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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
4
The Journal will not publish tomorrow for Christmas. The staff joins the community in a holiday break and sends best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The message urges cheerful, responsible conduct and hopeful sentiment for universal peace in the coming year.
Letter to the editor praises the county corn relief shipment for the Near East and central Europe and urges community backing of Farm Bureau President Lett's leadership in the undertaking. The writer stresses the project as a worthy, much needed enterprise.
Poem laments Noah Webster barred from the Hall of Fame calling him a lost genius. It praises Webster for defining tough words and shaping language while noting Hall judges deny his entry.
A letter from A. Anderson urges immediate action to relieve famine while millions starve. He notes Washington township could supply a car load of corn and offers to pay for 20 bushels toward the cause.
A Los Angeles Times anecdote notes Bishop Hoss at a Nashville picnic humorously critiques adult religious knowledge by recalling a girl named Eve who lists items she claims are in the Bible. The exchange satirizes familiarity with sacred texts through a child’s innocent confusion.
Des Moines reports Governor Harding will name an appointee to complete the state railway valuation begun under the 1917 law. The project, delayed by war and turnover, seeks to verify the Interstate Commerce Commission’s figures without further large appropriations.
A sarcastic tourist struggles through shouted place names and decorative Welsh phrases. The exchange features a shepherdess listing villages and parishes with impossible spellings, ending with the long Welsh locational line from Llanfairpwllwyngysgogerychwytnudrobwolliantys iogogogoch.
An exchange aboard a London omnibus provokes laughter as a passenger balks at a Glasgow fare saying he only wishes to go there. The incident highlights fare disputes and traveler impatience in urban transit.
H Hin of Marlboro Vermont says he never felt better after taking Tanlac. Once run down he could work only a day in three months and has since gained thirty pounds, claiming a full recovery in health and energy.
G H Hill of Brattleboro says Tanlac boosted his strength from 114 pounds to a healthier weight and allowed him to return to work after three months of illness. He cites relief from indigestion catarrh and nervousness and praises the medicine as essential to his recovery. Tanlac sold by Sherman Bros Wellman Mac Gugin Drug Co and leading druggists. The article also notes a English scheme using water column impulses for power transmission as an alternative to compressed air.
Muscatine officials seek 306000 dollars from Rock Island for a subdivision freight terminal. Funds would fund a larger freight depot a new round house and about three miles of track. Rock Island owns land below the Hahn spur in South Muscatine and has eyed it for shops.
Fossil turtles dated from 3,010,000 to 7,000,000 years old have been discovered in San Juan county in northern New Mexico. The find expands knowledge of ancient reptile life in the region and provides new data on prehistoric ecosystems.
Jud Tunkins deems a major challenge is to make the average man enjoy regular work as much as solving puzzles. The remark highlights a tension between labor and mental games in everyday tasks.
The stage comedy Twin Beds by Salisbury Field and Margeret Mayo features Zaina Curzon and a special cast. Audiences recall its earlier Graham Theatre visit with mass patronage and continuous laughter as six residents in a fashionable building attempt to escape neighborliness by relocating to a similar apartment house.
Jimmie Hodges unveils a new 1920 version of All Aboard For Cuba with his male and female chorus for the Graham Matinee and night show on Christmas Day. He formed a famous female chorus while touring the South aiming to teach intricate dancing steps to youth.
California’s anti alien law drives Japanese families to Texas where in two months they have leased or bought about a quarter of the irrigated land in the Rio Grande Valley. Yellowstone Park reports 79 777 visitors in the 1920 season. Jinrikisha men attach to motorcycles, a sign of modern progress changing rural Japan.
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