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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1922
Page
4
Rates show MUTUAL 44 terms with per week and monthly prices at 1.25 and 6.00 per 3 months, and 12% for yearly in advance. Zone based mail subscriptions list Ist Zone and Outside Ist Zone pricing.
The Associated Press states exclusive rights to republication of its news dispatches and local news published in this paper. All rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved.
A short meditation titled A Safe Investment cites Proverbs 19 17 about lending to the poor. It emphasizes kindness to the needy as a loan to the Lord, with divine repayment promised. The piece reflects a churchly morale and daily devotional style.
The author argues Congress cannot curb child labor effectively without constitutional amendment. A federal standard could remove 1.5 million young workers from mines and mills and level the playing field between states with strict laws and those with lax or unenforced rules. The piece links child and woman labor to unfair competition and questions the adequacy of state actions without federal power.
ABE MARTIN T.11 Binkley has returned from Tulip Indiana where he owned mulled and dined in a different homes.
The poet laments the flood of new authors and overhyped books while chasing Shakespeare. He contrasts shoddy substitutes offered by eager sellers with his preference for real works, vowing to boycott merchants who push inferior goods.
A Rotarian speech condemns child labor as ruinous to physical and moral development and warns it undermines democracy. He cites Secretary of Labor Davis on long hours harming 12 year olds, risking lives in poverty, jail, or madhouse outcomes, urging church-based moral guidance and government action. The meeting covered Christmas charity planning with toys and welfare work by the Cleveland club. Attendees included Edward Burns of Chicago Gilbert Lee and Mr. McCarron of Burlington.
The poem fragment speaks of a couple aging together by a daughter's fire. Desire and love endure as time passes until death. A quiet vow connects memory, rhyme, and shared prayers, with lines about December, summer, and hiding longing. The speaker signs as Incog.
Alex Miller postmaster of Washington Iowa spoke to the Fort Madison Rotary Club urging rejection of anarchistic forces and class prejudice. He warned of propaganda entering family life and questioned threats to the government while praising wartime sacrifice and the need to protect children and national ideals.
Advertorial snippet describes a memory technique linking a blue cow to recalling mailing a letter. It transitions into a crude sales pitch for Sunoco motor oil claiming purity, cleanliness, and carbon reduction with better flow in cold weather and heavier body for engine power.
The By-the-way column mixes weather forecasts with humorous, eclectic musings and reader quips. It riffs on a snowy forecast, bargain hunting, lost relatives, a broom dispute, car parts, and social observations, ending with news of preserving coal from Nar ragansett Bay for Newport.
A village constable confronts a motorist about speeding, asking if the driver realizes he is traveling at forty miles per hour. The motorist responds affirmatively. The exchange captures a roadside incident and local policing style.
Eastbound and westbound schedules list arrivals and departures for multiple trains including Golden State Limited and local passes. Notes show frequencies, freight trains, and daily patterns with agents H W Russell and J C McKay.
A line of dialogue shows a request to attend a cinema tonight and an enthusiastic affirmative from Mr. Livermore. The snippet captures casual family style conversation about evening plans.
Billy Sitler brought home a striped creature with white dimples and black stripes claiming it is a skunk. His father Howard asked how he knew and Billy described the animal’s distinctive markings.
John Doe warns of a gang attempting a jail breakout tonight while Richard Roe dismisses the plan as a death sentence and notes that outside conditions, including housing, are reported to be terrible.
In a brief note, Sandy Macpherson is described as worrying over whether to save tobacco by keeping his pipe lit longer or wasting more on matches. The remark paints a humorous portrait of a character driven by a stubborn habit and small daily dilemmas.
In a western hotel the other day a World War I hero reunion occurred as the head clerk a First Lieutenant ordered the porter a Captain and the head waiter a Lieutenant Colonel to eject a former General cluttering the lobby chairs.
A newly married man refused a late night call to town saying he must ask his wife before visiting. The note hints at growing radio based dunning methods and questions the reach of such pressure on young people.
A cryptic dialogue questions a married pair with a 50 year old man marrying a 17 year old girl. The twist raises an absurd kinship puzzle where the 25 year old son marries the girl's mother, making the old man both son-in-law to his son and father-in-law to himself.
Regular meetings announced for LODGES in Washington area. details include dates first Friday second Friday fourth Friday and third Friday with officers named for each group. Visiting members and club rooms noted for Damascus Spring No 10 WSS of J meetings.
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