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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1922
Page
4
The text asserts exclusive rights of The Associated Press to republication of all news dispatches and local news in this paper. It reserves all republication rights for special dispatches and declares the paper’s content protected.
Like produces like and a warning from Galatians 6 7. A daily devotional note urges readers to live righteously, not deceiving themselves, as actions yield consequences under divine law.
A speaker argues the nation spends about one billion dollars annually on education while tobacco candy cosmetics and luxuries absorb over twenty two billion. The piece urges prioritizing education to support democratic self government and warns against ignorance echoing Russia's collapse.
A humorous poem depicts Christmas gifts turning grim as taxes loom. The speaker rails at surtaxes and formal forms, lamenting how gift shopping becomes strained by the tax collector's constant scrutiny and the rector’s rebuke. Strong entities include Walt Mason and tax.
Mrs Rachel A Brook nee Maxwell of Blue Mound Kansas born April 22 1848 in Crawfordsville Iowa in a family of eight children including Emma McCall of Washington Iowa.
Deceased, survivor and educator, was reared in a Christian home and became a Christian young. She taught in Town, married Hugo M. Brook in 1871, and moved to a Kansas farm 30 miles southeast of Blue Mound. She led in First United Presbyterian church and federated church, opened her home to all, tended the sick, and kept a bright soprano voice in gatherings.
A collection of brief vignettes and humorous exchanges from city streets. Snapshots include a cold morning greeting, Persian wedding fire ritual note, a traveler seeking a train ticket to Springfield, jokes about coping with critics, and a humorous misinterpretation of noises from a neighbor.
A Rotary Club tale recounts a man bringing roses home to his wife after a pep talk about kissing, but the wife reveals illness and a missing maid, leaving him drunk and facing family chaos. The piece contrasts idealized romance with domestic trouble and hints at a past misstep with money.
A whistled tune leads Maudie to an engagement while Marie notes ladylike behavior. A fugitive is photographed in six poses and police say five suspects captured with one under observation. A garage buyer jokes about preferring a first-class car, and a simple truth about names on checks ends with a call to make room.
A punch hole in an electric bulb small enough for 1,000,000 oxygen atoms would take 100,000,000 years to fill. The statement describes the slow process of molecular diffusion into a vacuumed bulb.
In a referenced quarrel a woman accuses her husband of deception and pretense, claiming he knew she was lying while feigning belief. The exchange shows mutual disappointment and distrust in their marriage.
The note cites Charles Kingsley usage showing lodging by twos and threes, and a folio Shakespeare line with tweoes and threes in Winter Tale act 1 scene 2, highlighting evolving plural forms of the number two.
Jim Hudson notes in a Magnolia News field correspondence that, during his long years of selling chickens, he has never learned why a chicken scratches twice with one foot and once with the other before reversing feet on the next pass.
The piece describes high class Chinese ladies using exquisite thimbles carved from large pearls and adorned with gold bands, featuring intricate and fanciful engravings.
The article notes that rug selection should harmonize with surroundings. It emphasizes matching color and design to existing furnishings, which gain value through their relationship to one another.
The garden mallow named hollyhock derives from hoelylock and Anglo Saxon terms meaning from the Holy land where the plant is indigenous. The term reflects its origin and traditional labeling.
A reflective observation proclaims time not a thief but a resource to be used wisely. The aphorism urges people to seize moments or bear losses, framing time as earned value rather than lost.
The ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine with an ointment for local inflammation and an internal tonic that works through the blood to restore normal mucous surface conditions. It notes the product has been sold by druggists for over 40 years and lists F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio as the makers.
Police in Casper believe a woman who resembles Clara Phillips, wanted for murder, is held there after arrival from Los Angeles. A male companion from the train remains unfound as authorities investigate the case and the woman’s claimed identity as Beatrice Craig. The police press chief says reports fed to reporters may have been a hoax while awaiting sanity evaluation.
A concise reflection on cause and effect from Thackeray detailing how thoughts shape acts, habits, character, and ultimately destiny through a chain of sowing and reaping.
An old fashioned ad extols buying a used car and taking the family on a chilly ride to stay warm. It suggests everyone pumps tires, searches for a mechanic, and pushes the car to start. The piece promotes a Vacuum Cup tire as a practical Christmas gift to spare tire trouble on rough roads.
The Associated Press reports a widespread freeze across Iowa with Mason City at eight below zero, Sioux City and Charles City six below, Council Bluffs four below, Davenport and Dubuque at zero, and other areas showing subzero readings.
The earliest riser in bird fame is the greenfinch which begins to sing on a sunlit spring morning at about one o clock.
The Eskimo communities honor the hunter who takes the season’s first whale. A famed figure leads the commounities in welcoming the successful voyage and celebrating the season’s milestone with the crew and village elders.
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