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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1932
Page
8
Miss Ida Tarbell closes the Improvement League Lecture course while local shoppers are urged to switch to MecKes sons shaving cream for better shaves. The ad notes it may not be your razor but the soap you use and recommends trying MecKes sons.
An advertisement promotes Ny l ons Hair Tonic promising relief for itchy scalp or dandruff. Also notes weather with cloudy skies and a shift from rain to snow, Southeast expected to see snow.
Mrs. Della Miller ill with flu. all taxpayers and candidates urged to attend a city hall meeting Saturday night March 5 at 7 30 to discuss tax problems. Miss Faye Swickard returns to work at the Graham store after an illness week with flu.
J A Nichols of Welman came on business. Mrs A A Speis and Mrs Lee Arthaud of Ainsworth shopped here yesterday. Walter Terrel of Eddyville visiting at the Miller home after serving on a Davenport jury. Ernie Here and Keith Molesworth left for Galveston Texas where Keith will play baseball for the Texas Buccaneers. They visited Ivanhoe Minn and Washington with relatives. Keith, a shortstop, returns to Galveston after a raise and will be eligible for major league play next year. Lee Hanna of Crawfordsville shopped here. Mrs L H Orr returned from Creston where she managed Imperial cafe. the Orrs sold the cafe to R O Linder of Des Moines. Miss Mary Greenwood of Keota shopped here. Keota teacher Mina McCleary passed through on way to Crawfordsville for weekend. Walter Oetjen and A E Palmer went to Waterloo for a Norge refrigerator sales meeting.
March 4 marks the anticipated inauguration day with bands to play along Pennsylvania Avenue. The incoming president remains uncertain with Herbert Hoover or an undetermined Democrat as likely options, the eight months ahead expected to decide the outcome.
President Hoover signed a joint resolution authorizing $10,000,000 to establish an agricultural credit revolving fund under the secretary of agriculture. The fund may loan to individuals to aid local agricultural credit corporations, livestock loan companies, or similar bodies, and to increase their capital stock.
A Republican caucus will be held at Franklin Center on Saturday at 7 30 PM to elect delegates to the county convention.
Tommy Ryan, once a lightweight boxing champion now 83, gave a 1 PM demonstration at the high school auditorium for students. He used a punching bag and a 200 pound weight while discussing cigarette smoking discouragement during his travel lecture tour.
Washington March 4 A Ways and Means committee backed a 2 1 4 percent manufacturers sales tax aimed to raise 600 million to 625 million dollars annually. Acting Chairman Crisp of Georgia said a final decision on the tax could come tomorrow.
Three bandits robbed the State Bank of What Rock in Robinson Illinois, took 4500 dollars, and forced bank president John Taylor and brother Grant into a vault. They were arrested crossing the Wabash River bridge near Lawrenceville after authorities alerted Lawrenceville Vincennes and nearby police.
The Lindbergh family issues a confidential pledge toward the kidnapers promising no harm to anyone involved in the return. A letter to Colonel Lindbergh and Anne Lindbergh was found and traced through clues in Granville Ohio and Chicago. Police in multiple cities pursue leads and Gov Moore seeks a justice department conference in Trenton.
Mr and Mrs John Kimmel of Birmington Towa visit this weekend with daughters Mrs David McGattey and Mrs Ned Fisher. We give a bag of marbles with every pair of boys shoes J A Tiarwood Son 1612.
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