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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 02, 1925

Page

8

Local Notices and Real Estate Moves in Washington

Rothschild trades lease on Clara Barton street to Joe Narek for a house in Iowa City. Mareks plan to move to Washington at once. McKinstrys will store furniture and summer visit relatives. McKinstry to Cedar Falls. Cunningham rents house to Sam Miller. Schremps visit from Sigourney with Maurice. they plan to return. John McCall of Havre branches through town for business today.

I. Rothschild Clara Barton Street Joe Narek Iowa City Chas. Cunningham Cunningham South Iowa Avenue Sam Miller John McCall Havre

Local social notes and upcoming events from town papers

Families visit relatives and travel to nearby towns including Ainsworth Davenport Muscatine and Ottumwa. Church choir plans The Gypsy Rover May 15 at H S auditorium. Local residents move attend Shrine sessions Grand Rapids Michigan and Ames extension course updates cite 1866 Press notes featuring Clara Barton P T Barnum Ralph Emerson.

Local residents host visits and travel notes span town and beyond

Mrs. Adam Gentinger travels to Clio Iowa to visit daughter Mrs Frank Meyers. Miss Maria Scott returns to Birmingham Alabama from Washington relatives. Anna Coulter improves after illness. Mrs George Marr and daughter shop in Crawfordsville after arriving from Ainsworth. Mrs Claudia Davis visits relatives in Wyman as her mother Mrs Evans improves. Various local notes cover visits, travel, illness, and upcoming Legion meeting with ads for services and sales.

Adam Gentinger J. H. Genkinger Clio Iowa Frank Meyers Maria Scott Washington Birmingham Lens Claudia Davis Samuel Evans Wyman Evans

Advertising Guide for Food Merchants

A compact bulletin informs merchants how to use advertisements as guides to food merchandise. It outlines practical tips for crafting ad copy, selecting products, and presenting pricing to attract customers.

Junior Senior banquet marks Crawfordsville seniors 1925 event

The Junior-Senior banquet was held at 6 30 in the home economics room of the school building for May 1 1925. The American Legion Auxiliary served and decorated in old rose and silver with a large circular crepe paper ceiling design. The menu featured fruit cocktail smothered chicken and Raspberry Sherbet with a radio themed toast program and a reception in the public library room.

Crawfordsville Connet En Ear The American Legion Auxiliary Farl Barnes Margaret Gault Marian Davidson Denis Jones Miss Craig Hope Huston Mr. Ross Max Anwyl Marian Pavideon Etna James Miss Reaney

New Glacier Unearthed on Olympic Peninsula

A mile wide ice field is reported in Washingtons Olympic peninsula as scientists note a new glacier discovery. The find adds to regional glaciology and may influence local climate studies in the area.

Olympic Peninsula Washington Pacific

NYC Death Toll From Diseases Stays Alarming

Last year organic heart disease killed nearly three times as many people in New York City as tuberculosis, more than twice as many as cancer, and over one and a half times as many as pneumonia.

New York City

Unemployment and Inventions Spread Across Ages

The text notes U S unemployment averaging 10 to 12 percent with four to six million affected. It mentions ancient incubators for chickens, a Berlin doctor stating English as a growing lingua franca, and gloves worn by Egyptians and Hebrews. A Pennsylvania mine flood lets a mule glimpse sunshine after fifteen years, hesitating at exposure.

United States Pennsylvania

Language Diversity Among American Indian Tribes

The article notes that tribal groups in America speak languages and dialects so distinct that members of one group cannot understand another. Even within the same linguistic family, neighboring tribes may use radically different dialects, a phenomenon seen among Southwest Pueblos where villages only 100 miles apart have mutually unintelligible speech.

Ink blot removal method for delicate bedroom paper

A large ink blot was treated with absorbent cotton soaked in enticle yvemover a toilet article for fingernails. The substance absorbed the ink then talcum powder was patted into the wet paper until the damaged area filled and smoothed. A rubber roller finished the smoothing.

Evolved Dish Origin Tied to English Picnic Founder

A national pork and beans dispenser credits Daniel Day Good, an Englishman, with first serving the dish. He hosted a July picnic inviting friends to sample pork and beans on the first Friday of every July, according to the report.

Daniel Day Good

Death of J. H. Wittrig at his home near Noble

J. H. Wittrig, about 42, died after a two week illness of influenza and erysipelas at his Noble area home. He led the Richer church, leaves a wife, two sons and four daughters. Funeral and services noted, with community mourning and updates on local club activities and aid shipments to Southern Illinois.

Crawfordsville J. H. Wittrig Noble Paul First Savings Bank Emerson W. (. Porter United Presbyterian Church Columbus City Leo Mak Waterloo Pearl McNeill Mak Illinois McCleary Anwyl

Ainsworth Social Happenings Sweep Through Des Moines Visit

Mrs J A Marsh visited Des Moines this week as relatives gathered for a church reception welcoming departing families Mr and Mrs Leo Mak Dr and Mrs W L Alcorn new members Dr Buckley and family Mrs Canton and Mr Blankenhorn About 50 attended music speeches and a basement reception with frappe and wafers. Edward Wright entertained at M E church and Ladies Kensington club met at Minnie Jacksons

Edward Wright Iowa Wesleyan College M. E. Church Ladies Kensington Club Minnie Jackson

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