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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1922
Page
4
The notice grants exclusive republication rights to this paper for AP news dispatches and local news while reserving all rights to special dispatches. It states AP content is credited and locally published, with rights reserved.
The Journal will not publish on Monday December 25 Christmas Day. The staff will take a full holiday to celebrate with families. Wishing readers in Washington and Washington County a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
In Washington the Good Fellows Club and Inter church Committee organize a Christmas relief effort. Mrs. C. W. Stewart notes strong response as Santa visits and dinners are prepared for families in need. Volunteers donate time and money, delivering unselfish aid to make the season happier.
Verse urges calm amid woes and mocks despair. A veteran poet counsels that troubles fade with time and attitude, urging resilience and lightness despite life's shocks and ups and downs.
The Good Fellows respond to critics who accuse them of misplacing baskets or duplicating deliveries. They note their services are free and aim to spread Christmas cheer, even if occasionally a home is overloaded. They urge critics to embrace the season's spirit and avoid grouchy meddling.
Amusements note that the Fox theatre will present Rich Men's Wives as its principal Christmas attraction. The drama, produced by Preferred Pictures Inc under B P Schulberg and directed by Gasnier, features a star cast including House Peters Claire Windsor Baby Richard Headrick Rosemary Theby Gaston Glass Myrtle Stedman and others.
C G Hartzell of Sigourney, a Niemeyer Brothers salesman from Ottumwa, died at St Josephs hospital after a late yesterday accident that fractured his skull while riding with M K Fowler near East State street and Oakland cemetery. Coroner ruled no inquest. funeral to Sigourney.
The Associated Press reports Tahiti locals will not support destitute white men. In recent years several whites arrived hoping natives would sustain them, but there is no work for white men and incomes are insufficient amid low island economic conditions.
Regular dinner Sunday noon and six o'clock and six o'clock dinner Christmas night at Dean's.
A playful collection of holiday quips and lighthearted jokes arrives from readers. Lighthearted bits reference mail carriers, private secretaries, and funny names, ending with a child asking if God is there during a Pullman carriage moment.
The Hills Iowa editor prints a reader Ida Cavender letter about solving Ode Ferguson’s number puzzle by turning the numeral 9 upside down to make 21. The piece frames holiday charity and Christmas questions, including a child Billy Cox’s Santa questions.
The text mocks pronunciation of the Polish president Wojciechowski and jokes about questions of prices for eggs at six percent. It notes nerve tension from work on Ruebsam and ends with a proverb about laughter and liberty among married men.
Mrs A L Dusenberry of Washington says her kidneys and back improved after using Dean's Kidney Pills and reports long lasting relief. Her endorsement notes past failures with other remedies and the pills cost 66 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Mills Buffalo NY distributes them.
Three men English Irish and Scotch lost in the Sahara share a single quail and agree to wait for the best dream to decide who eats. The Englishman claims no dream came, the Scotchman narrates a vivid heaven dream, and the Irishman begins to recount it as the tale ends.
A garbled excerpt quotes a Mrs G L lamenting a gang conflict and someone who was not able to return, suggesting a failed attempt or escape amid urban violence. The damaged OCR leaves attribution and specifics unclear.
A cumbersome tale recalls Sol Cohen seeking insurers for a barn and his wife Rachel arranging a news wire prank. A telegraph clerk sends a blank envelope provoking Sol to cry out in anguish. The fragment ends with a holiday shopping aside and a New Year resolution joke.
Tokyo December 1 The Associated Press reports a poll among pupils at Ochanomizu High School shows military men are not desired as husbands. Despite coming from military and official families not one in a hundred graduates chose a soldier husband. the majority prefer independent merchants.
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