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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1927
Page
7
Radio program guide lists WBAP WFAA WIP WOW stations silent night and WEAF chain notes. KDKA Pittsburgh airs 6:30 concert at 7, then WJZ 7:30 8 times.
An advertisement promotes Meyers Red Fox Poison Ready to use Sure Kill with no fuss. It claims rats will not call again and lists pricing as 86 cents to 75 cents at drug stores.
A dense listing of radio station call signs locations and times for musical performances and programs. Highlights include KOA Denver and KYW Chicago with orchestral and operatic fare, WEAF New York opera and recital blocks, and WGN Chicago with Sam n Henry and music box segments.
A compact page listing diverse notices and local services including a hardware and abstract department, real estate offerings, professional ads for dentists and attorneys, Masonic lodge and related fraternal group meetings, monument maker, and multiple railroad time tables and station arrivals. It also includes details for branch offices and train schedules across several lines with local arrival and departure times.
Radio stations in multiple cities announce schedules with times and groups. Giovanni Trombini, Des Moines ensembles, Sylvania Foresters, Maxwell House soloists, and Hotel Astor dance orchestra are listed among others with 6:15 to 12 times across WGY WJZ WBZ KYW WLS WMAQ WOC WQJ.
Mrs. Madge O Neill national committee woman from Iowa is recovering from gall bladder surgery at St Marys hospital Rochester Minnesota. Her husband Mr O Neill and daughter Mrs Lambert Estle were in Rochester during the operation noted by Columbus Junction correspondent Martha Butler.
Local events include Mayo Brothers performers directing a pageant Americas Unfinished Battles at the United Presbyterian church on the 25th with about sixty volunteers. The Ladies Aid of Cairo Church of God hosts an all day meeting October 20. Rally Day at Columbus City Methodist Church is October 16. Mrs Dwight Woodburn receives treatment in Burlington hospital. Ray Lewis opens a shoe shop in the Griffith barber shop space. Bandview Highs junior class to present Mr Bob in November. Visitation news includes Harry Dowson visiting his mother in Reading. Several residents relocate or travel, with updates on employment, health and school activities.
Sunday gatherings mark the Noble community with visits to the J A Frey home and the Joseph Mast and Tom Holmes households. Mennonite church group ships 109 pounds of bedding to a mission in Montana. Families including Swartzendruber Roth Wenger and Wittmer visit relatives and plan to travel to California and Michigan.
Funeral services were held for Lydia A. Westfall at the Methodist churchaged seventy six with pallbearers six grandsons. Interment followed at Keota cemetery. Nearby notices document John Borden and two Wolfering brothers funerals and Bert Rider's service at Sigourney. Mr. and Mrs. L E Rowley visit Florida, while Pearl Palm returns from Quovilla Ta for a brief home stay.
An eye hospital notes that losing one eye impairs judging the roundness of objects for a time after operation. Over time the eye adapts, and the patient regains ability to discern circular forms. Washington Star reports.
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