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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1921
Page
4
Poem fragment presents lines about unconquered soul and fate from an archaic source. The passage references night, gods, circumstance, and a captain of one’s soul with quoted lines. The text appears as an invalid inbed obscured excerpt with misattributed author.
A columnist reflects on how much of national expenses go to army and navy payments for past and potential wars. He notes the world remains belligerent and the public cannot redirect all funds to peaceful development yet. Yet he sees hope for gradual progress as nations contend with conflicts.
A speaker recalls past election revelry and the delay of clerks finding visible items, while Martin waits for a laundry adjuster to settle a claim and memories of prior joyous displays surface.
Walt Mason satire portrays ex Kaiser Wilhelm engaging in humble labor after abdication. The verse lauds his shift from pomp to thrift as he labors daily, chops wood, clears pens, repairs fences, and saves money, contrasting past arrogance with present practicality.
The speaker argues against high army spending and imagines a U S shift toward home comforts. If funds were redirected from war to peacetime projects, the nation would irrigate arid lands, provide free education, build boulevards, reforest lands, construct ship canals, electrify rail, empower farmers with tractors, create hydro plants, nationalize coal mines, ensure a self supporting merchant marine, house the poor, and enhance hospitals and disease research. Seaports would gain deep harbors and landing fields as part of a broader modernization.
The text argues redirecting war expenses to peace efforts could ease aging hardships and poverty. It urges a coalition of powers to concentrate strength on peaceful economies to shield directly affected nations from distress, proposing flexible routes to achieve savings even if one path fails.
The street flusher worked in wet weather to keep pavements clean. Darius Brown urged more brotherly love and less gossip about people who break social norms, promoting the idea of a yoltry association.
The note favors expanding a local poultry show into an annual Washington County livestock fair, hoping to include horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep. It mentions L. F. Henderson of the Graham Store who shifted from medicine to dentistry after a phrenologist claimed he should pursue business.
The passage portrays a clear aur and distant lighthorses near twin plots with gulls overhead. A fresh breeze darkens the blue water as white foam hisses up the beach and a mist drifts across the shore, reflecting the wide expanse of the coast.
A testimonial from Mrs. Carrie Williams of Overpeck Ohio credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relieving backache headaches and fatigue before and after childbirth. The letter urges others to try the product and notes its long standing national reputation as a standard remedy for female health issues including nervousness and bearing down pains.
In the U S District Court the November term opened with arraignments for liquor law offenders. Judge Martin J Wade announced a new policy of jail terms and heavy fines, ending prior clemency and installment plans. Defendants faced thirty day jail sentences and substantial fines for moonshine manufacture.
Sullivan Ohio farm wife and mother of eleven credits Vinol with rapid strength return after grippe. She reports increased appetite weight gain and disappearance of cough following doctor's recommendation. Vinol contains cod liver oil elements without oil and beef peptones praised as blood and body building tonics. Price one dollar per bottle. Sherman Brothers Druggists.
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