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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1920
Page
8
Mr and Mrs A C Behrens and late son Charles Young and Mr George Wiley of Waterloo are visiting at the U S Young home. Mrs Behrens is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Young and Mr Wiley, brother of Mrs Young. Behrens family plans to go to California later this month to spend winter there and may settle permanently.
Evienne Couilhiard and Anne Hebert were married in Quebec City in 1817, the first Christian nuptial ceremony recorded in Canada, nine years after Quebec’s founding by Champlain.
Report calls for clothing and furniture to aid the needy city residents. Many activities include jail and hospital work street work house to house visiting mission and church outreach with Major and Mrs Sheath in charge at 101% N Marion Ave phone 417 Groen kl 9-28.
A fragmentary reminiscence describes Si Simlin keeping a wagon heavy to prevent anyone from walking away, causing the mule to become feeble and die. The tale labels the mule's death as a result of kindhearted but misguided actions.
A jumble of notices lists taxi services, shoe shop deals, sewing machine repairs, and local visits. Mrs Mark Pratt and Henry Little tour Blue Grass via Davenport to see Mrs Chas Aikings. Various residents travel to Des Moines Keota Ottumwa and Des Moines for fairs visits and shopping.
A series of short items notes travels and visits by residents of Cleveland and nearby areas. Mrs L Weaseo and Mr and Mrs Henry Jones of Cleveland left for Iowa City to visit relatives and will return home later. Beasie McGlone visits sister Stella McGlone. Corrine Rothschild leaves for Albia and Lincoln Nebraska then Beresford South Carolina to teach music. C A King of Chicago, former music director, visits town en route home from a western trip. William Sutherland attends Layman's Association in Grinnell. Caleb Lemley to Des Moines for state fair. Water rents due at West Side Drug Store. William and Mrs Quinn welcome daughter Betty Evelyn. Mrs Frank Haney and Lena visit Centerville. Nita Wehr returns to Ainsworth after visiting friends. Joseph Conrad to sing with band on Labor Day. Purina Chicken Chewer advertised by Bruns Seed Store. Mrs Humphrey Richards and daughter M W Jones visit Des Moines for state fair. Brunswick phonograph for sale at Belknap Music House.
Local 760 will meet this evening at 7 30 with very urgent business to be transacted. It is important that all members be present. Signed Lloyd Moothart.
Two planes carrying whisky landed at a small town near Omaha and a third delivered cargo east of Council Bluffs. A car driven by two girls prompted the raid, leaving the car and suspects captured as police prepare to mobilize anti aircraft guns across the area.
Boston reports the Irish protest strike reaching the port as three women pickets induce crews aboard the Leyland liner Nitonian to quit loading for London. Union officials deny any authorized walkout by their members.
Fifty were killed and 100 injured when a railway wreck near Ciudad Victoria Tamaulipas disrupted a Sixty-Fifth battalion transport to Guadalajara. Among the dead and injured were two women and three children from Tampico and the Burham family visiting Ottumwa, now returning home.
A nervous temperate curate earns sharp rebuke from a senior colleague after a clergy gathering at the bishop's palace. The elder, speaking in brotherly but firm terms, accuses the curate of foolish compliments and urges restraint in conduct.
The entry records key postal milestones in the United States starting with the first street letter boxes in New York and Boston on August 2, 1858. It notes the 1860 congressional act requiring uncalled letters printed on envelopes to be returned to writers and the 1864 launch of money order services. It also mentions the subsequent establishment of an international money order system three years later.
A Chicago Tribune item describes a girl and a friend at a grocery store. The girl negotiates with the grocer over grape portions, seeking a penny’s and then a six‑cent worth, with playful bargaining culminating in the grocer selling grapes.
The director of the mint notes that Congress on April 2, 1792 authorized the production of the ten dollar gold eagle, half and quarter eagles, and the silver dollar, half dollar, quarter dollar, dime, and half dime. It is unclear which denominations were minted first as they were produced around the same time.
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