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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1950
Page
7
Local Thanksgiving gathering notes list visitors from Chicago Washington Iowa City Davenport and nearby towns. Names include Lon Sullivan Omer Peiffer Richard Starr Christina Derby Zeno Tines and others with family calls and dinners noted across several towns.
Fairfield area residents celebrate Thanksgiving with visits and dinners. Notables include Margaret Ann Guy visiting grandparents, Sherry Watson and others touring Parson College telescope, and multiple families sharing meals from Washington to Hillsboro. An emergency operation at Fairfield hospital and a lathe injury at a shop are noted alongside local visits by Wittmer and Weston families.
Hale readers note Havre on November 29 as Mr and Mrs Everett Westen host Sunday dinner for Mr and Mrs Dave Richard and Grand ma Frey of Wayland plus Roy Frey of unknown residence.
Willis Wittmer and family from Renwick visited midweek followed by Dwight Wittmer and family on Saturday. Dr. Samuel Wittmer of Des Moines and Virgil Wittmer of Washington attended with their families. A turkey shared the Thanksgiving table as relatives called on Floyd Stover and Dale Mitchell households for meals and visits.
In the era around the first major lumber migration in 1860, Saginaw City Michigan rose to surpass Bangor Maine as the largest liveliest and most volatile loggers town with grander hotels rowdier hotspots bigger bars and bloodier brawls than any prior lumber settlement.
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