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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1928
Page
3
Australia operates a regular aviation medical service with doctors and dentists who travel vast territories by air to provide medical and dental care. The mobile teams reach remote communities, improving access to essential health services across the country.
West Chester correspondent notes light winter, good roads, and bonds support for county projects. He riffs on politics, Des Moines, and local figures Hammill Hickman and Pat, with social tidbits about visits, a father and son banquet, and playful remarks about cats and whiskers in a breezy, homespun column.
Knotek Bros. stage Thursday sale at Busby Manufacturing Co pavilion, offering Duroc bred sons and gilts linked to Fancy Stilts the world’s greatest Champion Duroc. The lot features top Duroen breed individuals with strong feeding qualities, sows and gilts for pork production, sale starts at 1 p.m. Weather won t affect proceedings.
An ad promotes Thoxine a cough remedy claimed to halt stubborn night coughs within 15 minutes. It promises a money back guarantee no chloroform or harmful drugs and notes safety for children. Available at McDaniel's with pricing 35c 60c and 1.00.
Centennial school P T A will meet Wednesday at 3 45 in the school house. The Snowball social club also plans a February 8 gathering with Mrs. Arthur Wylie. Pleasant Hill Ladies aid will hold an all day quilting at the church with lunch. Fortnightly Bible department meeting postponed to February 13 at 2 30. West Chester Methodist ladies aid to meet February 8 in church social rooms with serving committee named. Sunshine Community club to meet February 8 with Mrs Carl Schneider.
The Royal Neighbors plan a Tuesday evening gathering with Mrs. Joe Horn. Ins. Worth W R C holds a Feb meeting on Thursday at 2 p m. The Wellston Social club has an all day event at Nora McKinstry’s on Thursday Feb 9 with potluck. PLT A of Heights school meets Thursday at 3 45 with nervous child topic. Walnut Woman's club visits Mrs Glenn Dunbar Thursday afternoon with Washington Lincoln quotes and pattern exchange. The Fleur de Lis club hosts a Thursday potluck lunch at Everette Stewart home with officers elected. rolls and potatoes provided. The Independent club meets with Mrs Walter Brown Thursday afternoon. Prairie Blower Mission Circle convenes in church basement Thursday afternoon. hostesses listed. Inter-church committee gathers at library Wednesday at 3 p m.
Lillian Gish stars as Annie Laurie in the MGM spectacle portraying the Scottish heroine at New Graham Theatre. The film features grand castle recreations, clansmen in kilts, and dramatic Highland battles as Annie Laurie defies her tribesmen to save the man she loves.
An operation that severed Siamese twins and allowed one to live was revealed in Chicago. The twins were born February 1 to Mrs. Frank Keller on a farm near Marsills, Illinois. Dr. Paul B. Clark attended the birth and noted the twins were joined together in aloft fashion.
The 1927 American Royal featured Fancy Stilts as the sire of a junior boar at Atlanta and the first junior boar at the event. Sows and boars across shows including Central States and National Swine were sired by Fancy Stilts, with a grandson winning at Iowa.
In a dramatic emergency a makeshift box served as a cradle as doctors in Keller’s home prepared for surgery on conjoined twins. Dr. J H Edgecomb and Dr. Clark performed an ether anesthesia amid crude facilities. The union was severed and Meta Keller later recovered as a normal baby.
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