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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1922
Page
8
Local notes list numerous residents traveling for visits including Miss Hazel Fulton to Denver and Mr. J. F. E. McCrabbe and Frank Welte visiting in Washington. Communities mention trips to Monmouth Keota Joliet Chicago and Denver with several returning from visits and funerals.
Local residents and visitors are listed with brief notes on trips visits and errands in Washington. Names include Elizabeth Bell Andy Augustine Goode and families, Ina McDowell, Katheryn Sylvester, Eva Shrack, Marjorie Sehulty, and others. Advertisements promote cleaning services and laundry savings, a Dodge touring car for sale, and Pine Row butter customers.
A long list of residents and guests visiting Cone Lake and area homes fills the column. Mr. and Mrs. Wm Bues Mr and Mrs Wise Long and others are reported holidaying at Cone Lake while Miss Minnie Wolfe departs for Chicago and Miss Mae Crone travels to Davenport.
Local residents report visits and returns with family and friends in Oskaloosa, Brighton, Chicago and Des Moines. Events include a mock rainbow wedding at the A M E church, a state university entry for Dale Coffman, and Dr John Shuman leaving for Beirut to join Beirut University as medicine chair.
Birmingham August reports the Southern Baptist convention directing education boards to locate Christian scholars for Bible aligned textbooks and to standardize curricula across 120 southern Baptist colleges. A committee led by W C James and A R Bond seeks writers while a separate Standardization commission, chaired by M B Adams, aims to raise all schools to best modern standards with stronger faculties equipment endowment and increased financial support.
Four Santa Fe shopmen were taken to Keokuk for arraignment on federal injunction violations after deputies said they harassed workers at home and called them scabs. More arrests were anticipated as investigations continued in Fort Madison.
A report notes Africa hosts 43 languages and dialects spoken by Black communities. The article highlights linguistic diversity across the continent and references regional usage without naming specific nations or groups.
A scientific experiment shows the average adult inhales and exhales about 10 000 liters of air in 24 hours, revealing the daily volume of oxygen used by the body.
In Parunia harbor shells grow on submerged trees as part of oyster farming. Trees are planted trunk up in the water for young oysters to cling to. When ready the trees are lifted and moved to new grounds to save labor.
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