Post Office Transit Notice From Washington Indiana
Entry indicates material entered at the Washington Indiana post office for transportation through the mails as second class matter.
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Newspaper
Washington Washington Democrat
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1946
Page
2
Entry indicates material entered at the Washington Indiana post office for transportation through the mails as second class matter.
Community notices include revival services at Elnora Pilgrim Holiness church led by Rev Thomas Holhouser and music by Misses Mary Kirk Barbara Miller Fern McHenry with pianist Mrs Ray Overmeyer. Friendly Neighbor Club hosts June 2 gathering at Mrs James Quilliam’s home. Birth announced for Emma Lynn Hardesty in De County Hospital. Sharon Lynn, daughter of Virginia Phillips, born June 1. Various visits and personal notices from Elnora and nearby towns.
Sgt. James R. and Staff Sgt. John W. Mattingly, sons of Homer and family at 1005 E. Main St., recently spent a weekend together in Germany while stationed with the 27th Constabulary Squadron. A letter from a pal describes visiting Hitler's mountain hideout, a tunnel, a palace elevator, and dining at a rest center after touring the site.
Riley Hospital reports outcome today of a procedure to restore sight for 11 year old Jimmie Hart of LaGrange. The boy who was blind in one eye suddenly became totally blind during a game of cowboys and Indians. Physicians diagnosed retinal detachment.
Ampr 139 sets dollar ceiling prices for all used household mechanical refrigerators sold or rented by any person. Dealers and individuals must issue a written sales clip or receipt noting condition ages or reconditioned, guarantee length, sale date, make model year and number, price, any extra charges, and purchaser name and address. Auctions fall under ceiling prices based on model features condition and guarantee.
Fires damaged three Chicago apartment buildings late yesterday forcing 44 tenants from their homes. At 321-27 No Kedzie Ave a rear stairway fire destroyed 15 apartments, with $2,000 in damage. On South Wood Street, a rear porch blaze at 3618 spread to 3620, with 24 residents displaced and $1,600 in damage. Battalion Chief John Burke suggested matches may have started the Wood Street fire.
Local church class and guests enjoyed a picnic at Eastside Park Washington with many named residents in attendance. The Plainville Friendly Circle and Worthwhile Home Economics clubs met at local homes with programs on Let Me Call You Sweetheart and Window Treatment, prize contests, and refreshments. Personal notices list several visitors and relatives from Indiana Washington Mobile and New York. A note concludes with a historical sentence about Venice and the Fourth Crusade ending in 1204.
Brief notice notes Mrs William Henry Harrison, wife of the ninth U S president, is described as the daughter of Col John Cleves Symmes a Continental Congress delegate and Revolutionary War soldier who also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Try a Democrat Want Ad.
Indiana shows The Cat Creeps with Lois Collier and Paul Kelly at 7:00 and 8:30. Liberty adds Betty Hutton in The Stork Club at 7:00 and 9:00 tonight. Also listed are These Three with Merle Oberon Joel McCrea Miriam Hopkins at Liberty later dates.
Housewives stranded by flood waters from the Susquehanna River were rescued by Navy patrols. The rescuers loaded the women into water craft called weasels and ferried them to grocery stores for safety and supplies.
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