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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1921
Page
4
A humorous poem cataloging the woes of paying rent. The speaker laments landlords who seize rent and leave tenants with nothing, noting the dream of a modest home upheld by simple living and contentment beneath a humble vine and tree. The verse contrasts serf-like rent burdens with rustic contentment.
The piece argues drowning is preventable with swimming lessons. It notes 90 percent of victims are non swimmers, cites capsizes and shipwrecks, and promotes year round public pools in cities like Chicago with cheap or free instruction as an insurance policy for life and health.
Reports indicate continued improvement in general conditions with railroads posting higher earnings and rising employment. Export activity edges up, European markets show revival, and coal strike effects fade. Cotton tobacco and potatoes remain short due to reduced acreage, while July prices rose. disarmament talks spark optimism for lower war costs.
The piece notes strong international support for disarmament with France wary of German aggression. It cites high unemployment in the United States around 5,135,000, expects tariff and revenue laws to absorb surplus labor, and observes gradual price realignment and an improving overall economic outlook despite local variability.
A prose piece from George W Stevens in K. W. K.'s Saturday Night offers pithy maxims on greed sincerity sin and love. It urges duty over comfort praising resilience and character while noting wealth and worry. The collection emphasizes faith and hard work as life’s true riches.
Chippewa Indians on Lake Court O Reilles near Wood, Wisconsin predict a very harsh winter. They base forecasts on the thickness of animal pelts, the sturdiness of animal houses, and preparations by wild animals for the season.
Des Moines reports a new citizenship health course stressing daily habits and hygiene. The state adopts a modern health crusade via the Iowa Tuberculosis Association with Miss Theresa Dansdill organizing lectures and teaching outlines for teachers institutes to promote health education nationwide.
The Fox Theatre presents a photoplay Live Wires next Wednesday starring Edna Marshe and Johnnie Walker. Fox elevates their stardom for clever work in Fox productions. Johnnie plays the sympathetic hero in Over the Hills, a Broadway and national long-run hit, while Edna, a Brooklyn-born lead, recently rose with Fox after Dynamite Allen.
The Mercantile Trust Company reports the Hawaiian pineapple pack will total 5,884,000 cases, slightly below last year. California Packing Corporation and Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Ltd. are ahead of last year's pack, aided by abundant school labor reducing costs, with strong demand and stable prices expected for the entire crop.
Mrs. Anita Baldwin and her son halted a European tour in Paris due to high prices, poor sanitation, and uncomfortable travel. She cited roadside inns, unsafe meals, and rough weather, urging Americans to skip Europe for now and return home.
Maxeyse Georgia dealer A J Gillen reports a bedbound woman of three years recovered after one Tanlac bottle and, by the second, began keeping house. by the third she cooked for a family of eight. The testimonial notes may be copied from the Jetter, with Tanlac sold in Washington by Sherman Brothers and Pioneer Drug Store.
A traveler describes a velvet lined case she carried from abroad containing a ornate meerschaum pipe decorated with tossing horses. She notes she bought it as a souvenir, not to smoke, spending about 7 000 francs, regarded as the cheapest item in her purchases.
In Chicago on August 29 the International Rotary clubs chose Los Angeles California as the 1922 convention city after a strong invitation from William Stephens president of the Los Angeles Rotary club. Des Moines Iowa was the only other city to present a formal invitation.
Prof. Charlies McKay reported eight ancient Indian villages identified by pottery fragments bones shells and tools during a four week survey in northwestern Iowa. Villages ranged from one to twenty acres and lay on lakes or streams near Okoboji Milford Little Sioux and Clay county. He shared finds with Lakeside Laboratory director Er. B Wiley and urged Iowa to establish a state archaeological survey.
In a New York Telegram item the line suggests Venus may not have received the golden apple from Adonis. The passage adds that Paris might not have hunted and died by a wild boar, a theory linked by Thasso in the Boston Transcript discussion.
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