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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1907
Page
3
The Beggar Prince Comic Opera Co. receives high public praise in major cities and will perform at the opera house Thanksgiving afternoon and evening. City carriers will deliver morning mail and be at windows until 11 am when the post office closes for the day. Devils food and angel food for everybody at the Vienna.
The Vienna offers a broad selection of layer cakes, claiming the city’s largest assortment for pastry lovers. Customers can choose from multiple flavors and styles, with new varieties added regularly.
Postoffice will close after morning mail delivery tomorrow in observance of Thanksgiving. Rural carriers will not go out, and regular service will resume the next business day.
The Journal will not publish on Thanksgiving as the staff takes a quiet day in Washington. The paper plans to rest and then resume work to tackle holiday duties with renewed vigor.
A bakery in the city promotes its extensive assortment as the largest and best in town at the Vienna venue. The note mentions sailors' workwear morale improving freedom of movement and deck washing flexibility.
Della Saur Lula Tobin Frank Tellin and Winfred Durst open winter schools in their former fall districts. Wm Koening and family visited Wes Reiner. Bessie Shalla visited at home. Albert Escher entertained guests. Al Sharpe Ed Kallous families with Jos Shalla. Frank Freund rents Tom Berdo 80 acres for next year. Mrs Tresa Chittum and Miss Mary Smith visited Riverside. Frank Lintz delivered hogs to Schleichters Kalona. Reeves family praised by neighbors as they leave. Fresh rolls advertised for Vienna tonight and tomorrow morning.
Mr and Mrs J L Mayer visited Henry Waldrick. Mae McCaleb stayed with Viola Smith. Mr and Mrs Mike Koch and Mr and Mrs Ed Grubb visited John Koch. The Dunbars and Pearl McNees visited George Hotle. The Mangolds reported a rapid recovery for a little boy. A charity oyster supper by the I O O F lodge at Dublin drew about seventy five attendees with lively entertainment by Mae McCaleb and others.
Misses Luella Hazell and Pauline Beal hosted a Saturday afternoon gathering from 1 30 to 5 with games music and a two course luncheon served by Misses Fannie Beal and Myra Gibson. Several local residents including Mrs Martha Eyestone and Maud Ahrens were noted in visits as well.
Nov 26 reports Mr and Mrs Tom Ford and daughter Cecil from Missouri visiting the Strickland family. Thanksgiving day hosts a shooting match. E Grubb M Koch and spouses visited John Koch home at Dublin Sunday. Doc Eagle and family near Dublin called at Strickland home. Rumor says Nick Tinnes plans to sell his store and move to Colorado. Town would miss the family.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson argues sugar tops after meat bread and butter as essential food. He says skipping desserts reveals hunger and incomplete meals, noting workers favor pie and that sugar reduces alcohol craving. He cites government candy shipments to soldiers and calls sugar prejudices born of Puritanism and cost concerns.
The Beggar Prince Comic Opera Company is featured as the next attraction at the opera house on Thanksgiving afternoon and evening. The cast is selected for vocal and dance excellence with novel specialties promised, and the show is praised as a laughing, well received revival.
An advertisement claims Dr. Shoop's Restorative strengthens stomach heart and kidney nerves and offers free samples from Racine Wisconsin. It urges readers to use the tablets or liquid to restore nerve health and quick relief. J. H. Stewart endorses the product.
The dialect tale says Joe Bing cut ten cords of wood from sunrise to sunset, split and stacked it, cut eight loads of hay, and raked. He finished in twelve hours, and by bedtime could have cut more. He also plowed four acres, all at Luscomb’s grocery area.
A rural tale notes a man who plowed the field quickly and neatly in a single day at Luscomb’s grocery store. He kept fine pace, tiredness none, and earned five dollars from Joe Bing and hopped chores with time for stops. The scene centers on J. D. Larkin as the location.
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