Local notices and personal items from Washington journal
Local and personal news items note travel to Iowa City and Des Moines for conventions, welcomes for new barber, various family visits, farm and business updates, and social events. Names include W H Butterfield, J D Glasgow, George H Paul, Norman Vorse, Flossie Goble, and Mart Swift among many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Butterfield
J. D. Glasgow
Iowa City
Des Moines
George H. Paul
Pueblo
Colo
Norman Vorse
Marjorie
Alberta
D. F. Goble
Flossie
Pulaski Maxwell
Vorse
Daisy Smouse
Night Ride With a Mystic Motoring Stranger
A weary artist in a rural studio shelters a refined traveler named McGork Langford McGork who arrives with a lunch basket and insists on buying a painting of a young woman called The Lady in Brown. After a letter reveals a friend’s planned death, they rush by car to the city to intervene with a midnight deadline.
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MeGork
Langford MeGork
Mr. Paulson
Fernandez Bretillac
Paulson
Egypt
Kingdom Come
Bretillac
Stella
Fernandez
McGork
Estella Moore
Notice to farmers of hog sales for Mr J B Crooks coverage
CHAS S THOMAS notifies farmers with hogs to sell that during his two to three week absence J B Crooks will handle the business. Contact Crooks at Washington 383 or Mutual 43 at Cunningham's store to arrange sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart
the Royal
J. B. Crooks
Washington
Mutual
Cunningham
Chas. S. Thomas
Zemo Dandruff Cure Promises Clean Hair
Advert shows Zemo by E. W. Rose Medicine Co. St. Louis priced at $1 per bottle. A 2d sample is offered at McElhinney's Drug Store Washington Iowa with money back guarantee.
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Zemo
E. W. Rose Medicine Co
St. Louis
McElhinney’s
Washington
Iowa
Deadly scheme saved by a phone delay and fast cars
In a dramatic tale a man recalls two years of searching for a lost love while a deranged painter Bretillac plans to kill himself with gas. A late phone call and a slow Central lead to a breakthrough that saves a life and unites Bretillac with Estella Moore amid grateful thanks to faster cars and operators.
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Central
Bretiliac
Estella
Silence of English Crowds A Japanese Visitor Observes
An observer from Japan notes the quiet of English crowds in England contrasting with France and Japan. He recalls a visit to Shepherd's Bush where ten thousand people seemed like a desert if one closed their eyes. The reflection highlights cross cultural perceptions of public behavior.
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Shepherd's Bush
France
Japan
England
Philosophers, Kings, and the Path to Righteous Rule
A classical reflection argues that until philosophers govern and rulers embrace wisdom philosophy and political power unite. Only then will cities avoid turmoil and humanity glimpse hopeful change and light.
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Congress Hotel
A. E. Atchison
A. C. Dewey
T. W. Harwood
Iowa’ Retail Shoe Dealers’ Asociation
Frank L Wilson
Agnes Melville
Samuel Matthews
Nate Jones
W. O. Fisher
Rose Point
First United Presbyterian Church
Perry Tribblecock
Mother
Illinois
P. Maxwell
Keosauqua
Elden L. Stewart
Thomas Downing
State Board of Veterinary Examiners
Pansy
Elsie Minick
Hazel Snyder
Roy Mallory
la Monte
Charles A. Dewey
I. R. Schilling
N. Dd. Stryker
National Guard
Logan
Vienna
J. JH. Taylor
Will Phillips
Mr. Taylor
Mr. Phillips
Phillips
Mutual Fire
W. M. Sutherland
John T. Swift
Selfridge
N. D
Mart Swift
John
North Dakota
Mart
Mr. Swift
The
W. H. Warner
Obe Warner
Albert Lea
Minn
Warner
Rubio
Will Engle
James Delp
Ottumwa
Catherine Hoskins
Pleasant Plain
Frank McAvoy
Muscatine
City
West Chester
John Applegate
W. P. Moothart
E. Greer
Roscoe
Samuel Edgar
S. E. McElhinney
Ft. Morgan, Colo
Harry White
Miss Rhea
Crawfordsville
Alice Green
Carthage
Charles Jacoby
Clint Irwin
Monmouth
Macomb
Mary Hunter
Methodist Sunday School
Columbus Junction
Miss Hunter
Alma Beenblossom
Ethel McElwain
Ruth Bridges
Gladys Warner
Helen Morton
Ralph Williams
Helen
Martha Beenblossom
Anna Miller
A. Beenblossom
Anna Edwards
Joe Miller
Florence
di FF. Sayre
Mabel
Ainsworth
Will Stickley
Irene and
May Flynn
Lois Deitrich
California
Edna Tobin
Rose Flynn
Ethel Atkinson
Chicago
Elmer Lane
Charles Atkinson
Louis Frack
Davenport
A. Enderle
Margaret
William Powell
Robert McCall
Maxwell
St. Paul
Texas
Moline, Jr
Etherl Dodson
Earnest Dean
Will Mannussier
Woolson, Iowa
C. Lins
East Second Street
Minnie Wolfe
Seymour Martin
Lawrence Wilson
Detroit
Mich
Edgar Wilson
Ed Kiburz
J. A. Cunningham
East Washington Street
Ken Butler
John Sawtell
Oshkosh
Wis
Peter Findley
J. C. Bowie
John Patterson
Mrs. Miles
Valley Junction
Neal Parks
Kansas City
Frank Stierwalt
Mayme
Nettie Gardner
Wellman
Burlington
United Presbyterian Church of
Keokuk
Government Dam
W. J. Masson
Masson
Washington County
A. Tf
Washington National Bank
Eod Mart Swift
Will Gage Carey
Paulson—Paulson
SEI Kemp & Wagner
Lytle Bros
ROYAL
Royal Market Mutual
Zemo Vor
Dandruff
J. A. Harwood & Son
the Shoers
South Side
Snoutfer
Hughes & CO
Onouffer, Hughes & Gd
Europe
New York
BretNac
Bretillae
Jonea
Brown
Oso Roe Baker
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