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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1922
Page
6
Editor urges end to luxury spending as the nation allocates 22 billion annually, contrasting with severe needs abroad and at home. Calls for support for Austrian children and critiques tax burdens while highlighting youth activities and community drills in a local program.
Dozen of seventh and eighth graders attended the school yesterday to write essays for the annual contest run by the D A K K. Eighth graders chose William McKinley as their topic while seventh graders wrote on the site of Thomas Edison. Winners will have their essays printed in the Junior Hi Pep after selection.
Russian relief efforts gain momentum as Dunham's Home Room organizes a Wednesday after school sandwich sale. The event raises over ten dollars and sets a solid start for contributions to both Russian and Austrian relief efforts.
On Wednesday April 12 the Scouts hiked to the woods with the Junior Hs left at 5 30 pm. They received two matches to light a fire for cooking their suppers. Scout Lloyd Hill climbed a hickory tree about twenty feet high.
Miss Hay leads a new ensemble featuring Mary Roberts and Caroline McCleery on piano Clifford Brady on cornet James Sexton and Merritt Mitaniel on saxophones Dean Bevins and Owen Rolleau on strings LeRoy Pratt on traps The eighth grade students sang songs and Hurley read Pumpkin Center Hawkeye in a hurried yet clever weekly paper by the circle members.
Judge Max McCall's court sits briefly after noon with many police cases quickly disposed of. The public follows proceedings, with onlookers filling the courtroom. names of punished are not printed. Dean Beavis is building a solid record as defense counsel, with Harold Johnson and William Sloat each defending clients successfully. A new story, The Radio phone by Lloyd Hill, is announced for the next Junior Hi ep.
Local boys move their ball diamond from the road in front of the school to a side street as paving gangs work. The game continues with difficulty keeping hits from neighbors’ gardens and schoolhouse windows.
A playful column by Mark Twain Junior questions teachers' resignations using humorous prompts. The piece weaves imagined dialogue about Spain and Columbus with everyday classroom mishaps and a call for discipline. The tone mimics a light, quippy newspaper humor column.
A jumble of phrases and doodles shows a classroom scene with students and a teacher. The lines reference commands questions counts and misheard sounds. The passage resembles stray OCR notes rather than a coherent event.
Stanhope Iowa April 6 1922 S J Cottington leader of the Co operation Grain Dealers Association of Iowa endorses Clifford Thorne for the U S Senate amid a critical time in Congress after Senator Kenyon's resignation. He praises Thorne on transportation and legal matters and pledges hearty support from Iowa farmers.
Charley Sickafoose withdraws as a candidate for representative citing farm work and family as the main reasons. He praises his six children and places family above office, noting the late season and home duties as decisive factors. The imprint notes the race had been between Sickafoose and Joe Moorhead.
The text credits early Carthaginians with simple paving and the Ronwaus as noted road builders. It mentions John Moucadanm for leading road improvements by stopping reed usage for a method called turtuaendam. It notes wood paving began in Russia and spread to Britain in 186.
A historic note describes how sightless individuals may sense another's presence in darkness. It recounts a test where a totally blind person stood in a near-dark room as an infrared light illuminated their hands, suggesting careful nurturing of inherent perceptual abilities.
The text describes George Washington keeping a diary a year after his marriage recording daily happenings politics and military duties. It notes his attention to weather and agriculture diaries as a detailed social and weather record.
A brief note explains the exact meaning of high noon as noon precisely at 12 o clock, distinguishing it from the hour between twelve and one often called the noon hour. It discusses terminology and usage in period speech.
Josef Konecny Esther Lash and Margaret Gary offered a balanced program at the Graham theatre under the Fortnightly Music Club and American Legion. The crowd, smaller than hoped, responded enthusiastically as Konecny impressed with violin solos and an encore.
The palm tree is revered as a gift of nature and has served humankind for centuries. Its foliage provides shade and materials, while its sap yields date sugar and has been fermented into wine and distilled into brandy comparable to apple, peach, and grape varieties.
Two lights are described as almost essential in a kitchen. One sits between the windows above the sink while another is under the hood over the stove to illuminate the stove top. Proper placement of these two lights minimizes the need for any additional lighting.
Frank Longwell living with his mother Mrs Laura Longwell on West Madison street was seriously injured when driving a harrow team on Wade Gardner farm near Lexington. The frightened team ran away, striking his right leg below the knee, breaking both bones. He was taken to the county hospital for X rays showing a complex fracture.
A detailed model Washington County farm is shown in a new display window at Wilson and Karel lumber yard. The fully built scene includes a barn corn crib garage windmill poultry house fenced lots and a single mule kept in an enclosure. Trees shrubs and a graded road surround the display attracting much attention.
Funeral services are set for Sunday in the Christian church at Brighton for John D. Kisor aged 67 who died yesterday at his Brighton home. Burial will be in Oskaloosa on Monday. He is the father of G. G. Kisor of Washington and all three children Grace of Brichton and F. F. Kieer of California will attend the funeral.
Mrs. John Leeds a Cook's restaurant kitchen worker sustained severe burns after pouring lye into water. The large amount caused an explosion like event, burning one arm and one side of her face and neck. She is expected to recover in a few days.
A humorous street encounter describes a prominent business man self narrating a near meltdown as his hat, monocle, and glasses fall to the sidewalk while he tries to catch his cigars. The mishap ends with the observer noting the comic scene of the man “coming to pieces.”
A garbled clipping notes attire norms for women, mentioning Landen Paliy Mirror and insistence on exquisite dress and perfect shoes as part of a fashionable style standard.
The National Republican weekly political journal offers six weeks free to new readers for ten cents in stamps or currency. Send names and addresses with payment to the Circulation Department at 425 10th St NW Washington DC. Regular yearly price is $1.50. BatHead
The notice describes a home remedy to fix wall cracks using flour, cold water, welling water, alum, and shredded newspaper mixed into a paste. The mixture is stirred until smooth and forced into cracks with a putty knife to create a bevel finish.
The article surveys medieval hair fashions from the Twelfth to Fourteenth centuries with midline parts and tress styling. It notes crowns or chapels worn by both sexes and recalls Venice in 1460s braided hair and Petrarch’s Laura famed for golden hair twisted like a warm braid.
A garbled OCR passage lists many renditions of a man named John Smith in Italian French Russian Polish Dutch Greek Spanish and Turkish forms. It purports to show how the same person is called Jo hones Scvtthus Gievannal Smithl Jene Sineet Ivan Smittiwelski Jiben Setusidd Hone Setnohlt leu Silkten Juan Soithus and You See.
A Chicago Tribune item recounts a child named Madeline at lunch asking for more meat but not wanting it wrapped up, remarking during a sandwich moment last Saturday.
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