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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1927
Page
4
The excerpt from Harper's Magazine reflects on whether the sea or a grand statesman is the poem’s hidden subject. It speaks of bearing tempests and crushed vanity, seeking quiet valleys and rest. Ralph Emerson Hackett
The piece recalls past support for third term bids by Theodore Roosevelt and contrasts it with Calvin Coolidge likely not seeking a second term. It notes Republican and Democratic debates, the political maneuvering to block Coolidge, and questions whether vice presidential succession should count as a term while predicting no immediate congressional decision.
A University of Martland student tried to smoke fifty cigars in eight hours to settle tobacco harm questions. After thirty cigars he stopped, becoming ill with rapid pulse and high blood pressure, proving the old saying that too much is too much. The anecdote echoes a doctor’s citrus appetite tale of overindulgence.
The Y W A girls receive an anonymous subscription from Brighton to support Y W C A with orders for no publicity. The donors aim to show distant friends value these institutions and to encourage practical Christian conduct. The girls praise the example set and work to improve Washington through their organization.
Editorial by Paul Campbell argues the Supreme Court ruling places full responsibility for railroad grade crossing accidents on drivers, not railroads, claiming deaths will fall as motorists slow and heed crossing signs.
A poem describing a father's organized life and his iron bound trunk filled with odds and ends. The speaker recalls nails, screws, buckles, parts of guns, ship wood, and personal memories. He compares life to a trunk that holds sins, loves, joys, and memories, hoping future searchers find good within the junk.
Ought to Ston Traffic-Grover C. Darrow, commissioner of public safety, to issue an order for traffic division officers to don summer attire on duty. The compiled items include a large straw hat, white shirt and black tie as proposed summer wear.
The column riffs on stereotypes as it cites headlines from the Chicago Tribune back page about wives harming husbands and divorces. It mentions Velma West of Painesville Ohio and Beatrice Wilson Cardinella among others, challenging the notion of the weaker sex.
A town mother questions where her older youth is after a teacher says he finished junior high. A barber Rodney Arnold jokes about driving to Iowa City with the windshield open in a chilly night as Shelly shows little interest.
YD C Kilgore describes a moment of fatigue from flu followed by an unexpected mail delivery showing a newly illustrated folder about the latest burial vault designs.
A playful poem about a girl who samples cake parts and rejects bread then grows into a life that chokes her by age twenty five. It uses whimsical imagery to suggest how tastes and habits shape adult hardship.
A dialogue fragment shows a speaker denying hate for anyone while admitting a plan to start hating someone if needed. The exchange emphasizes restraint and a hypothetical ally chosen to trigger such feelings. The source conveys a streetwise moral stance in terse speech.
A collage of quips and exchanges on manners and language. Dialogues touch on Eskimo domino players wagers wives and a Times election headline. The prose weaves humor about bred-in adjectives and a frog with a dog farm.
The country’s top one thousand bridge players are slated to converge in Chicago in December. Expert competitors, famed for recalling trumps, headline the event as the best in the nation prep for a premier tournament.
An argument arose over a contested object brought in by John Wood. Local officials and witnesses described conflicting views on ownership and relevance to a current case.
A fragmented excerpt ponders historic battles and jokes about water politics and thefts. It references Waterloo Gettysburg The Maine and a Scotsman with two Jews while noting a statistician's claim that home accidents kill more than street incidents. The French cabinet crisis lingers.
A reader questions the motive of a young man named Prince Carol leaving Paris to reside in Roumania. The note expresses confusion about the apparent choice and its cultural implications.
The senate refused the oath of office to Senator-elect William S. Ware of Pennsylvania but granted him a trial by the Reed committee. Prohibition agents arrested 64,986 persons last year as part of enforcement efforts. A peace pact to protect the slender republican senate majority was completed.
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