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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
5
Local items highlight Vienna cafe fare and bakery goods. Miss Alice Maxwell’s death prompts family travels to Keokuk. Mrs. Steck and Mrs. Stever visit Fairfield. Crawfordsville visitors pass through Washington. Lectures, tickets, and theater ads mingle with farm mortgage offers and local trades.
Howard L. Rann delivers a humorous treatise on colds describing its degrees and cures. He jokes about sleeping near a hot air register and closing windows. He claims there are over 9 000 known causes and notes cold affects speech and marriages.
Mrs. J A Guest hosts a card party for Miss Winifred Giesler of Muscatine. Mrs. Livingston leads a Second United Presbyterian Sabbath school gathering with a luncheon. Maude and Ethel McCreedy host teachers at their Heights home with contests and a musical program. A birthday party honors William Southwell with a cake and luncheon. Mr. and Mrs. Scranton marry at 726 East Second Street with family presence and plans to host after November 1. Washington Relief Corps ladies tour Kalona for a festive day with dinners, a program, and praise for local talent. Ads include Foley’s Honey and Tar promotion.
A collage of local items includes a theater program at the LYRIC, a fur and hide buyer offering top market prices, lecture tickets to be checked Saturday morning at Lemmon's Pharmacy, a Knights Templar conclave announcement, Bethlehem Commandery meeting, and Bible department gathering at 413 Washington Boulevard.
Mesers, Davis & Davis report several Iowa patents issued this week. Recipients include C Carstens Davenport hoisting apparatus G W Crist Oskaloosa ice cream container M J Frambach and A R Carrington Hartley sanitary closet FP Jungjohann Davenport clutch adjusts T Lynch Jefferson hitching strap N E Mighell Marshalltown surgical appliance M E Packer Rockwell City metallic tie and rail chair H L Sulzbach Sioux City match 8 W M Temple Mason City color printing apparatus.
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