Anti-Saloon League Under Fire In Public Debate
The piece critiques the Anti-Saloon League and its opponents, noting claims from Senator James B. Reed and supporters that the league wields immense, secret funding. It argues the league aims to ban the saloon and questions perceived hypocrisy among its critics while describing its prominent role in the temperance movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anti-Saloon League
James B
Anti- Saloon League
League
United States
Daily lesson on word usage and pronunciation advice
A compact note lists common English errors and mispronunciations. It highlights words like macadam fulcrum and urges learning one new word daily, defining secretive as tending to keep secrets and giving an example.
Prohibition Debate Shapes Moral and Political Divide
The writer praises the Anti-Saloon League stance that the liquor question is a political and moral issue. It argues prohibition is the swiftest path to end the saloon, opposes licensing, and defends league tactics while noting occasional irregularities in vast fundraising efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ioon
Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Saloon Leaguer
League
United States
James B. Reed
I Love the Company of Minorities and Histories
A collage of poems and quips links minority figures from Socrates to Galileo with lines praising their courage and vision. The piece weaves cultural memory, satire on fashion, and a playful classroom exchange, ending with a riddle about anatomy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Chamberlain
Socrates
Guiding Light
Heaven
Bethlehem Hills
Boy
Hisenach
Luther
Deaths and visits mark Kalona notices on summer week
Funeral services for Camille Baber were held in Kalona before burial in Ollie. The 13 year old died of diabetes, living with her aunt and uncle since her mother’s death. Surviving are father Arlo Baber and siblings Carwood Maxine. A shower honored Mrs Louis Hochstetler. visitors included Veril Small and Chas Votruba families. Gerald Teets bought property on Kalona’s west side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalona
Camille Babr
Steigieder
Ollie
Camille
Tion
Arlo Baber
Carwood
Que
Maxine
Ottumwa
W. H. Plank
Louis Hochstetler
Albert Strabla
J. D. Eimen
Stuttgart
Ark
Veril Small
Rock Island
Chas. Votruba
Dean
Richmond
James Sakuline
Minneapolis
Say] Bowman
Alva Stutsman
Tama
Iowa
Gernie Yoder
University Hospital
PD. P
Blisterfoot Jim and Gander Gags Brighten By The Way Box
Viola Brothers Shore presents Blisterfoot Jim jokes and Gander humor snippets. The piece lampoons a hungry By The Way box craving contributions with quips about kisses, manners, and weather. Readers enjoy light verse and comic sayings amid a playful tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anoher
Jim
Viola Brothers
Shore
Advertising and Farmers Opinion Sparks Debate
A humorous critique notes pervasive advertising in daily life from toothpaste to razors and radios. It argues farmers are not objects of pity, counters pessimism, and asserts that progress comes when great men and their wives influence decisions.
Village Wit feature and quotes from Hy Blackmore
A collection of quips and vignettes including garden woes about weeds, remarks on manners and sightlines, comments on signatures and the Declaration of Independence, and a playful note about a close mouthed neighbor. Hy Blackmore is highlighted as the source of the village wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hy Blackmore
Local Social Notes From Seven ty-Six Area
Seventy Six social column lists visits from Thelma Smith and Mabel Fleming to Harper area friends. Lodges nearby hosted gatherings as residents travel from Des Moines Chicago Rochester in Minnesota and Washington to visit kin and thresh. News closes with a death in the Hagis family and local weekend visits to farms and homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelma Smith
Near Harper
Mabel Fleming
Harley Harden
Walter Mayer
Des Moines
Margaret Clarahan
Harper
HW. A. Harden
Lloyd Miller
Chicago
John Powell
C. BE. Henry
Marguerite
South of Washington
J. A. Walker
Near West Chester
Albert Dayton
Clarence Dunshee
New Mexico
Dunshee
Melvin Bell
Frank Pulver
Hailey Harden
Donald Hazist
Will Hagis
Bruce Moore
West Chester
T. O. Nicholson
East Pleasant Plain
Caryl Nicholson
Dayton
Lloyd Hill
Bobby
Washington
Henry Flander
Edd Conrad
Mt Preascot
H. A. Harden
Drove Stage in Early Days Across Plains
Martin White recalls driving a leather sprung stage coach for H O Douglas in 1885 from McCook Nebraska to Oberlin Kansas. He details horses and mules, daily schedules, the Cannon Ball Express, a canyon crossing with Custer era skirmishes, and early Oberlin life including Mrs Rodehaver and Mrs Harvie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mart Whie
Kansas
Nebraska
Mart
Oberlin
Decatur County
J. (Jarvie “Tam
H. O. Douglass
Oberlin House
United States Land Office
Flora Cross
HH. O. Douglas
McCook
Nebbr
Repubblican City
Douglas
Osperlin
Cedar Bluffs
Custer
Cedar ‘Bluffs
H. O. Douglas
Mrs. Harvie
Pythian Sisters Meet Tuesday Evening Regular Session
The Pythian Sisters plan their regular meeting Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock with good attendance desired. The Sheckley-Hotle reunion moved to Tuesday August 28. Methodist Ladies Aid to elect officers at a church meeting Friday at 2 30. Hardscribble picnic set for Saturday August 25 1928 with the play A Hoodoved Coon by local youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pythian Sisters
Methodist Ladies Aid
Hardscribble
Baptist Ladies Social Postponed One Week
Due to a chautauqua the Baptist ladies monthly social is postponed until August 31.
You and I Club Picnic Set for Sunset Park
The You and I club and their families will hold their picnic Sunday at Sunset Park. Please love change of place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
You and I Club
Sunset Park
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HE Evening Journal
Washington, Towa
Washington County
Elder, Siannon & CO
Bruce Cowden
Publishers News Editor
East Main Street
United Press
THE
Ant
James B. ‘Reed
Kansas City
Columbus
Acoffin
Spain
Calileo
Pisa’s
Pisa
Domremy
France
Are
Ely
J Laselles
Viscount Lascelles
Mary
Johnny
Tom Lahey
Pete
Wes
Ches
Mabel Horning
Tom O’flanity
Wellman
Abel
Mollie Tierney
Abe Martin
George Harvey
Gen. Motors
Mallory
Oxford
Colorado
Stetson
Klein Klothing KO
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