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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1920
Page
5
A committee of Iowa mothers club women and college workers will run the women and children's department at the Iowa State Fair. The program includes style shows cooking sewing demonstrations pageants and courses in housekeeping and related subjects.
The city man will receive special attention at this year’s Iowa state fair from August 25 to 38. Industrial exhibits and educational features for business men are arranged as a dedicated department. Farm displays will mirror the state’s prosperity and future outlook.
The Iowa state fair board announces two night expositions joined to the fair program this season. Fancy horses and a large fireworks display titled The Siege of the Dardanelles will be featured nightly, portraying a naval engagement from the World War.
The Hawkeye 2:13 pace at the Iowa state fair on August 30 draws 26 top piters with a $2,500 purse, promising the season’s greatest Midwest event. The Great Western trot offers $2,800 with 23 entries, enhances interest alongside five days of racing and $18,000 added money. Iowa breds join nationally known stables in the state fair card.
A complete boys and girls state fair will run August 25 to September 3 at the Iowa state fair. The fair board offers over 7000 dollars in premiums for youth divisions with special stock judging cooking demonstrations and calf and pig club work. Two large dormitories provide free sleeping accommodations for participants, built by the fair board last season.
Eight bands orchestras and drum corps will provide continuous music at the Iowa State Fair. The program begins at 9 am and runs until the last events of the night show. Notable groups include Thavin's Band International Ballet Fischer's Burlington Band and T Fred Henry's Band. Sunday August 20 is designated Music Day with special sacred concerts from all organizations.
Wilson, famed aviation daredevil, will perform at the Iowa state fair on August 25 and September 3, unveiling a new midair airplane changing routine and wing and tail stunts with two former Army pilots. Ruth Law, renowned aviatrix, joins as nightly illuminated flight attraction and daytime stunts.
Jim returns from France to Bolton and discovers Betty engaged to cousin Betty by mistake. He confronts the truth, confesses his love, and Betty confirms she has always been his girl. The pair embrace, while their dog Sergeant joyfully reunites them.
A diary by Dr. Elmer Evans Edwards, first president of Colorado Agricultural College, recounts his 1846 expenses as a prep student at Asbury College now DePauw University. He notes weekly food costs around 50 cents, lodging and board ranges, and the $82 Plato society initiation as a major outlay, with other frugal items like candles and desk costs.
A clipped exchange signals a broken engagement with Maud and Jack. Maadge declares T will keep them all, reflecting a light tone of social gossip from the period.
New York Aug 18 Otto H Kahn denounces the federal tax system as the root influence of many economic ills and urges reform through a balanced approach. He argues excess surtaxes push capital into tax exempt securities, hamper investment and production, and calls for abolishing or reforming the excess profits tax while retaining a rational progressive income tax and corporate tax.
Paramount Artcraft film Scarlet Days stars Richard Barthelmess as Alvarez based on Joaquin Murrieta. The story unfolds in a mining town during the California gold rush with Rosy Nell and a perilous fight over a murder accusation ending in Alvarez’s sacrifice. Carol Dempster Clarine Seymour and Eugenie Besserer also appear.
Cedar Rapids and Marion raise the street car fare to eight cents and bump motormen pay by ten cents an hour back to May 1. Wages rise twenty percent with a thirty three and a third percent fare increase to offset higher materials and operation costs, says Elmer Allen, general manager.
About 104 members of the street railway men’s union will gain a sixty cents per hour raise. Carpenters, pitmen, machinists and shopmen are also slated to receive increases bringing the total affected to around 200 workers.
The phrase a pitched battle comes from knights era sieges when boiling pitch poured from a wall tank repelled attackers outside castle walls. The term arose as defenders used boiling pitch to deter assault, ending battles as pitch flowed.
This note explains how to rewind a curtain spring by pulling the shade down removing it from fixtures rolling it up and reinstalling it to restore the original spring tension. It warns about potential mistakes like twisting wire hairpins which can complicate the process.
The fragment claims the term hyphenated Americans originated before 1876 when John Boyle O Reilly used it for old time Tory opponents of the nationwide celebration that year.
The city council adopts a tax levy ordinance for the next fiscal year taxing all property within Washington Iowa excluding certain credits. The ordinance specifies separate mill levies in dollars to raise funds totaling estimated amounts for each fund, including figures like 18,886.19 and 2,485.03 dollars for specific purposes.
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