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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1920
Page
4
Y M C A notes that Boy Scouts have years of experience and prove popular with younger boys in Washington. The spring troop is led by secretary Mr Huxford and fills its 32 member quota. Additional Scouts require national approval, and a large meeting space is the main need the committee seeks to secure.
A humorous lament on dieting woes and hunger in a crowded flat. The narrator compares himself to others who eat freely while he must endure bland fare like straw and bran. He questions the sanity of weight loss as he frets over a shrinking waistline.
A columnist argues the United States carries about thirty billion dollars in postwar debt with twenty nine billion tied to World War I participation. He notes debt grew from one billion before the war and that per capita burden would be about two hundred dollars if demanded immediately.
ABE MARTIN notes Miss Tawney Apple shows interest in acting. She inherits stage leanings from her father once a veterinarian. The column references Uncle Tom's Cabin and hints at affections not held in high regard.
Dame Holland declares she will not give up the piker whose maiden name was Kaiser Bill. She rejects pleas and insists on the cordwood he is sawing to meet coal shortages and high prices. Old Bill works without pay, sweating to supply fuel while Holland prioritizes him over a cow.
The Hi y Club invites C. Stanchfield of Lansing Michigan to share his six year involvement with Rural Y M C A work in India. He promises a practical Christianity tale. All townspeople are invited to supper and the address with High School pupils urged to attend. Further notice to follow.
One of the county’s top 160 acre farms in Howard County Iowa is for sale with strong land value and fair improvements. Prospective buyers are urged to inspect the land and consider the price offered by the owner. Contact J W Warner at Room 307 Farmers and Merchants Bank Building in Washington Iowa.
The piece recalls a 24 hour Philadelphia to New York mail prediction that earned the predictor mockery as nutty. It notes mail now travels in ninety minutes and muses that eras reshape capability and opinion, implying rapid future changes in travel and finance.
A local column mocks an April hail storm that disrupts planned spring planting. The writer notes hail damage to crops and jokes about mothers guiding children away from barefoot play. The piece comments on Good Friday potato planting and seasonal expectations.
A collage of clipped opinions from Fort Madison Democrat Newton News Marshalltown Times Republican and Sioux City Journal criticizes political ideas about voting churchgoing and women’s influence. The excerpts hint at antiwar cost concerns and debates on suffrage and election influence.
A child visiting a home asks for a toothbrush after seeing one in the bathroom. The young speaker uses the term sweep to describe cleaning teeth, echoing a playful misunderstanding in a Chicago household.
A vaudeville bit in a bookstore features Burkhardt and Roberts exchanging cake jokes. A heckler calls a speaker a fake, prompting punch lines about "dough head" and "cakes." The banter pivots on who is a cake and what cake fits various people.
Corrected timetable entries show westbound and eastbound freight and passenger trains with times for No 12 Express No 80 Freight No 88 Freight and local services. Also listed are lodge meeting dates for Washington Lodge No 26 A F and A M Cyrus Chapter No 13 R A M Bethlehem Commandery No 45 K T and Washington Chapter No 8 C E F S.
A comic exchange asks what cake matches a chiropodist and yields jokes about bunion carpenters and corn cake. The playful dialogue ends with “cream cake” for a pretty milkmaid, as printed in the Evening Journal.
A prominent stock exchange figure famed for gambling on stocks and later turning to philanthropy faced a notorious boast about making enemies. A counterpart mocked him as the biggest thief on the exchange, to which he replied that the insult missed his partner, a remark reported by London Tit-Bits.
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