Fall Festival Closes With Notable Parade And Dog Show
The town wrapped up the Fall Festival with a sizable crowd despite offbeat weather. A representative parade and a popular dog show drew families, while hog exhibitors led by Cy Bush John Foster Lou Morgan and W L Gates impressed attendees with large prize animals. Visitors enjoyed exhibits from baby to pumpkin, horse shoe games, and a merry go round, prompting calls for more such celebrations to bolster community goodwill and local enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cy Bush
John Foster
Lou Morgan
W. L. Gates
Lion Parm by Monte Santa Fe Route in New Mexico
The writer travels through New Mexico noting cooler weather and signs of agriculture amid high valleys and rock formations. He observes a caravan of Indians near the tracks, adobe huts, and railway services as they pass through a landscape of sagebrush and mesas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Madame Tingley
San Diego
Point Loma
Albuquerque
Martin Jensen
New York City
Jensen
Tonto Basin
Leo
Lion
Daily English Lesson on Usage and Vocabulary
A compact note explains common word usage and pronunciation hints for daily lessons. It introduces semblance as today’s word with definitions and an example sentence about order emerging from chaos.
Lions at Gay Farm near Los Angeles Draw Crowds
A visitor recounts a trip to Gay's Lion Farm in El Monte, describing hundreds of lions in varied ages and moods. The piece notes gentle cubs, playful young males, and the owner Mr Gay teaching with kindness while detailing the farm's cinema connections and the lions' diet of horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo
el Monte
California
Los Angeles
Mr. Gay
Lion Farm
Jensen
New York City
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Lee
Gay
Mr. Gav
Clifford Lewis
Fall season chatter and festival wrap remark
The note discusses ongoing events from football to the world series and mentions people listening to band music after the festival. It muses on how many heard a certain phrase and recalls a child asking for more money near a ferris wheel.
Babies Scoring Over Ninety At Festival
The list notes high scorers from the festival with names such as Merle Dwayne Shockley Noble Virginia Jane McLaughlin and others. Each entry includes a street address and a percent score ranging from 90 to 99.1.
Community names and numbers flood a letter page list
A jumble of names addresses and scores is presented, including Kathryn Atchison Geraldine Schoeck Robert Keyser Ruth Applegate Kathryn Hoover Darwin Vacha and many others with mixed street routes towns and numeric values. The piece resembles a reader submission section with scattered personal details and playful anecdotes about scotch and a sheep herder.
Wanted a clerk for foreign exchange at New Jersey bank
A local bank in New Jersey advertised for an experienced foreign exchange clerk at fifteen dollars a week. One applicant boasted elaborate skills and services including multiple languages, shorthand, personal typewriter, and even cleaning the office and supplying workers, with postage costs deducted from salary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank
Tam
Zola
Gorgonzola
Billingsgate
Ceteria
Notable quotes on boxing and self perception
A fragmentary passage recalls Jack in the prize ring with Dempsey and Tunney referenced, a punch and a broken nose described by J W C. It pivots to a reflection on self perception and how others view us versus our own view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dempsey
Tunney
Jack
Gene _ bird
First day name mix up as pupil balks at ABCs
An Ohio first grade teacher asks a pupil his name and learns the boy is Bobbie Hughes who loudly answers he knows only five minutes of school and refuses the ABCs. The anecdote recalls the old fashioned mother who stayed home on Saturday afternoon to guard bread in the oven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deer
Washington
Josefus
Chuch
Joe
Ohio
Bobbie Hughes
Modernized Mother Goose Fight Card
Simple Simon and Tex High Man square off in a flashy scene. Forty bucks is the entry vibe as Old Lazy Man jokes and offers a ticket. Jack and Gene arrive, Jack stumbles without a collar while Gene clings to a crown and a joke about a million dollars. King Tex counts his gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon
Tex High Man
Tex High
Jack
Gene
Washington county baby show brings doctors and mothers together
A county clinic turned a baby show into a health screening event with Mrs Ella Reitan leading the Washington County hospital team. Mothers and nurses aided by dentists and doctors observed babies while some parents endured stress as infants were examined. Eleven childre n mothers shared stories and many attendees praised the cooperative effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Reitan
Washington County Hospital
Washington County
Norris May Seek Money for College
The Rev. J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth Texas, acquitted on a self defense plea for the Dexter E. Chipps killing, may tour nationally to raise funds for Des Moines university, a hub of the fundamentalist Baptist wing. Dr. T. T. Shields announced Norris probable aid at a university meeting.
Waterloo records twenty divorces in three hours
Waterloo in Black Hawk county district court granted twenty decrees of divorce in three hours setting a new county record. The pace averaged one decree every seven and a half minutes as officials weighed the significance of the milestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Black Hawk County
Conference in Session With Dr Norris Speaking
Dr Norris will speak at the conference today and again tomorrow as sessions proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ion
Norris
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the Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
Elder, Shannon & CO
Bruce Cowden
Publishers News
East Main Street
Iowa
United Press
Bible Thought
Merle Dwayne Shockley, Noble
Virginia
Jane McLaughlin
George Caple Bevan
E. 2Nd
Mabel Maxine Hayes
W. Monroe
Theresa Clara Bruty
S. Ave
Kimbal Allen Gates
Eleanor Jane Tucker
S. 38Rd
Russel Lee Kephart
W. Main
Josephus
Kathryn Jane Atchison
S. 3Rd
Geraldine Schoeck
N. Town
Robert Earl Keyser
S. 2Nd
Ruth Eleanor Applegate
Kathryn Anne Hoover
Route E
Darwin Dale Vacha
Patricia Annette Griffith
West Crester
Keith Dorrance Rowe
Wellman H
Louise Honoria Fenton
Mary Colleen Grady
Kalona
Harold Clyde Fink
Bernard Russell Kephart
Virginia Arlene Pringle
W. 5Th
Eugene Mussel Hotle
Donald Martin Hines
Route
Geneva Marie Davison
Brighton R
Theodore Rodney Mayer
Keota
Richard Norton
Wellman
Willis D. Booth
S. Iowa
Capitola
Annette Flynn
West Chester
Virginia Anne Hasty
Thomas Edward Walker
Rute 1
Robert Fred Haven
W. 3Rd
Louis Katherine Humston
Grace Rosalie Munro
Margaret Jean Strum
Brighton
Mary Ardith Jarrard
New Jersey
Abe Martin
Cal
Echo Canyon
Skunk Ridge Country Club
Binkley
King Tex
Phil Weldin
C. H. Gather
R. E. Shannon
Phil Crail
K. Plumly
Orville Elder
W. J. Brooks
Rome Beauty
Northwestern Greening
Ben Davis
York Imperial
Jonathans
Genetius
Delbert Darnell
Chas. Brown
E. V. Price & Co
Chicago
Uts
Dougherty Bros
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