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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1923
Page
5
Mrs Penfield and Mrs Sanders exchange sorrow and self blame over loss and loneliness. Penfield reveals how losing children reshaped her life as a caregiver, finding a gentler happiness in helping handicapped youth. The two women vow renewed friendship and emotional release through giving to others.
Weeks pass as Lettie wrecks the kitchen with a ruined soup stock incident. Mrs Ventfeld obsesses over punishment while Lettie oscillates between guilt and defiant confessions. Mr Wopple provokes Lettie, heightening the family tension in a ongoing struggle over discipline. TO BE CONTINUED.
ABE MARTIN muses on aging, diet, and medical advice for continuing talent, warning against overoptimism in later life. He riffs on diagnos ticians, healthy choices, and the idea of patching up a worn body, interspersed with quips about food, habits, and community welfare.
Plans for a unique eighth grade commencement are underway with varied dress ideas for girls and a plan to include all students. The class song, history, and prophecy are assigned to named students with an advisor, decorations by the seventh grade, and consideration of a short play in place of a formal address. Dates and colors are to be decided at a forthcoming class meeting.
Florence Brookhart was elected as a student council member and will lead during Commencement week. A campus cleanup drive notes scraps found Friday afternoon, reflecting a growing pickup habit. No earthquake occurred. Miss Walker fell while attempting to jump rope.
Sunshine is the beat bar gain you can buy. Get more Sun shine. We have plenty of it now, so get all you can.
Rev McCrory spoke last Wednesday morning on civic duty. He urged every American to give their best to the nation in mind body and spirit.
A school debate over a lively Clean Up Campaign reveals a group of girls who refuse to participate, quipping they are not garbage cans. The phrase draws attention to school spirit and community responsibility in a campus setting.
Clean up campaign under way in school with speeches in every homeroom on Thursday. Student Council passed the measure and set a goal to keep the school clean. Dunham Morrison named service member to teach waste paper box location and promote picking up trash. His committee pursues the plan earnestly.
A Boston Transcript excerpt highlights playful auto ad slogans such as The car with a conscience The motor with a wind The vehicle with vim and The truck that thinks These quips appear in an era punctuation and clever branding.
The Metropolitan Water Board draws London’s daily needs from the Thames and a vast underground lake. It pumps about 100 billion gallons yearly, uses 200 thousand tons of coal annually, and employs 4,000 people with 260 pumping engines, 50 wells, 170 filter beds, and nearly 100 reservoirs. A laboratory tests water quality, with top experts consulted by other countries.
In Nikolaiev district, peasants shield cattle by keeping them inside houses due to rampant cattle theft. Severe cattle shortages push owners to guard each head closely, with high prices prompting protection within homes and family spaces.
An ancient writer describes toads as venomous frogs and claims a bone in a frog that cools boiling water cannot be reheated unless removed. He warns toads infest sage leaves with poison making unwashed sage unsafe. A buried toad in a northern field supposedly stops storms.
Teddy returns from the city describing a large department store and its many floors. A listening lawmate asks if they went away. Teddy replies they stayed in the tiniest room and the room itself went upstairs. The tale blends whimsy with a child's wonder at a magical ascent.
A Columbus Dispatch excerpt notes fragrance appears in many plant parts beyond flowers. Roots hold ginger and iris oils, sandalwood’s fragrance rests in wood, and cinnamon bark scents the air. The text extols nature’s diverse perfumed distribution.
The Protect ive Association warns preventable fire waste in America totals about 495 million dollars annually with incomplete last year the figure rising. 1921 losses from inflammable roof fires reached 26.3 million while fire causes include sparks on roofs and faulty construction. Kansas City data show 464 roof fires early in 1923 and asphalt shingles spared none.
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