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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1923
Page
7
Ainsworth Route 3 traverses Washington and Louisa counties with residents welcoming visitors and trading locally. The narrative lists farmers and homes along the route, notes hospitality, family ties, farm sizes and crops, and recounts local anecdotes including hunting, timber, and a glacial era boulder moved to town square.
A letter bearing only The Best Mother in the World Clarinda Iowa reached Mrs Adelie Hallock in Clarinda Iowa. It was from Dr H H C Hallock Shanghi written on his birthday to his mother. The Penchant mother received the greeting with pride despite the length of voyage. Mrs Hallock is the mother of 11 children, most of whom are ministers.
A compact quotation from Coleridge contrasts beast and devil inside man with angel and God. It suggests the enduring inner struggle between base and noble forces and the hope of conquering the darker side in life.
A London society woman spoils her Pekinese dogs with toys and a special Ut He house so the pets act like children, reflecting a fad where pets receive childlike luxuries as part of their care.
A terse noted line references great men and their final words as wives are away, suggesting a reflection on fate and absence. The fragment hints at themes of mortality, legacy, and domestic distance without specific people or events.
An advertisement extols Kellogg's Bran as a daily aid against constipation and illness, claiming it cleanses the system, freshens breath, improves complexion, and tones the body. It promotes two tablespoons daily, various serving ideas, and availability at grocers and hotels.
Miss Selinda Cummings visits Hex Swan home. Hogs and cattle delivered to Olds by J J Rich BE Eiches and K W Goft. Ira Graber aided Joe Widmer on farm work. Lydia Mast from Wayland visits sister Mrs P L Nickolaus. Kenneth Goff ill with influenza and pneumonia. Neighbors help plow his corn ground including J J Rich and others. Mr and Mrs C Curry visit David Schantz home. Arnold Rinner ships hogs and cattle to Magdaffen Bros Wayland. Fd Widmer and Dan Widmer visit J W Widmer home.
Local residents and families from Wayne County shared Sabbath visits at various homes including the R. W. Carson and John Krantz households. Farm shipments continued with 60 hogs and a carload of cattle sent to Chicago while several relatives traveled and cared for ill kin and noted injuries.
Verdi Apr 27. Oral Long adds to his bee operation as Supervisors acquire more right of way on Primary No. 11 with little opposition. Farmers praise the improved road as the completed project speaks for itself. Seed corn test 95 percent germination. corn not hung shows about 90 percent germination.
The University of Iowa celebrates fifty years since founding America's first permanent education department in 1873. Stanford dean Ellwood Cubberly asserts school heads need elite preparation comparable to city engineers, outlining four areas of superintendent concern and crediting the university regents for creating the department.
The record lists deans and chairmen of the University of Iowa College of Education from 1889 to 1923. Notable moves include W. F. Russell leaving in 1923 to teach international education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Paul Packer appointed dean of the college of education. Packer hails from Salem Iowa and is an alumnus of the University of Iowa.
Corn acreage increases about 20 percent in the area while cattle for feeding are reported scarce in Texas and Arizona.
A live wire press agent tours Europe in Gloria Swanson film Her Gilded Cage at Fox Monday and Tuesday. In Paris a dancer attracts a disguised king, who deposits coins as she is mocked. The agent leverages the scene to promote the dancer and her selfish sister, ending in a thrilling finale.
C Coles Phillips selects Marion Davies among twelve most beautiful women of America amid Neysa McMein controversy. Davies stars as Princess Mary Tudor in When Knighthood Was in Flower, opening at the Fox Theatre Wednesday.
Chas. Jones of Fox stars in The Footlight Ranger recounting a small western town incident where a man billed as an official kindergarten keeper takes charges for children left with him as mothers head to a meeting. Jones notes the line Theodore Roosevelt believed in large families.
The Iowa Weather and Crop Bulletin reports improving conditions with rapid farm work. Spring wheat sowing began, oats near completion in the south, 50 to 75 percent in the center, and new plowing for corn. Gardening and potato planting are widespread. cattle lack grazing, hay shortage seen in some areas, and untreated winter wheat remains healthy except where Hessian fly damaged it. Buds in southern Iowa show slow advance but indicate a possible peach crop.
The nickname frogs was first used for Parisians by courtiers. The Paris streets were so muddy the inhabitants were called Jean Cramuid meaning John Frog while the city bore names Lutetia or Mudinud reflecting its mire.
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