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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1925
Page
7
Wayne April 17 notes dense with community items including new Ford touring car, visits to and from Davenport Muscatine and Washington, school superintendent change at Ainsworth with Delaney appointed, plus home improvements, travel to Detroit for J K Davis, birthday party with cakes and pupil program, and calls for local celebration planning.
Dublin notes show several farmers plowing with some near completion. Hugh and Will Wolfer tiling for Charley Meyers. Miss Pearl Robertson returns from work at A F E Strums. Mr and Mrs James Corpenine visit Washington. C E Hillis and family call in. LeRoy Tines absent from school due to illness. A F Strum family Sunday visit to Doe Eagles. Mrs Frank Jermeman of St Louis visits Glen Little family. jeo Wolfe assists Zeno Tines on farm. jeo Wrights visit Roscoe Robertson. Effie Van Sickle closes Center school Friday.
Neighbors report visitors and dances with John O'Brian and William Miller Jr listed among attendees. Local farmers celebrate a good spring with plowing, early potato planting, and thriving poultry herds including white Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds. The Womens Catholic Order of Foresters installed officers with detailed roles and a luncheon followed.
Riverside April 18 wedding of Misa Regina Dalton and Paul Mottet held in Iowa City with John Knittel R A Knittel John Mot tet and Phillip Kneisel among attendees. Civil War veteran Thomas Sims celebrated his 80th birthday with family. Ben Kroes visited from Fort Madison. Clarence Thomann welcomed a baby girl born April 11. Mary Hanson and Alice McMahon returned to Mt. St. area.
Henry Luers serves on a federal Davenport jury while Arthur Meyer rides with his dog in the front seat of his car in Wells ton. Easter at Hannah Luithly’s home and Miss Lechner’s illness suspend school. Twenty and gardening topics mingle with family notes.
Canned whale meat has become an established commodity among the Negroes of the West Coast of Africa where the entire 1923 pack of British Columbia was sold.
A collage of comical items and odd claims from 1925 headlines. References include Babe Ruth fainting in a car wash, Henry Ford aviation, a warm Prince of Wales welcome in Africa, theft in Louisville, a New Yorker wedding wager, and jokes about taxis and postage.
A condensed overview recounts the Alamo siege of 1836 with Davy Crockett and others, noting its defenders’ heroic stand and the battle cry "Remember the Alamo" tied to Texas history and a monument in Austin. It also briefly mentions Australian voting fines and chestnut blight threats to native trees.
In a few years northern Alberta may see a cross bred buffalo cow population, animals tested to endure winter conditions. Americans also pursue imitation pearls from fish scales. A University of Chicago professor and a New York engineer have ascended eight British Columbia mountains, with one unnamed peak among Canada's tallest in the Northwest.
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