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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1928
Page
4
The article argues that common sense favors prohibition by weighing health, economic, and social harms of drink. It cites Adam Bruce Barton and Mark Sullivan voicing cautious support for dryness, noting government overreach concerns and a preference to let states decide.
A group travels from Iowa City to West Branch to see Herbert Hoover in his boyhood town. Police block the road and scouts guide cars to a nearby field where several vehicles are parked, forcing a long uphill walk with lunch baskets and cameras.
The author describes Hoover's arrival by train at West Branch Iowa, a large cheering crowd, and a breakfast at the home where Hoover was born. The day features bands from Tipton, Cedar Rapids, and local towns, plus speeches, a big tent meeting, and a radio broadcast of Hoover’s speech. The town provides ample amenities and orderly crowds.
A column titled The Old Plug offers witty maxims and quips about life. It contrasts state fair thrills with everyday folly, noting travel, luck, and the quirks of human nature with humor and irony.
A quirky humor column mixed with jokes and anecdotes from SKEEZIX. An editor style piece references readers and advertising, with lines about bank ads, cashiers, and humorous definitions. Includes a prison scene of an old swindler and a joke exchange about abstract versus concrete and mule temperaments.
A fragmentary verse sketch recounts Blisterfoot Jim smoking cigars and a woman giving a nickel, a deacon passing the hat, and a prayerful scene at home as a church effort stalls while a girl chews gum and a man smokes.
A license was issued for the marriage of Ebenezer Sweet and Jane Lemon. A correspondent trimmed with verse notes the union, joking that Jane is now Sweet and Eb becomes a lemon squeezer, reflecting playful local wit.
Four passengers and two pilots aboard a Ford monoplane are missing after a flight from Victoria Canada to Seattle Washington. Oil slicks and a reported splash in fog over the Juan de Fuca Strait suggest a crash as searchers probe the waters. The listed travelers include Mr and Mrs A M Scott Victoria Dr D B Halden England Thomas E Lake Seattle Harold Walker Seattle and Leonard Carson Victoria.
Broadcast listings for WEAF and WJZ networks noting Lewisohn Stadium sketch from WJZ at 6 30 CST and Grieg program at 6 15 CST plus WOR Newark 422 listing and WBAL Baltimore municipal band at 8 CST with Main Street sketches and other feature slots for the day.
Twenty five Junior naval encampment boys stranded along Ron dout creek for over half a day were saved when tow lines were thrown across the flood and they reached the mainland. They were in good condition, sheltered by farmer Thomas Krisic’s home as the creek remained dangerous and high on August 27.
Ned Sparks, famed for his poker face, is cast as Ted American in Paris in Florence Vidtor's The Magnificent Flirt at the Fox Theatre. The article recalls Sparks’s onstage near-death fire in Alaska, his vaudeville and Orpheum circuit career, and recent film work with Douglas MacLean Constance Talmadge and Richard Barthelmess including Sporting Goods at Paramount.
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