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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1931
Page
4
A reader recalls a humorous moment centered on Helen Jean Bishop who will still receive a half dollar. The exchange notes the lighthearted tone as the writer shares personal embarrassment and responses to the situation.
In a dramatic account from Grit, Australia, a speaker recalls waking at night surprised by his own cowardice and witnessing the misery of sick women and crying children. He describes a turning moment at prayer when he vows to combat drunkenness with grace, courage, and loving aid.
A Bible Thought reflecting on Ezekiel 34 3 to bind and guide scattered sheep. The Lord promises to seek out and deliver his people from places of dispersion, emphasizing restoration through divine care.
The priest and temperance reformer Father Mathew witness the ruin caused by drink in Cork Ireland. He rescued a drunken breadwinner and, moved by poverty and decay, vowed in prayer to devote himself to fighting the great curse of alcohol.
The piece outlines daily vocab notes on words like RAUCOUS PETULANT and ADJUDGE. It highlights pronunciation pitfalls misspellings and usage guidance with brief examples and a recurring reminder to grow vocabulary through daily word study.
A community group attended the Eldon Fair where a 2:20 trotting race stirred excitement and a fainting moment occurred before the start. The column mixes miscellany from Sage quotes to local humor about marriage, politics, and Iowa life with a note on the Iowa State Fair and Don Bell of Indianola reporting on placard campaigns.
Baxter of St. Louis left yesterday for his home after visiting relatives here. The document lists rules, divisions and prize amounts for the 6th Annual Washington Fall Festival Farm Products Show, including livestock and poultry entries, judging times, and entry locations.
The review praises the film as delightful entertainment with romance Viennese music and Lubitsch’s deft direction. Chevalier Colbert Hopkins star in a witty romantic comedy that drew wild audience applause and laughter. The Smiling Lieutenant plays at the State next Monday Tuesday and Wednesday.
Victor Schertzinger argues that Glorifying beauty is a science in The Woman Between a Radio Pictures feature opening at Fox theater Monday and Tuesday. He emphasizes combining aesthetics with allure through costume and advanced photography and selects beauties by face form and personality in a sophisticated tale of a fashionable New York Paris modiste married to an older financier.
A Midwest young man receives a postcard from his father touring Europe. The note reads dear son on the other side you will see a picture of the rock from which the Spartans used to throw defective children. Wish you were here. Dad.
Sir William Ramsay and W. M. Travers discovered neon in 1898. A neon gas conductor tube for lighting appeared around 1911 and neon advertising followed later. Neon glows reddish yellow, but adding mercury yields blue, and other colors come from combinations with different gases or colored glass tubes.
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