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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1922
Page
4
A devotional snippet cites Isaiah 60 20 promising the Lord as everlasting light and the end of days of mourning. The passage emphasizes divine presence guiding souls beyond sunset and cycles of night.
A travel memoir recounts returning to Winnipeg from Banff across vast Canadian plains. The author notes long northward agriculture, snow shoes, winter culture, and northern lights that dazzle Winnipeg evenings. He recalls Hudson Bay Company history and Winnipeg’s emergence from trading post to city.
Gran man Bud jokes about a dove while Grandmother settles inside. Mr and Mrs Aaron Shott fear for their newborn daughter who might read a Sunday newspaper and cause trouble.
In this verse dialog Mason contrasts a dour view of life with a cheerful stance. The speaker argues joy can be chosen despite troubles, urging readers to see the world as lively and ripe with lemons or peaches depending on outlook.
From its source to its mouth the Colorado drops few miles yet in places like Gonowd Canyon the channel lies over a mile below surrounding plateaus. The river shaped stark cliffs and ruined settlements. Centuries ago early peoples built irrigation works still visible and respected by engineers today.
A collage of self motivational lines urges readers to act without waiting for the boss and to think for themselves. It contrasts workers who lead with those who follow and includes dialect and vignette snippets about Marcel waves and a sheriff tale.
In a fragmentary exchange a traveler vows to go to Chicago and join a dry goods line while a talkative man queries details. The speaker states a 36 year old married man named Hora tio Brown with a Civil Service son earning thirty a week, his father dead last July, and a living mother. A niece with red hair and a change of cook are noted amid casual banter and an odd final question about tongue oil.
The Mt. Pleasant News notes California's wealth and fame grow from ads and roads. It compares Washington Iowa, which promotes itself as the cleanest town in Iowa, with Mt. Pleasant, arguing advertising may mislead visitors about cleanliness and beauty.
A naturalist divided an aquarium with a clear glass wall placing a bass in one chamber and minnows in the other. The bass slammed the partition each time a minnow neared, delivering bruising blows after three days of fruitless lunging.
A letter from Susie Bristow of Brighton Iowa dated Aug 9 1922 accompanies a check for three months of The Daily Journal. She praises the paper’s improved quality travel letters and the Funny Editor and subscribes based on the By the Way column.
A writer assists Thomp Brookhart and Louis Jones this week to thin the catfish in the Iowa River. They oversee expeditions nightly to drag fish to shore while the writer acts as commissary and distributing agent. The piece laments the loss of trust in fish stories and cites a recent 16 pound yellow cat tale that got away.
The narrator insists a 16 pound trout was on the line, describing eye color and teeth seen before the fish tore the line away. He notes camp life details, pies from Shelly Eberling, and jokes about blankets and cold river bank exercises as they rush to town while warning fish are attacking cattle.
Frank Mayo headlines Universal's new drama Out of the Silent North at the Fox Theatre this Friday. The film showcases majestic northern scenery with towering mountains and silent vastness as a backdrop to Mayo's performance.
Frank Mayo stars as Pierre Baptiste a rugged French Canadian who loves Marcette of the local store. When a refined stranger sways her, Pierre joins a perilous expedition to rescue him and returns wounded yet honored. William Worthington directs a convincing adaptation.
The chief crops in Jugoslavia are wheat corn oats rye and barley. Plums grow exceptionally well and large quantities are made into plum marmalade for export. Thirty thousand people work in silk culture with many engaged in tobacco and extensive stock raising.
A desultory listing shows multiple local passenger and freight trains with numbers 429 449 835 and 87 88, indicating daily or specific day operations. It references H W Russell and passenger trains 23 25 24 26 with times like 6:20 pm and 12:01 pm and states trains operate daily with certain Sundays excluded.
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