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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 23, 1921

Page

8

Mrs M Van Horn Attends Mrs Walker Funeral

Mrs M Van Horn of Ainsworth attended the funeral yesterday for Mrs Walker, according to local notices.

Mra. M. van Horn Ainsworth Mra Walker Rev. Davis of

Local Social and Classified Snips From Keota and Area

Mrs W C Starr visits Keota to see Mrs Joe Whaley. Five solicitors sought with daily earnings 5 to 10 dollars. Dalton advertises after six for office work at the Chocolate Shop. Mrs Wayne Rash and Mrs Mike Trier shop in Washington. For sale plant peonies contact Stryker. Mrs John Kratz revisits near Ainsworth after Chicago trip. Lecture course tickets available at Graham Opera House Saturday. Mr and Mrs J M Bird of Armstrong BC visiting Harry Shrader family. Mrs Bird and Mrs Shrader are cousins. Practical nursing services offered with obstetrical specialty by Mrs Carrie Rankin Brighton. Mrs Will McCreedy of Haskins visits M G Campbell home.

J. M. Bird Armstrong, British Columbia Harry Shrader Mrs. Bird Mrs. Shrader

Local items and notices from city column

Paul French leaves for City to enter State University medical school. Fire Sale offers many bargains at the Fair Store. Miss Blythe Parker returns to duty after illness. Leroy Jugenheimer halts mall route per physicians. Monuments and sales ads from Neiswanger and others. Families plan automobile trip to Florida via Muscatine Illinois and toward St Petersburg.

Paul French Long City Medical School The State University

Fair Store Fire Sale Attracts Local Shoppers

Ainsworth residents visit family in New London and West Chester while ads promote the Fair Store Fire Sale and holiday savings. Local businesses like White Way Garage and Lemmon's Drug Store push services and products as townspeople travel for events and repairs.

Washington visitors from Crawfordsville noted in column

Ten years ago today a group of Misses Ina Murphy Josephine Sommer and Mrs Ben Briley and her son Harold with Mrs Marion Neal and Claude McCoy visited Washington from Crawfordsville The item also mentions Neal’s Baby Cough Syrup prepared especially for babies sold in 25 cent bottles.

Ina Murphy Josephine Sommer Ben Briley Harold Marion Neal Claude McCoy Washington Craw Neal

Threaded Rubber Insulation Keeps Batteries Quietly Running

Threaded Rubber Insulation consists of rubber sheets pierced by 196 000 threads that insulate plates and circulate the battery solution. Willard Threaded Rubber Insulation resists acid and shows no signs of splitting, cracking, or perforation, lasting as long as the plates and extending miles of service per dollar. Visit to view a Threaded Rubber Battery inside and out and learn how it saves money.

What Makes Joke Good

The piece argues jokes are serious truth expressed humorously, not mere frivolity. It says good jokes arise from context and necessity, like repartee born by events, and are meaningful because they could not be spoken otherwise.

London Times

Mackerel Schools Span Vast Ocean Patchwork

A description notes schools of mackerel extending half a mile wide and twenty miles long with an estimated one million bare rels of fish in each. The vivid depiction highlights the scale of these pelagic groups.

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