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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
8
A collage of local items lists shops, services, travel, and events. Mentions Lyon's cookies Crail's rugs taxi service BEO Newell Davenport visits Chiropractor Lydia Hellam and phone numbers. Gazette includes sales Oct 25th, Miss Connell hats 10 off, Miss Block Muscatine shopping, Keota visits, and Mi O Na stomach tablets ad.
fragments indicate a sale event with a party named G. M. Homble and unclear terms. text mentions a horse collar and a woe at a sale with no clear outcomes or dates. further readable details are insufficient to determine exact actions or participants.
A brief note discusses methods to create diamond and sapphire ore cubes through gramted processes. The item mentions potential observations and expected outcomes in a scientific context.
Arthur Goodin funeral director and Leo Hanlin for auto painting discussed in local notices. Mrs Coulter and son Homer arrive home from St Louis where Homer sought treatment at McClain sanitarium. J Martin White returned from Sioux Falls to visit his brother Sidwell after a serious operation. A leading hairdresser recommends Parisian Sage for dandruff and hair care. Lemmon's Pharmacy advertises the product.
Rothschild, former president of the Washington Advertising Club, was elected vice president of the State Ad Clubs of Iowa at Ottumwa. Washington delegates, including Joe Falk and several others, attended the convention and praised lectures by psychologist Stanley L. Krebs. Des Moines will host next year’s meeting.
An examination for census enumerators will be held in the post office here late next week. James V. Gray of Mt. Pleasant Iowa has filed an application to be considered for the position.
Representative Cordell Hull told the house military affairs committee that Sergeant Alvin C. York cannot work for a living because he is constantly visited. Hull urged York be made a second lieutenant and placed on the army retired list to provide retirement pay and free his time for patriotic duties and public appearances.
Washington reports three masked bandits abducted William C. Jenkins American consular agent at Puebla Mex and held him for 150000 dollars. The state department says Mexico will take steps to secure his release and the embassy may send a staff member to Puebla to assist negotiations.
The piece extols the desert’s vast spaces where miles lose meaning and space feels ilimitable. It envisions distant snow capped peaks as borders of a dowala and a lone observer’s claim to rule without opposition.
Roquefort cheese is described as imported from the village of Sroquefort in Averyren France. It is said to be made from goat and sheep milk and aged in rocky Larac cliff caves. The prediction of this cheese is erroneous though the pollution of the village is about 1,000.
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