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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1925
Page
4
ASA'S PRAYED Lord, it is nothing with Thee to help, whether with many or with them that have no power. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on Thee and in Thy name we go against this multitude. 2 Chronicles 14 11.
A red candy package with a Christmas scene was found on the northbound Coppock Highway near the town clock at 7 03 am. The finder asks the owner to call the Journal office and ask for Elizabeth to reclaim the item, promising safe return.
Walt Mason recalls Adelaide Procter once famed as a bard and queen of verse. Many readers now forget her, as efforts to celebrate her birthday in Lannon town met with indifference and a puzzled crowd.
A weathered individual carries a box and a horn under one arm while ensuring the package within remains secure. All is well with the delivery as the long cold night passes.
A reflective piece condemns idle gossip and slander in town life. It warns most tales are false or exaggerated and urges readers to withhold judgment to spare others from harm. An appeal to consider how rumor corrupts youth and communities.
A petition was presented to the Clear Lake school board requesting the erection of a new high school building with a project cost of $100,000. The filing notes anticipated construction and financing steps.
W D Mayor chief engineer for Henry Ford presents a plan for a trans polar non stop flight from Point Barrow Alaska to Spitzbergen. Officials say congressional authority is needed for government participation and the legal bureau gave an adverse opinion. Mayor suggested army lend aircraft and personnel if Congress acts.
Iowa Falls 17 year old Towa News Briefs reports that Hendryx son of D E Hendryx was killed when a shotgun carried by him or a companion discharged accidentally during a rabbit hunt. The incident prompted investigations and safety warnings.
A note urges readers to expand vocabulary by learning one word daily. Today’s entry defines SCRUTINY as close inspection and illustrates its use with the example phrase Revealm ent of the cause requires scrutiny.
A collage of lighthearted notes and jokes from a local paper page. Items include farm life humor about corn and mush, a post office Christmas shopping quip, a touring actor asking for money, a wedding fee joke, a preacher’s quip on payment, a clerk’s late hours, and a golfer’s modesty.
A playful health joke contrasts spelling trouble with rheumatism and jokes about gender differences in love and rings. The quip notes a girl loves her rings while a boy rings his love, delivered in a lighthearted caption style.
The readable poem invokes Chrast’s birth with Christmas imagery and angelic praise. A crude aside interrupts with a racial stereotype joke about a black cow and colored fruit, followed by a cryptic headline about two pants suits complicating key location memory.
The item list includes a room for two gentlemen, furnished apartments for gentlemen, a lost collie with brass collar, a boy who can open oysters with a reference, a bulldog for sale, an organist and boy needed, a bow partly outside and behind a counter, an umbrella near Highgate Archway, and a quip about married men and competence as husbands.
An Iowa travel anecdote recounts two auto misadventures. The author describes nearly overturning when the hat slips on warm roads and a rearward skid on ice ending before a collision with a telephone pole.
A six year old named Hhirry asks his father if marriage means he will have a wife like his mother. The father answers yes likely. Hhirry contemplates whether bachelor life awaits if not married. A mother and Bobbie exchange a bread making moment highlighting humor about clean hands.
Paramount presents Code of the West a brisk action romance adapted from Zane Grey by Lucien Hubbard and produced by William K. Howard. Flapperism is rebuked and jazz takes a hit in this direct, stark western tale.
A photo play shows Georgie May Stockwell, a flapper from New York, inflaming Cal Thurman, a cowboy, with flirtations. He compels marriage after she mocks him, leading to dramatic events during a roaring forest fire and a tense pursuit toward reunion at Fox Theatre.
In Plymouth county Iowa more than 100 new memberships were reported to the Plymouth county farm bureau during the past year many of them first time members.
The text describes the British throne seat in the house of lords separated from the woolsack by a brass rail. The Gothic oak chair is occupied by the king when he opens parliament and is part of the sovereigns ceremonial apparatus.
A brief quotation from a columnist notes that in life nothing stays permanent and change is transient. The line reflects a philosophical musing on impermanence and the editor's voice in the Boston Transcript.
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