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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1921
Page
4
Mrs. Frank Townley Brown of Chicago leads a push to shield widows from promoters who sell bogus stocks and other securities to inexperienced investors. The effort seeks broad legal protection, noting that workers and professionals across society can fall prey to careful, glittering schemes.
Poem recounts childhood across Canada Kansas and Arizona with harsh climates and wild winds. The narrator remains cheerful despite dangers and distance, praising an ever hopeful mood and singing through trials. He notes no envy for others while continuing to warble days and nights.
Mrs Brown reports studies showing widows lose inheritances to unscrupulous promoters. She describes the Widows League to educate and protect against swindlers with lectures by Chicago lawyers. Iowa has begun tougher stock sale safeguards, but cautions remain that some promoters still mislead the public.
Milo Weaver's team won the championship by 28 to 16 over Wilson's in a high scoring ball game at the Chautauqua fair. Pete Molesworth earned much of the victory with fast pitching as Waymack and Rolce produced key hits. Umpires Rev. A. R. Oates and Supt. W. C. Harding rendered satisfactory calls amid a lively crowd of patrons.
Iowa state printing board awarded contracts for extensive printing and engraving. The Homestead Engraving Co. won engraving and steel die work at a bid 25 percent below standard scale starting Sept 1. A committee visited universities to assess needs and named assistants at three state schools. J W Eishinger reappointed to oversee highway commission printing.
A film joke shows a star instructing his secretary to compute his income tax and hand the results to the director for a letter to be swapped with the note from his wife who elopes with another man in a scene they plan to film. The secretary asks for clarification and the star responds with feigned frustration.
The new salesman reports two orders from Hardnut & Company with one to ship immediately and one to keep in stock. A six-foot saw is noted to run at 636 revolutions per minute.
Des Moines banks show current liabilities at Aug 21 totaling 10.35 million, down from 22.12 million on April 11. One large national bank repaid federal reserve debt. others cut rediscounts. Iowa bankers caution against overextension while noting improved conditions as farm marketing proceeds.
A humorous exchange imagines ancient scribes writing on stone tablets and a boy remarking that breaking the news then would require a crowbar. The father confirms stone tablets were used for writing in old days.
Black opals are often color enhanced but authentic stones have been mined extensively in a small district at the head of the River Darling in northern New South Wales.
An aged Honolulu resident recounts two perilous sea trials. Captain Hodson of a Pacific schooner survived a massive gale when a mast rope snag pinned him aboard and he clung to rigging until rescue seemed lost. The ship weathered the storm and reached port with cargo intact. Another English mariner narrowly escaped a pursuing squadron after a sudden squall in the Indian Ocean.
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