Show Week in Washington Brims With Music and Vaudeville
Washington offers a full week of entertainment from music week in churches and high class concerts to Harold Lloyd in Speedy and Richard Barthelmess in The Patent Leather Kid at local theaters. Neale Helvey's vaudeville show plays nightly with additional indoor miniature circus events at the Y gym for the 9th and 10th.
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Washington
Presbyterian Church
Harold Lloyd
Graham
Richard Barthelmess
The
Fox
Neale Helvey
Hoover's Early Years and a Croup Tale from Aunt Ellen
In a reminiscence Will Irwin recounts Herbert Hoover as a child prone to croup. The Hoover parents Jessie and Hulda kept him despite illness, and during a severe winter episode Aunt Ellen served as nurse. After a fatal choking episode she believed life returned, with signs of revival observed before recovery remained uncertain.
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United States
Ellen
Will Irwin
Herbert Hoover
Jesse
Hulda Hoover
Herbert
Croup
Jessie
Aunt Ellen
Sis
Jokes and Vignettes From The Times Of Everyday Life
A collection of quips and anecdotes from readers and contributors including a would be manager joking he is engaged to the secretary, a Renaissance joke about exams, a parrot sale, and misc humorous exchanges between a deacon and a weathered landlady. Also notes on school life and classroom humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Willie
Busy week plea for contributions with humorous quips
In a jovial appeal the author urges strong community participation quoting phrases about Napo leon, jellyfish, and a sterling dust mop incentive for the best donor of the week. The piece cites a crowd of fifty thousand and ends with a quick anecdote about a man in New Hampshire who runs out of gas and meets a boy.
Roadside antics and a Hawaiian birth in a distracted era
A tangled jumble of overheard quips and oddities unfolds from a roadster near St Charles Avenue to a Hawaiian baby named Ruth Kepilihaleokehuonalii Mike Hopeni Hoomanawanut. A labor official labels a Californian undesirable alien amid talk of broken brakes and drifting morals.
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Honolulu
Assistant Secretary of Labor
Leieusszuieuszessze Millihimininzziteizzi
Folsom
California
Ruth Kepilihaleokehuonalii
Mike Hopeni Hoomanawanut
St. Charles Avenue
Republican Announces County Office Candidacies
Political notices show D. W. Harvey Jr seeking County Attorney, Hubert Crail for County Auditor, and C Dayton running for General Assembly from the 23rd district Washington County, all subject to the June 1925 Republican primary.
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General Assembly
Washington County
Dayton
Candidate Statement for County Sheriff Race
A candidate declares intent to run for County Sheriff subject to Democratic voters at the June primaries. The text notes the candidate’s name Thom and affiliation with the party as part of a campaign disclosure.
Political Notices and Election Announcements Listed
Bart Jackson seeks the office of sheriff in Washington county subject to Democratic primaries in June. Oramel Stoner Sr announces for the Board of Supervisors on the Republican ticket with term starting Jan 1, 1930, at the June 4, 1928 primary. D H Wentworth of Brighton Ia, 59, appears for a June 4 notice. Modern Woodmen meeting May 10 urges members to attend, especially rural members, for an important agenda item. D L Carbaugh, V C, E G Fox, clerk.
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Washington County
Oramel Stoner, Sr
Board of Supervisors
D. H. Wentworth
Brighton
D. L. Carbaugh
V. C
E. G. Fox
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the Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
Elder, Shannon & CO
Bruce Cowden
East Main Street
Iowa
United Press
Jewell Joy Bader
Brooklyn, N.Y
Jack
Ima Jean
Tentro, Wagoner
Okla
Syracuse Journal
Deacon Miller
Osseo
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Monahan
A. 4. Smith
Central City
Neb
Bill
William
Ima
Jean Renfro, Wagoner
Adams
Thelma Niskern
Monett
Napoleon
New Hampshire
Florists Telegraph Delivery Association
Wolf Floral CO
West Side Square
Ina
Moore
Skeeter
Mount Ara
D. W. Harvey, Jr
Hubert Crail
Thom
Bart Jackson
Fri & Ptues
Scream
Linder Iverson CO
Grahams Chain
Sands Point
Virginia Dare
Virginia
Dare
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