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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1921
Page
8
A fragment notes an iris display at Wilson Flower Garden with a phone contact 457 Green and reference to p2tStuff, suggesting a garden shop or exhibit outline.
John Latta son of Linton Latta and brother of W H Latta and J G Latta visits relatives before leaving for Omaha to join the University of Nebraska Medical College as anatomy professor. Local residents and visitors including Harold Carter Kermit Carter and families are noted, along with Home-Coming remarks for the United Presbyterian congregation. Florence Moots returns to Muscatine after visiting the Dayton home.
J B Spencer firms up his praise after receiving a half bushel box of fine pears from Jim Love of Central Point Oregon. Love ships pears and apples and steers a growing fruit business with 12 cars shipped last year. The local page also lists visitors and business notices from Haskins Columbus Junction Ely Minn and West Chester with various ads and service notes.
Miss Maude Randall underwent an appendicitis operation at the county hospital this morning and is reported as getting along fine. The item also notes various local society references and brief notices of residents traveling or visiting, with ads interspersed.
The article explains two eider duck varieties the common elder and the king s elder. The king s elder provides down exported from Greenland and Iceland supplies the elder with about ten thousand pounds of down yearly. The elder is larger than the common duck with a black rib and white back while the female is brown and white.
Lora Kelly reports in Cleveland that major firms in Hartford Chicago and Cleveland debate bobbed hair for women. Studies find no clear reason for bans yet note a famous dancer used a Paris bob. Some companies focus on content over appearance while a police reporter opposes it for feminine look.
The article traces the origin of pen from Latin penna meaning feather and notes pencil derives from pencillus meaning a small brush. It adds that Romans called black ink blacking and that ink comes via French from encustum the red ink used by Holy Roman emperors.
Grinnell College reports forty eight alumni in missionary work as two new graduates join the field. John Decker sails from San Francisco to Te Chow China to direct playgrounds and English instruction, while Lois Woodburn departs New York for Cairo to teach at Ezbakiya Girls School for three years.
An unnamed man with absent hair sits beside a woman holding an infant in a crowded car. He quips I let the women mind them while the mother replies with a warm smile. The exchange highlights social norms about infants and seating courtesy in a confined space.
Astronomers use common nicknames for glowing gas clouds including the Keyhole, Crab, Pinwheel, Dumbbell, Owl, Horseshoe, Swan, Whirlpool, Omega, and North American nebulae. The North American nebula’s outline strikingly resembles the continent of North America.
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