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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1925
Page
4
A community gathering in the Y building brought farmers and townspeople together. Speakers Pleper and Jones outlined farming hardships and the need for tighter farmer organization to protect livelihoods, urging more joint meetings to share views and angles on local issues.
A humorous verse about a boastful friend who endlessly praises his punk sedan and its feats. The speaker notes the man’s vanity despite his worldly riches, preferring to boast of cars, trophies, and trips rather than personal merits, while avoiding real humility. He follows the speaker, spouting car lore.
People discuss trying to meet occasionally to understand one another better and give each other a chance to listen and learn. The note emphasizes open dialogue and patience in building rapport.
John Matthews is praised for steady achievement as he advances to the state oratorical contest. The article emphasizes talent, industry, ambition, and scholarship as the path to recognition, noting there is no lottery in earning such honors.
Gene Breitenbach brother of George and son of Mr and Mrs Gene Breitenbach earned a Harvard scholarship for work done at Grinnell college. The article praises character scholarship athletics industry and ambition as leading to honorable distinction and predicts a Harvard education to complete his collegiate training.
A reflection on riches by Sir William Temple notes leisure and solitude breed fatigue of the mind. Most wealthy individuals avoid isolation, seeking social activity and business engagement to counter self weariness.
Angered by stalled municipal voting rights and a broken promise, Italian suffragists launch a vigorous campaign to sway public opinion. They denounce Mussolini's government stance, warn Italy risks being last to grant the vote, and flood officials with letters while public debate rages.
The tale centers on May who breaks an engagement after a festive New Year event at the Fox Theatre. Amid uproar and crowd rejoicing she faces heartache and a new romance as actors McAvoy Marie Prevost and Ronald Colman star in a Gilbert Emery Broadway adaptation with Frances Marion script.
Mrs. C. C. Faiman, wife of the president of the National University of Science in Chicago, is being questioned by police after her husband confessed supplying typhoid germs to inoculate his foster son, William McClintock, an orphan millionaire.
Local readers discuss coping with influenza symptoms while debating when to plant potatoes and whether to wait for Good Friday. The note ends with a plea for assistance and a playful push to call the fire wagon for help.
Report of a strange street exchange where a passerby notices a swollen neck on Maynard Crown. The men debate whether to mention the condition, risking rumors and mistaken conclusions.
Readable odds and ends mix moral quips with social norms and humor. The collection includes a poem on kindness, a jab at war funding, a mock romance line, a prank anecdote with an elephant, and a joke about a divorce case reflecting era attitudes.
An angry exchange unfolds as a house head confronts a decorator about a wall paper choice. The decorator cites the wife as the decision maker, prompting the head to question ownership and guidance.
A solitary man in a late hour staggers toward a concrete lamp-post. He tests the rough surface for support then paces around it with his hands on the post. Despair grows as he sinks to the pavement and cries out that he is walled in.
A brief childhood mishap reports Little Billy Brown coming too close to his father's cigarette the other evening and sustaining a minor burn while calling for his mother.
Fragmentary remarks depict social pressures on women in beauty parlors. The text likens fashion trends to hidden suspicions and hints at a prevailing mistrust toward appearances and reputation in a constrained social setting.
A fragmented verse fragment questions beauty and passion and shows a man aging after thirty who wraps small bills on the outside of his roll in unclear context
Notice to the public from Dr J L Cooper informing readers that a price advantage in veterinary or medical service will soon end. He urges readers to send in their choice case at the six dollar rate, with the office at Prof Tisdale's home on East Fourth Street in Rison Arkansas.
A jumble of quips and cartoons joke about romance, errands, and everyday folly. A playful voice riffs on Cupid, hats, taxes, cars, telephones, and science while dodging sharp punch lines about marriages, weights, and temper.
A man asks about a head cut from his drunken friend who replies that he must have bitten himself. The banter ends with confusion over how someone could bite themselves.
A jumble of short items includes a letter to A M A Headquarters about removing a tattooed arm, notes on ethyl gas boosting mileage, a cartoonish line about snipping an ear, a quip on women and elephants, and Abe Martin’s comment on love and exclusivity.
John Hays Hammond, eminent engineer and economic authority, warned at an Economic Club banquet in New York that the United States would gain no profit from developing trade with Soviet Russia. He argued the Soviet regime is an enemy of modern civilization and unlikely to attract foreign capital, noting the Soviets aim to destroy the bourgeois middle class that supports industrial growth.
Dr and Mrs N J Lease visited their Milton farm, teachers attended a Muscatine convention, Mrs Adams and Mrs Leota Davidson stayed in Olds for the week. A Care-Away Circle Kensington met with luncheon, Arlene Cunningham visited, Egypt moving pictures shown by Fee couple at United Presbyterian church.
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