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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1929
Page
7
Barron Evans loves Hester a rural mail carrier. A raid by thieves on her mail and her abduction triggers his rescue with aid arriving by telephone. He promises to keep her safe as they begin their life together.
The YMCA announces a weekly program with classes and tournaments. Highlights include special tumbling, swimming, and basketball for various ages plus a business men's volleyball league and an overnight cabin hike for the Advanced Hiking club.
High school pep club staged a mock wedding with Victory Daisy Franklin as bride and Muscatine Berne Enslin as groom amid a Washington Lytle wedding interruption. Attendants May Mangold Francis Crone received orange sweaters and black chenille W letters. The band and orchestra rehearsed over vacation as the school closed for two weeks for the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike L. Greiner and Mike Sieren called in Washington. Petie Tinnes Nickie and Boone Ott visited the Robert G. Sheetz home. Men from the vicinity attended Andy Brinnings sale. Jake Kiefer and Petie Tinnes were business callers in Washington. Lawrence Greiner and Reynold visited Robert Sheetz home for Senator Brookhart speech from W HO Des Moines. August Tinnes sawing wood with Robert Sheetz family. Petie Tinnes and Leo Keifer visited Jake Kelfers Sunday.
The article notes the highest inhabited places in the world: a Chilean mining district at 18 480 feet, a Peruvian mining district at 16 200 feet, and a Tibetan monastery at 15 200 feet. It adds the United States highest home the Pikes Peak Observatory in Colorado at over 14 000 feet.
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