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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1924
Page
8
Local items urge winter battery recharging and storage with delivery, listing Blaine Holmes contact at phone 239. The crowded column mentions visits to Galesburg Illinois and Chicago, Christmas cards, clothing ads, and multiple residents returning home for holidays, all in a small town newspaper tone.
A local seller promotes Martha Washington and Priscilla sewing cabinets as lifetime gifts in solid walnut or solid mahogany. The items are presented as affordable yet durable options.
Local shoppers and residents in Warren area are highlighted with store hours and holiday plans. Miss Bessie Longer visits Ainsworth on business while Arthur Teeter and Misa Eather Cook return for Christmas. Prof. Roth and William Livingston are noted visitors and travelers. Union barber shops plan Christmas Eve hours. Baird and Lytle markets promote cream and milk sales. A large new sport venue is planned in Munich with 14 700 seating plus 6 000 standing capacity for events and conventions.
NUREMBERG Nov 27 The metal ware exports of Germany have amounted to only about 40 percent of pre war figures according to an announcement by the German Metal Ware Manufacturers Association The decline is attributed to protective measures adopted by many countries that formerly consumed large quantities of Gershan goods.
Cologne officials announce a bell weighing over 25 tons will soon be installed in the cathedral. The massive bell has sat ready for shipment from Apolda for more than a year but foreign occupation of the Cologne area delayed installation.
Every voter newly qualified after January 1 1922 must present either an eighth grade graduation certificate or a literacy certificate before voting. The rule applies to those reaching majority, naturalization, or moving into the state.
The article notes many small farms in France and suggests hand plows are operated by both women and men. It describes a rural setting where farmers use manual tools adapted to small plots and shared labor roles.
Fire crews from Burlington and Keokuk aided the local department at Fort Mason to combat a blaze that leveled a fire and ten cent store. Total damage is placed at 115000 dollars. In Des Moines, Grinnell alumni plan a banquet honoring Morgan Taylor and Neil Krone tonight. In Iowa City, Notre Dame and Iowa's track meet shifts from May 23 to May 30. Iowa's football schedule adds St Louis University for October 10. Sioux City records seventeen inches of snow this month, December 1924, the heaviest December snowfall since 1911.
Mohandas Gandhi, elected head of the annual Indian National Congress, requires each congressman to spin 2,000 yards of yarn monthly to sustain the noncooperative movement and promote home production. The aim is boycott of foreign cloth and strengthen self reliance.
Athens dispatch reports Greece will stay strictly neutral in response to the British minister’s inquiry about Albania.
The passage contends that merely echoing others opinions does not improve knowledge. Truth exists in the reader own reasoning, and one must cultivate original judgment rather than rely on consensus. It emphasizes personal discernment over accepted views.
A fragment argues that idolization can be undone by various accidents with marriage described as a counterapotheosis and deification inverted, noting how familiarity causes the goddess to fade into a woman.
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