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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1919
Page
8
Local store advertises kraut at 18¢ per can and syrups white and dark from 45c to 90c. Log Cabin Maple Syrup 60c per can. Coffee prices rising but available. best coffee in stock at 25¢ to 45¢ per pound. Tomatoes corn and peas offered at low prices.
Local shoppers mention Lyon's for cookies and Crall's for rugs. Lou Fox and Dewey shop for shoes, Carl Combs appears in market chatter. Butter fat price noted. Residents travel to Creston Keota Crawfordsville and Brighton for visits and business.
Read The Evening Journal advertisements. An Avery 510 tractor with light use is offered for bargain by Geo. W. Stewart. Also notes several local moves and illness updates including Mrs. John Rogers returning to Davenport and William McAvoy improving from pneumonia near West Chester. Mrs. Ray Lathern and son left for Walnut Iowa, and Mrs. Belle Rice travels to Des Moines to visit her son Frank Rice recently returned from overseas.
Mrs A O Pratt went to Brigh ton this morning to care for the Clark family all the members of whom are ill with influenza. Tiffany Tone Mrs Sarah Gobble and Helen returned home to Batavia after visiting Claude Tucker. Mrs E Hartman and son Edwin went to Muscatine while Mr Hartman attends a state ice cream makers convention. I will sell at Humble sale Thursday four extra good milch cows and three Guernsey yearling heifers. Glenn G Hayes.
Chicago guest Dix D. Dewey visits cousin Claire Dewey while a new barber shop opens at 218 S. Iowa Ave. Mrs. Reid returns from Des Moines and Ames trip. Marriage licenses issued for four couples. Carl Sturges visits from Carroll at J B Crooks home. Dandruff remedy ads and pharmacy notices mixed with bank safety boxes and stomach tablets promotion. Community notices include a dairy cow sale details at G M Humble’s auction with dates January 22 24 and 28.
G M Humble advertises cows for sale after selling his place and sets a price. The notice asks community high school teachers to register with Supt Smith on Thursday between 2:00 and 3:30 to serve as substitutes. Standard substitute pay will be offered to qualified helpers to minimize classroom disruption.
Mrs W E Scott of Peoria writes that her husband endured years of stomach trouble before starting Chamberlain's Tablets and they have done him good, curing him of the persistent ailment.
An advertisement urges trial of Chamberlains Tablets, claiming they reduce suffering and benefit users. Lemmon's Pharmacy is the selling outlet.
G M Humble's closing out sale on January 30 offers cows and dairy goods for sale. MR Ross buys the property and plans a dairy, including milk wagon bottles cans feed and farm. Remaining livestock and equipment such as cows hogs horses seed corn chickens potatoes harness and machinery will be sold to the highest bidder on January 30 at 11 o'clock.
Call 59 Red after 6 30 p m or write in care of the Journal Nita Belle McKoon agent tf Subscriptions available and club memberships organized through the Journal listing a local agent for reader engagement and sales opportunities.
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