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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1925
Page
4
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Daily reflection quotes Isaiah 1 18 urging redemption for sins. Brief devotional style notes the verse about sins turning white as snow. Emphasizes personal faith and forgiveness in a concise morning meditation.
A reader criticizes a health pamphlet titled How to live for focusing on how to extend life while neglecting why we live. The writer questions the value of a long life without purpose and urges including why questions to study meaning, service, and humanity beyond personal gain.
ABE MARTIN Constable Plum reports the arrest of a bank bandit today for leaving his vehicle running while parked. The piece notes a congressman’s view on his own worth, despite disagreement with him.
Puzzle list shows numerous across and down clues with many misprints and missing picture references. The text mixes numbers, terms, and partial phrases including names like Babe Ruth and various undefined clues across and down.
The Red Cross workers arrive at disaster scenes with calm efficiency. They aid the frightened and injured amid flood and famine, bringing relief, healing, and hope as grim threats loom.
A dense roster lists radio station call signs and programs across U S markets. Entries include orchestras choirs talk events and hours for stations from KFDM WSB WGN WLS and others.
A chaotic column of fragments jokes and notes from a bygone page. References to Jesamine Jessie Mines and a Brocken closet skeleton. Street vignettes include Minneapotin twins and a Des Moines Iowa quip about a long teaching tenure.
A reflective excerpt questions the value of offering reasons or explanations when no clear purpose exists. It argues that insisting on why or how may expose vacuity, suggesting restraint in giving excuses and focusing on practical outcomes instead.
Washington reports 20 million gallons of pre prohibition whiskey are stored under government supervision. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes says the government may buy this whiskey, much guarded in 28 concentration warehouses mainly in Kentucky, with legal manufacture ended since Jan 1 1925 and funds to last about seven more years.
Officials state prescription whiskey consumption runs about 1,750,000 gallons yearly. Pre prohibition stock largely unusable and four year old spirits may be produced to supply medicine as pre Volstead supply runs out. Rum demand is nil and 3,000 barrels on hand may be exported. Haynes calls current liquor in populace infinitely small.
The Maharajah of Alwar has replaced his royal coach with a luxury automobile mounted on a chassis with a wheel base of 178 inches. Experts in the United States Army have devised a vulcanizing method making rubber three times lighter than cork for life preserving aviation suits per Popular Mechanics.
Advertisers showcase a variety of goods and services with special offers and sales throughout the page. Shoppers can expect discounted prices on household items clothing and local services with limited time coupons and local business notices.
The note hints at a crossword puzzle answer with a playful phrase about advertising. It references yesterday's puzzle and points to an ongoing theme of promotion.
Iowa State College born F M Russell Ames, named assistant to the secretary of agriculture William Jardine. Russell, 29, is among the youngest cabinet aides and traces a line of Iowa State graduates serving in high government roles since McKinley era.
A farm awakens to spring as animals and the farmer notice the season's arrival. Mie trese & gtime greet all, the horse and farm family anticipate planting and growth, and animals chatter in springtime voices about appetite and outdoor joys.
A rural humor moment notes a boy asking if the Lord owns a Simple Six car. The father replies with a teasing quote about divine ownership and salvation, reflecting lighthearted farm life humor in Wallace's Farmer.
An old gentleman consoles a crying boy who explains he jammed his fingers in a jam jag. The father had spanked him, but the child insists the jam was to blame and seeks comfort from the passerby.
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