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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1940
Page
3
The community gathers for informal Thanksgiving dinners with numerous families hosting relatives from West Chester, Ames, Cedar Rapids, Muscatine, Richland, Montezuma and more. Attendees include Palmer, Barden, Bell, Crone, Pratt, Payne, Walk, and numerous others, reflecting a wide spread of local and visiting guests. Prices and sales ads appear alongside meal notices from Moore Bootery and Sitter's in the same page.
The text lists several households hosting meals today with names such as Dan Storms Des Moines Flenner Robertson Crone Shaffer Evans Edwards Humston Risk Miller Welsh Meek McFadden Pratt and family. Fragments describe dinners at the parents' home and Royal Robertson home and a Harvey Meek gathering with multiple relatives.
A Thanksgiving report notes guests at the airfield including Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cole their son and two sisters Mrs Coleson and Mrs W McFadden who shared a dinner together.
Notice advertising top prices paid for poultry with blood testing offered. Bakers Hatchery located at 1826 N Marion and 244t Seod provide contact via phone for inquiries and sales.
The State Printing Board will solicit bids Friday December 6 1948 to contract printing of Legislative Bills Journals Bar Dockets and Miscellaneous State House forms. Bids due 10 A M and opened with awards made or all bids rejected. For specifics write David K Brown Supt of Printing State House Des Moines Iowa
Florida and Nebraska supreme courts upheld municipal authority to engage in competitive business ventures. The decisions affirm city participation in markets typically controlled by private firms, signaling broader municipal powers to pursue local economic objectives.
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