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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1925
Page
7
London reports show marriages per thousand people in England and Wales similar to 1923 while births fell to 18.2 per thousand, the lowest since WWI except for wartime years. Registrar general data give 730,286 births and 473,270 deaths, with natural population rise around 250,000 despite emigration pressures.
The text notes Britain's population grew by over 2 million since before the war and the workforce expanded, yet about 1,250,900 remain unemployed. This has led to claims that unemployment is chronic in Great Britain. Death and infant mortality rates were also slightly higher than in 1923.
Sweden plans a busy season with Americans and other nationals attending events in Gothenburg and Stockholm. The eighth annual Gothenburg industrial exhibit runs May 4 to 10 to showcase Swedish crafts and commerce to foreign visitors. The Baltic Trade Fair in Stockholm follows in June with invited nations around the Baltic Sea. The Universal Conference on Christian Life and Work comes to Stockholm in August with about 150 U.S. delegates and broad European, Indian, and Far East participation. Visby Cathedral marks its 700th anniversary in July as American athletes take part in international games at Stockholm stadium.
A letter depicts starving soldiers and poverty struck officers, condemns politicians, and presents three grim paths for the army including self destruction, resisting revolution, or seizing power by removing current leaders and installing Portuguese citizens. The rhetoric urges decisive action amid upheaval.
At the Iowa Presbytery gathering in Brooklyn R C McCleary was named commissioner to both the synod and the general assembly. The Brightonian literary society of the high school schedules a program in the auditorium Friday. The high school boys baseball team beat a town team 5 to 3 after school yesterday and will travel to Pleasant View Friday for a game. Mr and Mrs Roy Schneider plan to move to Mt Pleasant.
A March 21 letter from Portuguese Army Captain Jose de Barros Norfolk warns that the army would remain passive during a nationwide uprising, becoming active only if faced with a popular insurrection and a dying nation in the context of Lisbon.
A fragment describes two English teachers who discuss negatives. One proposed to her and she answered no not. The man then crushes her to his chest and rushes off to buy the license. The text uses flawed logic to claim two negatives make a positive.
A garbled passage discusses human qualities and the idea that people will find obstacles to avoid trouble. It references persisting through effort toward success and the potential for obstacles to hinder progress. No clear events, dates, or named entities are present.
A Civil War siege at Allatoona Pass in northern Georgia highlights the defense of a key fortification held by General Corse. Hood’s forces pursued, Sherman moved toward Atlanta, and the stand inspired the hymn Hold the Fort later popularized by Philip Bliss.
The text notes that drum music used by a hired player near laborers in Korea motivates workers to exert more effort and march onward with less fatigue, likening drum beats to military marching songs that strengthen labor performance.
The piece traces how lomp once signified a procession and came to imply splendor. It explains that pompous, once a strong word, now often insults by implying mere show without substance.
London notes highwayman capes from King George era return to fashion this spring. Capes, long and scallop edged, dominate, inspired by Dick Turpin and 19th century outlaws. Society figure Miss Avan Bodley follows trend with a cape worn over a coat and green dress.
More than four hundred Oxford residents including the vice chancellor and 23 heads of colleges sign a memorial urging the British share of the Boxer Indemnity Fund be spent only on educational and medical work in China. They oppose bringing more Chinese students to English universities.
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