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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1919
Page
8
Community snippets show local business mentions from Lyon including Fox and Dewey for shoes Taxi service and watch repair at Smith West Side. visits by residents Fronia Lamphere Mrs. Humphrey Richards and others. Also notes marriage license Carroll Deeds Emil Druckenbrod and Henry Foster’s illness, plus New York Store selling ready to wear and blankets.
A farm offers second growth timber for giveaway. Local residents visit family in Illinois and Ohio. Obituaries trigger travel to Delta for J. P. Randall's funeral. Satine silk market promotions appear. A university president visits Drake area, with talk in Keota. Readers share a moon cross phenomenon and notes on eye tests and northern lights.
Mr and Mrs L A Caldwell of Ainsworth visit friends in town. E R Stephens of Ainsworth, ex county supervisor, is in town on business. Wanted second hand peach baskets ten cents each with lids. Wetson Chalmers Production Co No 422 BE 3rd St. Office now open newly equipped rooms 2nd floor FP and M Bank Building resume practice in Washington. Phone number 66 shared waiting room with Dr A J Droz Dr J B Edington S412.
A reflective note argues reverence elevates human conduct while its feeling is dismissed as degrading by the vulgar mind, urging readers to cherish humility and moral seriousness in daily life.
A mother tells her son the new jam is bad to discourage him. Jimmy then shelves questions by pantry, smeared with jam, admitting he ate it to avoid waste after reasoning poodles dislike jam and nothing should be wasted.
A phonograph stylus made from vegetable ivory lasts six records before wear makes it unusable. After filing the bevel end, it can be reused for six more plays. The ivory is sourced from a Central and South American plant, phytelis plus pala, which yields large weed clusters.
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