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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1930
Page
4
Verse inspiration from Colossians 3 23 24 urges wholehearted service to the Lord. Readers are invited to apply the instruction to daily work and deeds, promising divine reward and inheritance through Christ.
The poem traces generations from great-granddad’s slow mile to a great-great-grandson’s mile high ride, then notes Brazil's law requiring all official cars to use alcohol fuel. The policy aims to popularize alcohol as gasoline shortages loom, despite higher fuel costs, and cites a drop in gasoline prices already.
Los Angeles county leads California with 823 620 motor vehicles in 1929 and accounts for 40 percent of the state's autos. Los Angeles city contains more automobiles than any city in the world. The county's total equals twice Germany's, exceeds France, trails England by 50 000, and surpasses several western states combined.
A proposed toll motorway linking New York and Haven with a 200 million dollar price tag moves through the New York legislature. Governors of New York and Connecticut back the measure. The plan envisions two high speed and two low speed tracks, to be built by the New York and New England Motorways corp, with an eye toward extending to Boston.
Statistics show the number of clergy in 1928 nearly matches 1851 levels while the population nearly doubles since 1861. From 1921 to 1928 the clergy decreased by about 4,700, cautioning that continued loss could lead to extinction in 30 years.
Essay notes ministers' sons equal or exceed other groups in prominent roles. The piece asserts early training shapes achievement, citing examples and implying improved reputations for clergymen's offspring. It mentions Who's Who in America as a source.
A PTA captain warns a boy to avoid neighbors' homes due to contagion fears. He returns claiming the people there have hematiteking, reflecting a world of mixed advice and social pressures. The piece satirizes grown up authority and the quirks of modern life.
A reader recalls a family scare where Marjorie Ginkins was frightened by a jiggle in a dresser door handle. The humorous note features a half-formed tale and a child’s misread moment, ending with a lighthearted aside about ghosts and a shared memory.
At age 11 William J. Marsh Jr of Mitford Conn with brother Charles printed a Hoover biography. A publisher hopes to find a new Daisy Ashford. The piece satirizes campaigns and Prohibition era rhetoric, echoing radio and family table conversations Billy heard. Outlook notes the work reflects enduring political half truths and untruths.
Messrs. C. E. Spangler H. E. Twed dale and W. W. Lesch have been in Pedria the past two weeks where they are sewing on the federal Brand jury.
Charles G. Dawes American ambassador to the court of St James was awarded an honorary doctor of laws by Cambridge alongside figures such as Albert Einstein James Barrie John Galsworthy and John Masefield also honored. The piece notes broader social and economic observations including vacations industrial spending and a Lincoln prediction, with various clipped notes from periodicals.
A fragmentary item notes a Washington Pall Festival plan promising a bigger event and urges attendance at the opening of Washingtons new airport. The text also mentions nominating Frances McCoy for correspondence secretary of the Post Office and a proposed chaperon for the outfit. It references an honorary membership for Harry McCall and a temperance meeting remark.
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