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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1928
Page
6
A note records Mrs. E. W. Bambrick and her young daughter Evelyn spending today in Rock Island. An unrelated ad promotes Lee's Germozone and a free nickel vanity case with every package of Three Flowers Face Powder. Weather outlook hints unsettled conditions tonight and Tuesday.
Isabelle Lemmon returned from Burlington after visiting Marie Kreig and friends. She attended Margaret Simmons wedding at Fairfield then travelled to Burlington. Mrs L A Crane and Mary Bruce of Medford Oregon visit the Colthurst home at Kingsworth for the summer. Theodore Pratt reports joining Hampsher Barber Shop. Swartzendruber of Kalona came to Washington on business. Floyd Erickson leaves Washington for Clarinda then Mt Vernon to work for Swift Co. Win Smonse advertises kindling. Charles Haln of Prighton came to Washington on business. Mr and Mrs BR EL McCunie and son shopped in Washington. Benlah Melkubn Edith Edwards Hl B Askea and William Widmer visited Davenport yesterday. Harold Hazen family drove to Burlington yesterday.
A sequence of short notes reports visits to Washington by Mr and Mrs Otto Walton and children Wilma and Donald of Brighton and others from Bri ghton Burlington Waterloo Ainsworth Monmouth Grinnell Wayland and Winfield. People shop travel and return from vacations including Ed Conner and his brother Harry Conner, Rev Stockwell, and families from Crawfordsville Davenport Iowa Falls and Jackson Michigan with various church and store stops noted.
The name Auld Reekie for Edinburgh means Old Smoky and dates from when Edinburgh was Scotland's largest town.
A medieval debate labeled using a fee to cool drinks as a capital sin in early Middle Ages, reflecting strict control over beverage cooling methods and moral standards of the time.
The column lists locals visiting relatives and friends in Fairfield Washington Oskaloosa Des Moines and Ames. It notes trips by Ed Ramsey Sarah Cubllett Elta Morrison Loyd Morrison and others. Mentions a watermelon sale and a production firm sale and a telegraph worker’s move to Omaha.
Mr and Mrs Paul Astrey and others spent yesterday in Muscatine. Blanche Spevacek and Zelma Moser visited Zelma's parents in Strawberry Point. Carl Keck attended the opening of a new bank in Davenport with Fred Skola. Will Duncan family visited Crawfordsville. Albert Adams traveled from Keota to Washington. Glenn Jacobs family and Cephas Dodds visited in Washington. Carl Hedges and daughters Ruth and Mary Kerr visited Wayland.
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