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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1928
Page
8
Mrs Belle Rice received nine letters from her son Frank dated April 9 describing the Rainbow Division's battalion returning to the trenches after a brief rest period. The messages confirm ongoing frontline duty and family news amid wartime deployments.
P McCaulley took friends to Mount Pleasant to hear Hazel Kracaw perform The Dust of the Earth by Kenneth Goodman. Kracaw, formerly local, now at Iowa Wesleyan, has long been praised as an engaging reader and performer.
Local ads list bargains from Cash and Carry Market with ham brisket and pork sausage. Candy Kitchen promotes ice cream flavors and fruit ices. Brown’s Tire Shop offers Quaker State oil. Mrs S B Dewey ill in county hospital. Hats from H I Ward and Co priced 1.95 to 4.95. P E O rummage sale advertised. Dr F W Eastwood returns from Wisconsin. Marcy Lee wash dresses 1.95 at H I Ward and Co.
Mrs Claude McCall traveled to Havre last evening to visit her daughter Mrs H La Wittrig at her home.
Republican voters in Washington township will hold a caucus Monday evening in Ainsworth to nominate two trustees one clerk one assessor two justices of the peace two constables and a committee man W T Trotter listed as committeeman Auctioneer D F Macon Washington Iowa Phone 251 Red 289 food note encourages after Clean Up and Paint Up Week to rest with a meal and homemade ice cream at Chocolate Shop offering apple and chocolate flavors
Silk dresses advertised for a rummage sale opposite Graham Theatre with readable mention of children’s clothes that can be made from the fabric.
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