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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1909
Page
4
The city council in adjourned session extended the paving contract deadline to February 15. No action was taken on a billiard hall license. The Ministerial association matter was postponed to the next meeting after only the petition appeared from one side.
A comic collage blends a verse about a farmer’s hard life with a joke about the Bauchee Loosefish and a punchline about marriage. It ends with an odd examination list declaring risky occupations from being run over by a train to dying in battle.
Washington December 16 The National Geographical Society honored Robert Peary as the pole discoverer at a banquet. President Moore praised him as the man who won the prize and said Peary's expedition data needed no editing. Captain Bartlett also received a medal from British Ambassador Bryce.
A humorous dialogue sketches domestic antics and social jabs. Edith suspects a marriage for money while Edna defends the husband’s earning. Milkins cites a French savant on borrowing as a disease, with Bilkins adding lending is insanity. Sharpe nears death prompts a quip about a doctor’s diagnosis. Silas Ragweed reports studying pyrography.
The text humorously notes St Allus fond of pie and jokes about Taft and Washington amid absenteeism chatter. It hints the Central American peace pact has been breached by bullets and mentions the vice president’s anonymity and potential misidentification with the Sherman Act or a famed march through Georgia.
A movement unfolds as fascination with knightly ideals intersects with organizing a men’s league in New York to champion women’s ballots. The effort signals a public push for women’s suffrage and gender equality in civic life.
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