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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1918
Page
8
The page lists Crail's rugs Fox and Dewey shoes Carl Combs butter fat at 58 cents Kiddie Ears Coaster Wagons and more. A County Home event on Saturday Sept 28 features F Beatty selling immune Chester White boars equal to any in the state.
Items from The Fair include bale of tungsten and Mazda bulbs on display and a range of kitchenware. Local residents share visits and travel notes from Brighton to Albia and Crawfordsville, with births and family updates among the day’s notices.
Mrs. James Chandler visits Danville IL daughter Mrs. John Chadwick. Bruce Dill and daughter Mabel travel to Des Moines and Winterset. Mrs. Victor Sodergren and Wesley return to Lockridge after a visit. Mrs. P. H. Bailey leaves Diagonal IA after visiting Will Caldwell. Special price on American Magazine for soldiers and sailors at 20 per year via agent Nita Belle McKeon. The Fair advertises tools and coal hods. Parisian Sage ad claims hair cure from Lemmon's Pharmacy. Mrs. J A Stober visits River Junction and travels to Ottumwa and Conway. County Home boar show on Sept 28 with immune Chester White boars.
Advertises a pocket knife sale at The Fair and notes subscription price increases for Woman’s Home Companion to 2.00 per year after October 1. Mentions individuals Nita Belle McKeon, Miss May Deck, and Mrs. W. A. Farris, with travel and family mentions including Kalona and Corning Iowa.
Mrs. John McConnaughey from Benzonia Michigan arrived last evening and will stay several days with Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Kleese Dr. and Mrs. E R Jenkins and other friends. A former resident she left about eighteen years ago and she is en route to visit her son Dr Ralph McConnaughy in Denison Iowa.
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