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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1920
Page
8
AFlurry of fall events and errands fills the page including Fox and Dewey shoe sale notes and courtesy guarantees. A. E. Putnam travels to California, while Mrs. Clifford Thorne and daughter head to Chicago. Numerous locals listed for sales, relocations, visits, and a Duroc sale announced for Wednesday evening.
Community notices list a rummage sale at the Fred Stewart room near the Christian Science chapels Saturday morning. Several residents report visiting relatives in town and returning home, including Mrs. Tom Grecian and Frankie of Richland and John Tipton of Pawnee, Oklahoma. Local ads promote sweaters, pears, and Sixes nursery items, with travel notes about Alma H. Holland and Evelyn Turner. Also listed are a 130 acre farm for rent and a medicinal product promotion for Mi O Na tablets and Parisian Sage hair care.
Amos Keller visits Clarinda to see his daughter Mrs Elmer Finley and Winnie Meyers of Keota visits Washington. Keota residents Rose Goldner and Faye Brown figure in city postings. Local stock ads urge Cuauhtemoc stock and Bitro-Phosphate endorsements. Central Manager Bradley’s Omaha transfer and driver Gary McGugin’s Chicago trip noted.
Creditors of the Overland-Washington Co. are directed to call at temporary headquarters first door south of the Democrat office to settle accounts.
Park Commissioners urge boys and girls to share playground privileges and use polite language. They remind residents to follow the Golden Rule and uphold the city as the cleanest in the state, asking all to keep actions and speech clean.
All those indebted to the Over land Washington Co. are asked to call at the temporary headquarters first door south of the Democrat office to settle their accounts.
At Toledo during the Tama county fair a young woman snake charmer was bitten several times on the hand by a large black diamond rattler. The snake had just arrived for the side show and had never been shown before. An assistant handed the wrong snake, and a local physician gave quick aid that likely saved her life.
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