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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1929
Page
4
A devotional note cites Joel 2 12 13 urging turning to the Lord with all heart fasting and mourning. It emphasizes God’s gracious merciful slow to anger and great kindness as the basis for spiritual renewal.
Mrs Quinlan now principal of a four room National City school invites a San Diego visitor to see classes of about 140 Mexican and Spanish students. She trained at Washington Iowa High School Drake Des Moines and state college. The piece notes attendance, flag salutes, marshalling captains and readings, with two hundred lively black eyed children and a blue eyed honor pupil.
A compact word study on prices and worth contrasting low price with dear value. It describes mispronunciations such as envelope envelop accent stress rules and common misspellings like hundred erd and mentions synonyms for ordinary and everyday. It invites daily vocabulary growth by teaching one word per day.
A teacher notes the class, focusing on hair grooming disputes, gum chewing, and bright eyed children. She praises Spanish speaking Stella and the little aunt, as pupils recite in English, sing, and study aloud with affection from Mrs Quinlan. The visit covers progress, manners, and future promise of Mexican American youth.
A satirical miscellany criticizes proposed crim news bans, fashion trends like red flannel petticoats and multiple suits, and random global observations. It notes pacifist and Moscow quirks, comments on agriculture business, and jokes about Palm Beach society beefsteak dinners amid high prices.
A collage of jokes, cartoons and notes mixes satire and humor. Items reference a sermon on the seventeenth chapter of Mark, a misprinted joke, cheeky quips about personalities and politics, a bombed barber shop, and a parachute crash with minor injuries, ending with a prompt to place Journal Want Ads.
A comic Abe Martin quip links the holiday feast in Way Down East to lingering hunger and thirst. A Columbia professor notes college training lowers earnings unless one is a natural born bond salesman.
The body of Lieut Sharpely Gray is found by national guardsmen near underbrush along the flight path after a parachute did not open. Pilot William Wile was involved in the incident, details pending from officials.
A vintage ad-style note urges parents to address a baby's digestion to improve weight gain. It claims souring waste and gas cause colic and constipation, and promotes Fletcher's Castoria with vegetable ingredients as the remedy, asserting safe, gentle relief and better digestion for stronger gain.
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