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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1919
Page
8
Anderson and Van Winkle advertise their auto repair shop opposite the Opera House inviting motorists to bring in cars now so repairs can be ready as roads improve. The 1912 notice emphasizes prompt service at the stand named.
The notice invites bids for road work in Highland township and says a board meeting will be at Highland Center on March 15. The clerk is Newton Whetstine of Ainsworth Iowa.
Vella has commercial body organized in Pella Iowa with over 100 members at a Saturday night meeting. Speakers included Attorney General Havner of Des Moines and Alex Miller of Washington along with Robert Shanahan secretary of the Oskaloosa Chamber. The group plans to tackle community problems and map big projects for summer and fall.
Local notes mention Lyon’s for cookies Rothschild’s selling capes and coats and butter fat at 1913 Dolmans sales. Read Eye for Eye in Evening Journal March 13. Mrs L F Pacey and Edith Reed visit Brimfield. Lee Cummings families head to Centerville for operation. Bus service call Lot Worley and Rev Mountford travels to Pittsburgh for church convocation. Local Edison Diamond Disc ad with W H L agent invites listening.
Local notices include Gusts of travel from Cairo Iowa to Des Moines Havre and Fairfield with several residents leaving for visits. Advertisements mention Mi O Na Stomach Tablets Lemon Pile Filling Parisian Sage hair product and a service to repair tin roofs and spouting.
Nazimova appears this week at the Graham in The New Porter with Charlie Chaplin also in a sneak appearance. The note praises Nazimova as the day’s greatest actress and invites readers to see her performance this Friday and Saturday.
Promotion for the La Cuauhtemoc Mine claims it will provide a safe dependable investment with a year dividend paid from the mine rather than a promoter. Investors are urged to call or write from the 311 F. M. State Bank building at 1616.
In Lima near Oelwein Iowa a fatal kitchen accident killed Myrtle Olive Durfey a daughter of Merle Durfey. The girl climbed onto a kitchen cabinet and pulled a large knife from a drawer. She fell to the floor and the knife pierced her heart causing instantaneous death. Funeral services were held at the Lima church.
Report from Rochester New York on a Kodak factory tour and a demonstration of the Eastman method for developing films. The writer, with eight years in Kodak finishing, notes many valuable ideas learned and promises more details tomorrow.
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