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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1920
Page
6
A vivid catalog contrasts luxury and hardship across distant places from South Seas to Babylon. It promises intimate portraits of elite life and brave frontiers, featuring colorful scenes of romance, power, and social conflict performed by a grand cast.
Community items show residents traveling for weekend visits to Harper Columbus Junction and West Chester. Local businesses advertise taxi service gas station repairs sewing machine service and automobile tires while residents share short visits with relatives and friends in nearby towns.
A jumble of local notes advises using electric or gas room heaters for warmth, with other items noting stone tomatoes for sale by A J Waldschmidt, Sinclair gasoline pricing, and several residents traveling or visiting. Miss Effie Van Sickle visited Washington, Miss Mable Long travels to Keota, and Olive Haney tours Des Moines with her parents. John W Fisher heads to Chicago after vacation at his mother’s home. Homes, schooling, sewing machine service, and family visits populate the week’s small-town news.
Margaret and Helen Hollen of Keithsburg Ill guests at the George Wheelan home Miss Marguerite Wallace left Saturday for Tracr Iowa to resume teaching in public schools All kinds of wood work and blacksmithing at City Feed Yard 17316 Ada Hetlicote wife of a Minnesota visit returns Edith Lewis Liberty Mo visiting her brother Dr S J Lewis Columbus Junction headed to Crawfordsville to teach Axel Anderson and wife home after Taylor Texas visit with sister Mrs Jacobson whom she hasn t seen in twenty years
People travel and visit friends across towns from Ames to Fairfield and Davenport. Mrs B 8S Hill visits Mrs C EB Newman in Keota and plans to Fairfield. Dale Ebner returns after a weekend with Dorothy Sands of Ainsworth. Electric Heaters promote comfort and health products from Iowa Gas and Electric Co. Mrs Geo B French and Paul head to Sandwich Illinois for visits, then Berwick and Monmouth Illinois. Mildred Freshwaters and Bessie Nott return to Fairfield from West Chester. Elizabeth Messersmith moves with daughters Myrtle Agnes to Davenport. Agnes plans to attend business college there.
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