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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1941
Page
10
Howard Fulton and his son Alfred relocated today from 214 East Main Street to the Mrs H M Eicher property at 329 North Main Street. Fresh eggs are selling for 12 cents per dozen at Reister Bros. 2IF.
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Phillips and Ruth Anderson spent the day in Des Moines attending the state pharmaceutical convention. Mrs. Phillips visited Mrs. Grace Maffitt and Miss Anderson, accompanied by her sister Mildred Anderson, a student nurse at Iowa Methodist Hospital.
In Duluth visitors linger with relatives including O K Clapper and George Clapper. Local store notices promote Harwood’s final reductions on women’s shoes and pumps, and a Ford V eight sedan offered in Washington Iowa for 770 dollars. Church events and a Dorcas society correction are also mentioned alongside visits from the Titteringtons and Daminrows.
Washington officials told a congressional committee that twenty labor disputes were active today in national defense industries. They said the situation was not serious enough to justify regulation prohibiting strikes.
About 150 pairs of very high grade women's pumps with straps and ties offered. Values to 7.50 dollars. Sale price only 1.96 dollars per pair at Harwood’s.
A bill filed in Des Moines seeks to regulate theater bank nights. It would stop prize carryovers and require day of drawing registration to exclude fictitious names. Sponsors are reps Joseph Wagner Ottumwa and James Stanek Calender both Democrats.
Luverne Rhoads of 620 West Jefferson was admitted yesterday afternoon as a medical patient at the local hospital.
The Iowa House approved by 69 to 41 a bill requiring butter instead of oleomargarine at state institutions. It also passed a 6,822,500 annual maintenance budget for state educational institutions for the coming biennium and sent the measures to the Senate.
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