Rock Island job after family illness. Crail's advertises practical Christmas gifts from cloaks to linens. Mrs Hazel Goble visits her father D F E Hethcote in town. Falk Motor Co offers chains oils Ford supplies and repair. Bertha Smith and Marie Hartnell visit Rubio then return home. Ashby and Work advertise $10 000 in Liberty Bonds. Karl Fisher visits grandmother Mrs G E Lewis in Keota.
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Local ads mix of services and sales in town
Multiple short items list oil and tire services, auctions, retail sales, and local notices. People travel for visits, license issued, Christmas sales and card printing offered. Businesses include Falk Motor Co Bevins Motor Co Town Gas Electric and Grace Hill event details.
Leather gloves and other Christmas gifts on sale
The advertisement lists ladies and children leather gloves priced at 1.25 1.95 2.65 and 3.60 per pair. It also promotes Sheffield Plate Sandwich Plates from 6.00 and up and names local merchants Crail's Weathphal's and Falk Motor Co as gift outlets with notes on services and promotions. Various personal notices reference visits and sales leading up to Christmas.
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