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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1920
Page
4
Secretary MacDougal of the Pershing Way will speak Thursday evening at the Commercial Club rooms. A decision on the highway route for this region will be made soon as Washington is urged to back the project. The Pershing highway aims to become a premier north south national route. Attend to help secure federal recognition.
A Grand Rapids study reports a 54 percent drop in crimes in one year after prohibition began. Intoxication cases fell from 138 in the last month of unrestricted circulation to 9 in the first month of prohibition. Investigators note higher living standards, fewer accidents, reduced tuberculosis and infant mortality, plus better factory conditions. The chief of police, once a bartender, praises prohibition and cites workers improving their families' lives. The survey says early gains include stronger moral tone even as self indulgence rises.
The poem contrasts old time aunts who kept home culture with modern women who reject kitchen tasks to engage in politics. The speaker laments the loss of traditional domestic duties and pride in his seven aunts who now appear slouchy and unfashionable as they pursue public life.
The piece argues that rising earnings and reduced stigma broaden opportunities for both genders, easing worry and boosting happiness. It notes improved finances reduce misery and enable finer amusements while contrasting with past liquor-driven waste, urging continued social gains and responsible enjoyment.
Margaret Alice Stewart says she will be a good girl through Christmas and then, in a plaintive aside, predicts that the New Year will bring revolutions. The remark captures a light social moment and humor about holiday expectations.
The Chicago Tribune reduces Sunday price in outlying districts while keeping prices in Chicago. The move accompanies a shift to a larger plant and explains that higher production costs, including pulp and labor, pressure all papers. The note cites International Paper data showing multi‑year cost increases and freight rises that complicate price controls.
The price for newsprint for the first six months of 1921 is fixed at 141.00 per ton, up from 98.00 this year. Demand remains above supply, with imports of European paper lowering spot prices enough to prevent further cost spikes in newspaper production.
The Evening Journal urges former advertisers to settle small Want Ad accounts, sometimes dating back months or years, to continue the telephone service. Readers are asked to settle within thirty days after the ad ran, noting the cumulative total remains significant to the paper.
A new Ad Club member recalls a warm welcome with a banquet at Mr. Rothschilds and a missing old hat replaced by a brand new ten dollar hat on returning home. The writer hopes the kind donor communicates to receive thanks. The note ends with a banking style government grain ban and a prompt to say I saw your ad.
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as curing catarrh by taking internally and acting through the blood on mucous surfaces. It notes sales by Sryssiste for over forty years and invites price testimonials. © F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Polly Wallace, Ames center, earned wide acclaim this season as the top center in the west. Eckersall placed him on his all western team, the sole non western conference university selection, with other regional picks also naming him. Wallace hails from Oklahoma City and is related to M. Y. Wallace and Pollock Wallace of Washington.
Several Washington automobile dealers and others in the business will attend the state meeting of the Iowa Motor Trades bureau to be held in Cedar Rapids tomorrow and Thursday. A Washington county branch of the bureau was organized here last summer and many local garage and repair men show interest in its work.
The seining business shows a solid season as the lake stays open most days. The state earns four cents per pound for caught fish.
Shelly Eberling of Washington contributed one dollar to Hall's Christmas Fund for needy Chicago children. The donation appears in the list of supporters organized by Sam Hall of the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
A brief, understated note accompanies a gift with Shelly’s name the only detail printed. The rest remains unshared, as he modestly requested. The item treats advertisements as news, inviting readers to read and reflect.
Storm Lake Dec 7 John Peterson joins the lake fishing for buffalo and carp yearly shipping his first car of fish last Saturday and two more cars yesterday. The fish travel alive in express cars with tanks and an electric air system keeping water conditions. Each car holds thirty to forty thousand pounds of live fish, mainly sent to New York markets. Many buyers drive long distances to purchase them. few local families eat them. Peterson last year hauled 40,000 pounds in a single run. Some game fish are caught but returned.
Fragmentary OCR shows railway related terms and numbers including Locomotive and passenger identifiers. Indicates a timetable or routing snippet with Friday entries and a Saturday reference. No clear full event or outcome available from the readable text.
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