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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1923
Page
8
Wide array of small ads and notes from local shoppers and visitors. Mentions names such as Eva Reece Miss Dorothy Stewart and Miss Zelda Blake, plus residents like Mrs Ellen Wallace and Mrs T M Adams. Includes sales at Al Cocklin auction, Umbrellas repaired, and Wolff and Baker outfits.
Morning Sun dominates Olds 72 to 6 last Saturday as eleven touchdowns pace the visitors. Washington aims to rebound with a strong showing and stiff practice as they prepare for Morning Sun this Saturday. Other scores include Burlington 6 Muscatine 0 and Ottumwa 13 My Pleasant 0.
Mrs Charles Reps of Valley Junction spent the weekend here with her husband. Grimes Golden and Roman Stem apples, well sprayed, for sale. Tulip bulbs 40 to 75 cents a dozen. Mrs Katherine Bentainger and daughter Emma visit Burlington. Mrs Harvey Young goes to Brighton to care for granddaughter Gretch en Buck. Miss Oletha Seeton of Keota travels to Peoria for the fair.
A young man saves by setting a fixed weekly amount from his pay and aiming to exceed it by laying away extra funds. The article urges readers to adopt a saving system, noting success comes from consistency and opening a savings account with the bank.
Mrs Tilda Covington of Richmond Va returns home after visiting at the John Mondy house. Mrs W D Caldwell heads home to Burlington after visiting friends at What Cheer. Mrs W G Huston of Crawfordsville passes through on way home from Waterloo. Baptist ladies collect rummage donations Friday afternoon two doors south of K K K marked 1952.
About five to six thousand University of Iowa students gathered at Iowa Field for the annual induction service. Walter A. Jessup, university president, delivered the address as the student body and faculty processed from the campus to the stadium for the pledge of loyalty to nation state and university.
Faculty in academic garb led college and class divisions as banners and emblems adorned the processional scene. The event highlighted school pride and formal ceremony within the division banners.
A self contained phonograph small enough for a waistcoat pocket is described by a Kungarian engineer. The compact device promises portable sound playback for personal use.
A Boston Transcript item critiques a self-seeking individual who deceives others and himself, detailing how his actions reveal vanity and self-interest in a public context.
A pithy Boston Tip piece notes that aging brings a tempered view of friends disappointments, urging acceptance with philosophy as years pass.
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