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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1929
Page
4
A reader named Lucille Mangold is urged to enter and request a small envelope awaited for her. The teaser promises the envelope contains something useful and the story is presented in type.
A column argues Iowa carries a modest per capita debt of 6.34 dollars while noting national bonds average 17.84 per person. It cites state comparisons, highway spending, and the soldiers bonus as key factors in rising indebtedness, praising road investments and crediting Prohibition for prosperity alongside other sectors.
A birdologist notes ranges of life spans for common birds. The wr en lives about three years while robin and blackbird reach twelve, quail fifteen, pigeon twenty, sparrow forty, goose fifty, parrot sixty, and crow swan and eagle about one hundred years.
Explains prohibition’s economic argument with focus on workers wages rising since 1918, reduced living costs since 1920, and sober productivity. Highlights that employers gain from steadier labor, less turnover, fewer accidents, and that farm machinery demand and milk sales rise. notes increased bank deposits since 1920.
A fragmented poem about a sick child awaiting spring ending with the child’s death. The voice recalls holding the cold little hand as the forget-me-not pot is placed outside. The sorrow contrasts with a hopeful refuting line about spring returning. It blends with scattered punchlines from other clippings.
This note promotes vocabulary growth by presenting a daily word skeptIcal meaning a person who doubts or disbelieves and an example phrase His skeptical mind would not accept it. The piece contrasts misuse confusion with luxuriant luxurious mispronunciation and notes common misspellings while urging careful word study.
The piece muses on seasonal color with references to a cardinal, cranberries, and turkey meat as Christmas symbols. It jokes about a joke on keeping bills down by placing them under a flat iron, while describing fog thick as pea soup drift across town. The voice imitates Carl Sandburg with lyric imagery of fog moving softly like a cat.
A column of light humor riffs on a touring millionaire couple in Spain praising the Prado and a Correggio Adam and Eve painting. It jokes about knowledge, weddings in June, a Burlington hot dog sign, April first weddings, Voltaire quips, and Sir Walter Raleigh as a poet rather than a footballer, ending with a sample of his poetry.
A compact verse on concealed affection and the pain of silence in love. The speaker warns against wronging a beloved and notes that quiet suffering can hurt more than words. The modern office interlude adds a light jab about health and smoking with a punchline.
Mr and Mrs A R Stutsman visited Cedar Rapids Saturday. Mr and Mrs A J Votruba and family shopped in Washington Saturday. Mr and Mrs O C Steigleder visited their nephew Corwood Baker at Iowa City Sunday. Corwood, a University hospital patient, is improving rapidly. Mrs Sherman Crone and family were guests at the Gerald Teets home Sunday. The W H Plank dinner guests included Chauncey Hershberger and family Chris Bontrager and family Chris Brenneman and family and Lewis Hoeh.
Joe Rapp and Mary Yoder married Sunday at Benedict Miller's home. Bride came from Indiana. groom longtime resident of the Kalona area. Local residents, including Perry Lemley's recovery and a kitchen fire at Lydia Brenneman's east Kalona home, noted.
A Homestead Farm feature thanks the Kiowa Journal for I Rothschild's Rotary Club address and discusses safety on rural roads, the value of lights on wagons after dark, and a traffic incident near Iowa City. It notes local injuries from a recent car crash, a 1930 license plate, and remarks on dental health and local traveling between Washington and West Chester.
Quiz prompts asking states with largest crop value first white settlement site most libraries five great lakes capital of Kansas principal islands in the Philippines which extends farther south California or Georgia third largest US city state with less than one inhabitant per square mile smallest state by area
Abe Martin notes President Hoover could steer money into legitimate trade by limiting yearly earnings to under $2,000 to help workers afford car payments and bills. Mame Moon reflects on fashion and emancipation as she apologizes for her long skirt today.
Readable fragments describe a Know Your Country game at Lookout school praised for strong pupil turnout and memorized program parts. Anecdotes replay student humor about local figures, with notes on a late program and a bridge club gathering.
Tuesday December 17 at 7 45 PM a box supper and early social will be held at Dutch Creek Center School three to four miles south and one mile west of Dublin hot lunch served ladies bring boxes all welcome Genieve Shebeck teacher 25613
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