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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1927
Page
6
A frost tonight is predicted with speculation on severity. Cover flowers and vegetables. if shoe soles wear thin, resole them at George’s, who offers neat factory quality work and prompt service at A. E. Atchison Florsheims Arch-Preservers Ladies' Hosiery.
A clerical piece discusses store staff smiling, condemning forced artificial smiles while praising natural cordiality. It emphasizes courtesy, earnestness, and avoiding distraction, noting genuine warmth over performative grins.
ERA Wehr of Seattle visits sister near Conesville and meets old friend Sherm Welch in Washington. Onur Hatchery opens each morning 9 to 12 for poultry inquiries as hatching season approaches. Charles Griffin and family visit Clem Mason home in Macomb NL. Public sale of household goods at warehouse by City Water Works Thursday at 10:00. My piano tuner is here phone 180 HH Stephens
D F Macon auctioneer to sell one lot of household goods at the warehouse near the water works Thursday morning at ten o clock. Washington Motor Co advertises 183 plate battery now ten dollars and old batteries replaced. Mrs William Dawson returned from Keota where she visited the Dawson home. Smouse sale next Monday September 26 features 70 anchor and several hundred live ports at 4 miles northeast at 2 o'clock.
Davenport congressman Floyd Letts, born in the county, will be the principal speaker at the Bethel Presbyterian fall festival near town. The two day event includes sports, farm exhibit, Shields orchestra, a motion picture, and a program featuring Letts’s address on Friday afternoon.
Native hedge posts are to be sold near Bethel church on Monday September 26 at 2 oclock. Win Smouse is listed. The entry references a 1863 date.
Sale of household goods at the warehouse near water works Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Pp J Ross Col DF Macon, auctioneer.
The notice advertises a sale next Monday at 2 o'clock near Bethel church nine and six miles north east of Washington for anchor hedge and line-fence posts. Miss Elizabeth Fisher leaves this morning for Washington D C to continue work in Senator Smith W Brookhart's office, after a month of vacation here since the senator went to Washington.
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