Dayton Grove Social Notes and Gatherings
Mrs Clarence Johnson visited Mrs Win Carr and Mr and Mrs Ernest Crawford were Washington callers. Lloyd Miller and Betty Jean and Capitola Flynn attended an oyster supper at Robert Stephens home on New Year’s Eve. Dusenberry and Donald of Rock Island stayed with Sam Schulty over weekend. Mrs Dusenberry visited Sunday afternoon with J B Moore. Robert Stephens hosted a family dinner Dec 31 including J D Morrison Forrest Morrison and Jimmy. Dyle Morrison Carolee and Downey. Mrs Stephens and Mary Jane ill with severe colds. So and Sew club met at Mrs Harold Timmins due to sickness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Moore
Dayton Grove
Clarence Johnson
Win. Carr
Ernest Crawford
Washington
Lloyd Miller
Betty Jean
Capitola Flynn
Robert Stephens
Wm. Dusenberry
Donald
Rock Island
Sam Schulty
Dusenberry
J. D. Morrison
Forrest Morrison
Jimmy
Dyle Morrison
Carolee and
Downey
Mary Jane
Stephens
Harold Timmins
Scrap iron from York railway demolition fuels auto body material
About 18 000 tons of scrap iron were obtained from the demolition of York's 60-year-old Sixth Avenue coated railway. The tonnage would provide raw material for 00 automobile bodies.
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York
Sixth Avenue
First Newsboys Advertised to Deliver Papers in 18th Century
The entry notes that the earliest English newspaper hired boys to hawk papers after the 1622 Weekly Newes in London. In America, the first boy newspaper sellers appeared with New England weeklies around 1754, with New York Weekly Mercury likely first to advertise for delivery on September 14, 1761.
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Newes
London
America
New England
New York Weekly Mercury
Average American Home Furnishing Spend Revealed
A trade survey shows United States spending over 1.6 billion dollars yearly on furniture and household appliances. It indicates the average American family allocates about 45 dollars annually to furnish its home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Transportation schedules and lodge notice in one page
A mixed page lists travel timetables for Union Pacific and B M rail lines with multiple west and eastbound departures. It also includes a regular meeting notice for Washington Lodge No. 26 A F and A M with officers Kay Cox and A W Yard, and a Burlington Trailways bus schedule detailing westbound and eastbound departures from Washington with ticketing notes.
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Washington Lodge No
A. F
A. M
Kay Cox
W. M
A. W. Yard
Burlington Trailways
Washington
One Trip Plumber Plumbing and Heating Installation
One Trip Plumber offers installation and repair services at affordable prices with work guaranteed. Call 1211 Slowa for service.
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Slowa
Install K P Lodge Officers In Brighton
The K P lodge in Brighton installed officers including Loren McNeese as Commander and Max Waterhouse as Vice Commander at a Tuesday meeting. Other posts filled: Prelate John McClintic, Master of Work M V Beauchamp, Keeper Homer Brown, Exchequer Floyd Arnold, Finance Homer Brown, Master at Arms Mar McClintic, Inner Guard Walter Shuppy, Outer Guard John Vanerus, Trustee Walter Shuppy. Read the Want Ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhua Helmick
Brighton
K. P. Lodge
Loren McNeese
Max Waterhouse
John McClintic
M. V. Beauchamp
Homer Brown
Floyd Arnold
Mar McClintic
Walter Shuppy
John Vanerus
J. F. Frazey
Cal Stevens
Ott Edwards
Muscatine
Colorado
Robert Brinton
Grand Junction
Popular Cow Boy Song Theme Sparks Entertaining Autry Western
Wored popular cow boy song theme in new Autry film South of the Borders opens at Fox Theatre. Gene Autry delivers a warm screen presence in a life south of the Grande with a romance featuring a Spanish senorita who joins a convent. Smiley Burnette adds laughs while Lupita Tovar and June Storey star in the lively affair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WORED
AUTRY
FIM
Fox Theatre
Smiley Burnette
Mary Lee
New York
Ted Weem
Lupita Tovar
June Storey
Lois
Columbia coinages new word for vast public debt
Columbia University reports the coinage of a new term googol to describe a number starting with 1 followed by 100 zeros, a handy measure for large public debt concepts discussed in the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University
Gum Spending Per Capita in 1937 Revealed by Commerce Bureau
Americans spent 82 cents per person on chewing gum in 1937, per analysis by the Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau statistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breau
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Dixie Dugan
MR. O'Brian
MR. McGregor
By Striebel
McEvoy
Suzie
Archibald
Washington Dairy
Official
Washington Directory
Optometrists
iRichard
Yunty
Kyliety
Ned Morrow
Harve P. Wilson
Fred Bauer
Chiropractors
Dr, Chas, C. Brown
Court House
Washington Independent School District
F. A. Ralston
Harland W. Mead
Georags Fields
Ethel
A. EB. Atchison
W. Tucker
Second Ave
Iowa
Theodore B. Bailey
Attorney At Law Loan & Trust
W. Livingston
West Main St
Officers
Lloyd Lytle
W. H. Fulton
E. F. Muck
Henry Bailey
Hese Aiapeoat
P. L. Jordan
J. O. Brown
Walter Kieser
Mark Pratt
C. Reister
Lemley City
D. OC
Barret Park
Marian 8. Bailey
Frank B. Miller
J. B. Lemmon
Lester H. Orr
C. F. Roller
R. F. McFarlane
Will Dupuis
Clarence Jacobs
Fred Reld
Ervy
Eva Denny
Homer Stephen
Jones Funeral Home
East Main St
Sherman
Weert Main St
Lemley & Yard General Insurance
East Main Street
Golden State Limited
Goodlander
C. F. Anderson
O. M
Davenport
Kansas City
Southwest Limited
Kansas City-Davenport
W. C. Bell
Omaha
Chicago
Candy Kitchen
North Side Square
Cantoni
Eveready Plumbing Shop
Mander
Vint Emry
Denver
F. M. Swisher
Texas
Hyde
Burch Hyde
Ed Hagans
John Hyde
Orlon Hiatt
Joe Hagans
Will Nordyke
Hickenbottom
Clifford Garrett
Lynn Waterhouse
Clive Grines
Charlie
Frank Parcell
Fairfield
Jim Hagans
Ottumwa
Homer Black
New London
Richard Svee
Oskaloosa
Myron Hansen
New Sharon
Hansen
R. W. Fillmore
Des Moines
Iowa Christian Ministers Association
Equality Club
E. A. Mortimore
Pleasant Valley Club
Ralph Tracy
Or.p
Jia
Journal
Washington County
Evening Journal
the Evening Journal
Fostoria Glass
Glass of Fashion
Westphal the Jeweler
Battery Charg Jacobs
Ing Tire & Radio
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