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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1934
Page
11
A group led by J. P. Mevoy and J. H. Striebei uses a life sized doll gifted by Mr Slewster to dress dolls for poor sick children. The effort aims to bring holiday cheer to youngsters through handmade outfits and donated dolls.
Fort nightly club Child study department assistant librarian Miss Blair Law prepared book lists for Christmas gifts for children of various ages. Notable items include Caldecott picture books for under three, A Frog Who Would A Wooing Go, A Apple Pie by Kate Greenaway, Songs of Childhood by Walter de la Mare, Tale of Peter Rabbit, Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Smith, Three Blind Mice by J. W Ivimey, Johnny Crows Garden by JL Brooke, and John Crow's party as a companion. Many titles are available at the library, Nicola and Harmon bookstore.
A catalog of children books and picture books including Marigold's Garden by Kate Greenaway Helen Bannerman stories Miki and Mary by Petershams The Christ Child Ola by the Aulaires Pinocchio and The Painted Pig plus many others with notes on editions illustrators and target ages.
Mr and Mrs Vernie Booth hosted guests including Herbert Ash and family from Iowa City and John Cray receiving hospital treatment. Lower Deer Creek Literary Society and W Q V Literary Club met, with Christmas gatherings and a social hour. Visitors included Hazel of Chicago Helen of Law Library and C C Neffenegeer family from West Chester.
Naereddin the shah of Persia attends Paris opera and orders attendants to buy the entire front row for her harem. He later supplies Lome with costumes as fashion from Paris spreads, and within forty years Persian ladies wear short fluffy ballet skirts.
An advertisement emphasizes watching kidneys as the body’s main waste filter. It notes kidneys contain about 10 million tiny tubes, comparable to 79 200 feet in length, and urges Doan's Pills for relief without drugs or habit formation.
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