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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1921
Page
8
Dale Denison had an accident while coasting near the W A Chilcote residence. Tint water bottles are in great demand now. Our hot white bottles and syringes are sold with a two year guarantee.
Taxi service operates day and night with phones listed. Atchisons offers five percent savings on the second shoe purchase. Sat2 advertises a combination sale with furniture heating stoves laundry items and harness. Mrs. John Bailey returns home to Cedar Rapids from visit with Mrs. Glasgow in town.
A cluster of brief items lists personal visits and errands in Davenport Iowa with names such as Mrs Wm Nicholson Mrs Walter Johnson Miss Dora Woodburn and Miss Eleanor Walker. Advertisements tout Syrups at Johnsons Grocery and a Saturday auction for Daniel Haines property near Washington Iowa. Multiple small notices include tire services at White Way Garage and a poultry tonic sale at Bruns Seed Store.
Mrs O B Tryon and Mary Downing returned to Richland this morning after visiting Mrs Tryon’s brother who is in the hospital here. Also notes a dance at Armory Tuesday night January 18 featuring Dunbar's White Hussars from Chicago. Alvin Morrow went to Burlington on business.
Mr and Mrs F D Baumeister spent the day in Crawfordsville while shoppers flock to Chambers Clothes Shop for bargains on cotton flannel mittens. Rheumatism remedies draw demand with Lemmon's Drug Store touting a guaranteed option. Fannie Funston of Keola shopped locally and announces Dunbar's White Hussars from Chicago perform Tuesday night January 18 with popular prices.
On January twelfth in a First Baptist ceremony Rev. W. Hi. Rogers united Misa Nora Lucille White and Don F. Beatty. The bride daughter of E. J. White, formerly Washington high school graduate, now farm bureau office manager. The groom son of John Beatty, plumber with Wilson Heating and Plumbing, served fourteen months at Fort Bliss.
Des Moines reports show 1 270 888 horses on town farms for year ending Jan 1 1920 and total cattle 4 292 702 including 1 083 890 milk cows. Swine count tops 9 100 434 with cholera losses 328 227. Silage 2 315 939 tons. apples 804 048 bushels. 26 746 silos on farms.
The article notes that certain people are liable to asthma attacks when exposed to animals such as cats and dogs. It attributes the reaction to an emanation from the skin or fur of the animal.
Uncle Eben quips that people waste time seeking fourleaf clovers while turning in and cutting the hay, urging practical work over luck in a rural scene.
A Boston Transcript note cites a Washington street placard urging readers to attend a shoes sale. The playful phrasing highlights a common advertising quirk in casual urban signage.
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