Local Ladies Hold Socials and Birthday Party
The Kolah club ladies hosted husbands and families at a chicken dinner at Clyde and Grace Knapp's home. Doris Fields marked her eighth birthday with a party for sixteen friends, featuring pink cake and gifts. Grace Hill Ladies Aid hosted a 10 cent social at the Community building with recitations and games, raising five dollars for the group.
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The
Kolah Club
Clyde Knapp
Doris Fields
Ladies Aid Society of
Grace Hill
Beuleh Miksch
Meriam Milech
Grace Johnson
Carl Miller
Miss Homes
Marie Churchill
Maurice Jones
Ralph Brinning
Howard Hotle
Mise Cecle Hotle
Charles Marvey
Levi Shidler
Effie Porter
Local notes advertise trades and sales in area
Geo W Stewart offers auto windmills tin work and house spouting while Owing to a residence move H M Dodder changes phone to 392 Red H. Miss Elsie French passes through on route Davenport to Ainsworth Hollingsworth auto sale of house and lot March 8 at 2 pm Lester Morrison returns from Keosauqua Maple syrup orders via Mrs A A Rynearson phone 488 Frank Macon reports 31 sales in February four weeks with heavy January start and three open dates
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Frank Macon
Royal Cleaners Glove Finisher Promises Best Results
Royal Cleaners touts a new glove finisher and invites customers to try it with the claim that old gloves will look new after service. The ad repeats the phone number 366 and urges trial.
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Royal Cleaners
County Fair Delights Students and Visitors in Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville March 3. W G Huston Lee Hanna and Jon Robert with Miss Jeanette Wooley visited Washington Saturday. A two night County Fair by high school students grossed about 72 dollars. Attractions included a Chamber of Horrors a Braidamaphone a minstrel show a boxing match and a baby show. Rev P H Hayley returned from California and local banks stayed busy March 1.
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Crawfordsville
W. G. Huston
Lee Hanna
Jon Robert
Jeanette Wooley
Washington
Chamber of Horrors
Isabelle Carrick
Dale Duncan
Paul Maxwell
Robertson
Aceticism and Its Historical Meaning in Classical Thought
Aceticism refers to severe virtue and mastery of desires. It is described as the extreme practice of the simple life. In ancient Greece it denoted the discipline exercised by athletes in training.
Large Farm Sale Near Danville Sets County Record
A 240 acre Mix farm near Danville sold to P. J. Hurley of Henry county for $54,000, one of the largest county farm sales in a year. The heirs of George and Sabeth Mix, now deceased, sold the property as recorded by County Recorder KE C. Youngstrom.
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Burlington
C. Youngstrom
Mix
Danville
P. J. Hurley
Henry County
George
Sabeth Mix
Stolen Liberty Bonds Reported In Pittsburgh
A theft of $160,000 in Liberty Bonds cash and other securities from the James B. Oliver estate on the twenty second floor of the Oliver building was reported to police. The item notes similar thefts nationwide and promoting safety deposit boxes at the Washington National.
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Pittsburg
Liberty
James B. Oliver
Oliver Building
Chicago Tribune
Washington National
Zoological Notes and a Woman’s Mouse Fear
A Cincinnati Enquirer fragment laments the paradox of a woman seen as perfectly capable yet terrified by a single mouse. The note contrasts feline grace with mouse-induced fear.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
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H. M. Dodder
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Elsie French
Davenport
Ainsworth
Hollingsworth Autoon
Lester Morrison
Keosauqua
Oscer Haney
A. A. Rynearson
Hollingsworth
Laura Fenton
Clinton, Ill
M. H. Sartor
Tracy & Weidner
Frank Clark
Atchison
Otto Walton
G. I. Petters
Brighton
Harry Kilgore
Claude
John Squire
W. J. Kieper
Emme Walker
Hollingswort
Madison Street
Ask Dempsey and Teeter
Hazel Hunter
David Turnipseed
Robert Earl
Helen
Wellston
Webster
Mr. Turnipseed
Mart Casey
Ethel Singmaster
Len Singmaster
Estherville, l
Ethel
Casey
M. O'Loughlin
Henry N. Dunning
New York City
China
Effie O'Loughlin Dunning
Effie Dunning
P. H. Hayley
California
J. B. McNeill
Muscatine District
Minute Men
M. B
Mary Covert
Kansas
Covert
PD. H. Miller
Gladden Mast
Frances and
Norrene
den Mast
Frances
J. B. McCoy
Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Foley
Lemmon’s
Advt
Washington County
John Alex Young
Iles C. Cunningham Vey & Younes
Pene C. Bellecce
Wis Fifer
Dodds
Chas J. Wilson
Wm. A. Cook
C. C. Cunningham
Wickham Lloyd Uyttle Wilson
Balley
Hart Schaffner
Henry Co
Pittsburgh
U. S
Marx
Schaffner & Marx
Saturday Evening Post
Kiein Klothng Kompany
Washington, Iowa
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