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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1924
Page
8
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bailey and their Danville Iowa family spent Sunday with Mrs. J. T. Chadwick, the aunt of Mrs. Bailey, at her home.
An advertisement urges customers to call White Yard Co for exact cost estimates on building projects including garages barns hog houses granaries machine sheds and homes. The message emphasizes clarity and prompt service by phone.
Miss Bernice Brown travels from Washington to Mt. Vernon to enroll at Cornell College. Several short items note shoppers bargains at Phillipe Drug Store and Dougherty Bros. ads. Birth announcement: Shirley Jean Woodford weighed nine pounds, a daughter to Mr and Mrs Ray Woodford of Clay.
Mrs J E Griffin and Marion visit in Brighton. Miss Anne Henderson to Ames for duties at Iowa State College next week. Dougherty Bros advertise blue indigo bib overalls. Irvin Keck arrives from Bowling Green Florida visiting son Carl. White Yard Co promotes lumber cement paint and hardware. Dr Frey calls from Ollie to Washington. Local families gather at Dr A W Clow home for a reunion with Hogue Jaques and Beal relatives present.
Mrs. Howard Crozier visits friends in Columbus Junction while Miss Lou Cunningham and Miss Louise Barnell travel to Davenport for the day. H. T. Carris ships cattle to Chicago. Mrs. Adda Olive visits Muscatine and Mrs. Ella Proudfit Fisher. Nellie Coakley of Peoria visits sister Mrs. A. Pettit and returns home. Mrs. J. D. Glasgow visits Cedar Rapids for social events.
Funeral services for Mrs. J. F. Curran were held Sunday afternoon under the direction of Dr. W. W. Bowers with a quartet including Carl Hedges Jesse Miller and Gladys W. Williams providing music. Pallbearers named were Carl Hedges John Applegate Will Gibson Willis Todd Mert Bickford and J. A. Work. Burial was in Elm Grove cemetery.
Chicago reports a nation wide protest by Roosevelt era progressives against La Follette claiming his candidacy harms democracy aims to deadlock the electoral college and let La Follette name a president. The statement denounces his alignment with the Socialist party and warns of constitutional threats.
Attorney Edward A. Kennedy of Chicago died in a car crash near Indianola while en route to Des Moines. Town attorney W. R. Hart survived. cause of the accident remains unknown.
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