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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1929
Page
5
In a 1873 Washington press chronicle, local items recount a North Side barber shop’s style and a cornet band festival in person’s hall with strawberries and ice cream. Mentions of marriages, travel to Londonderry, a temperate year, and folk remedies mingle with tornado jokes and community notices. Also notes about sickness, fire extinguishment, church travel, and August celebrations.
Nellie Manners area reports show visits from Mr and Mrs Marion Work of Washington and Violet Twinam with sister Veda Twinam home from Chicago. Solar Hour club ladies hosted by Mrs Emma Lease enjoyed a two course luncheon, with several members absent. May 9 at 9:30 p.m. a household linen lesson includes posters for son Allen Delon, drills, folk dances, and pyramid Building demonstrations by high school students.
Reports from a Sunday school convention in Waterloo described sermons and anthems. Dr Bowers discussed hymn writers Isaac Watts and others, urging teaching older hymn traditions to youth. Organ preludes by Marshall Bidwell announced for a church recital during Music Week. Local visits and travels by parishioners were noted amid road and paving progress and medical trips.
The Brighton community announces the annual event schedule. The Junior-Senior banquet will be held Friday evening at the Methodist church dining rooms. May 10th brings the annual May fete on the high school lawn. Physical training instructor Mise Cresne directs the children's dancing with the high school teachers in charge. The high school orchestra under Mrs. Christiansen will perform followed by a public supper for pupils and patrons. F. E. Gents grocery moves to a newly decorated brick corner location. Dr E A Hortier moves his veterinary office into the Smiley building.
Dorothy Babb returns to work as residents recount visits and illness at Ward's store in Marshaltown Sunday. Families travel to Des Moines and Iowa City to visit relatives while students excel in Washington Academic contest with top prizes in World History and Stenography. The town records births and hospital news, with several residents visiting kin and planning upcoming moves.
An old medical note advises women on using magnesia for mild ailments. It promotes a simple remedy with Phillips’ Magnesia, in phased doses, claiming quick relief and gentle bowel movement. It mentions health benefits during expectancy and urges demand for the product from doctors and pharmacies.
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