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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1921
Page
4
The piece argues some chautauqua music is amateurish and overpriced and urges value for money. It praises local singers Carolyn Hamilton and Mrs Hugh McCleery as standout talents amid broader concerns about touring professional groups.
Abe Martin jokes about buying a car cheaply after cold weather and prefers a stealthy burglar to a bore, noting burglars avoid busy times. The quip reflects rural humor and sly wit characteristic of his column.
A humorous poem about law and arson wishes versus obedience. The speaker laments laws that forbid arson while admitting he will obey to avoid jail, noting that while laws bore us, noncompliance makes people crooks and may lead to repeal someday.
A speaker laments misrepresentation by a talent salesman who delivers an amateur instead of a finished act. He urges tighter control and reflects on singing to bring joy, warning that if he sounded like others he would regret his life and seek rest in the earth.
A reflective piece urges motorists to slow at grade crossings. It argues that delaying two or three minutes is minor compared to risking life. It cites passenger urgency and the need for constant awareness over speed to prevent fatal accidents.
Washington August 25 Four United States vocational universities will be opened on cantonment sites across the east middle west south and Pacific coast to train disabled veterans in trades and industries. Colonel Charles R Forbes says the program aims to rehabilitate men into useful citizens with training in masonry architecture plumbing printing engraving carpentry electrical work and agriculture including horticulture animal husbandry dairying forestry and related fields. The first campus to open within ninety days will enroll about 2 000 men. currently roughly 94 000 veterans are in vocational training with 40 000 in trades education.
Aug 25 in Albia Mrs W B Griffin wife of State Agent Griffin faced a gunman who demanded real diamonds. She handed over imitation jewels but drew her revolver and shot the intruder in the shoulder as he pursued her. He fled with two men in a waiting car.
The text outlines a beauty standard for a Japanese woman with straight black hair, a narrow long face, a high forehead centered with a wider lower sides, aiming to mirror the outline of Mount Fuji.
In the District Court of Washington County Iowa Jo Lamp v Alvah Rose et al. a large list of defendants and unknown claimants are named in a suit to quiet and confirm fee simple title to the east thirty seven feet of the west eighty feet of lots fifteen through eighteen in block nineteen original Riverside plat. The petition alleges errors and adverse claims but prays title be forever quieted and defendants barred from any claim. If not answered by noon of the second day of the next term, September 1921, default will be entered and judgment rendered at the courthouse in Washington Iowa.
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