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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1924
Page
4
No Journal Tomorrow Christmas Holiday Observance
The Journal will not publish on Christmas Day. The note imagines readers delaying sleep to glimpse Santa Claus and hopes Santa visits every household. It muses on Santa's possible headquarters near the North Pole, Alaska, and even remarks on Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal Force
Santa
Christendom
North America
North Pole
Alaska
Russia
Widow's comedy and a missed inheritance in old tea room tale
Abe Martin recalls Mrs Ike Lark’s widowed sister with a joke about blue promoters. Her husband left her $118, yet the story notes they don’t know it. The piece mocks social schemes and suggests dinner at a tea room as a cure for life’s burdens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ike Lark
Cross Word Puzzle Word Fill Clues List and Notes
A dense list of crossword clues with across and down numbering, including 1 through 69 across entries and various theme hints for letters, prefixes, suffixes, and word meanings, typical of a puzzle page. It reads as a long, scrambled clue set for players to fill intersecting words across, down, and diagonally in a standard grid.
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason Christmas Subdued
Posed as a humorous monologue, the speaker pleads with Father Christmas to stay longer to aid the poor and comfort the afflicted. He envisions helping the sick, supporting outdoor camps, buying stamps for charity, and sharing warmth with those in need while acknowledging Christmas will end with Santa's departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Christmas
Jerry
Tam
Christmas Greeting From The Journal Family
A jovial note wishing readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. It mentions Alaska, Russia, and Santa Claus, and promises no Journal issue tomorrow while inviting celebration, rest, and feasting with peppermint, soda, castor oil, and other potions if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal
Lest We Forget Expenditures in the Bill
The article lists expenditures part of the bill with a note urging remembrance and reflection on the cost to the community. It frames the figures as a cautionary reminder of public spending and its effects.
Unclear US Spending On Everyday Items Sparks Debate
The passage lists large annual expenditures in the United States on items like face powder soft drinks cigarettes jewelry and luxuries. It claims an average of about $100 per person per year for these items and ends with a rhetorical remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Radio Program for Tomorrow list of Christmas schedules
Radio Digest lists Christmas day programming across networks with a wide range of concerts, orchestras, musical showcases, talks, and cantatas from stations in Atlanta Boston Calgary Chicago Cleveland Cincinnati Dallas Ft Worth Hollywood Iowa City Kansas City New York Los Angeles Minneapolis St Paul Newark Seattle and more including Christmas carols, Bible lectures, and a Messiah oratorio program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WBAP
Ft. Worth Star Telegram
KNX
Hollywood
Iowa City
WHB
Kansas City
WDAF
Kansas City Star
School of the Air
KFI
Los Angeles
WHAS
Louisville Times
WMC
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Wcco Minneapolis-St. Paul
WOR
Newark
WJZ
New York
Material success and character in Coolidge quote
Calvin Coolidge argues that men seek more than wages and factories produce more than goods. He asserts material rewards are not the sole measure of success and that true progress lies in character development through struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin Coolidge
Christmas musings and poems in a weathered column
A slice of holiday miscellany with poems and snippets of Yuletide humor. The piece mixes playful verses, a light spoof on Maud Muller, Christmas wishes, toys and candy, and a rail timetable interlude, all in a nostalgic newspaper tone.
Dad's Christmas Bills and Shopping Blues
The piece riffs on holiday spending with complaints about rotten cigars and bills for socks neckties and handkerchiefs. It contrasts the festive season with the stress of purchases and hints at a young woman parsing which admirers truly mean business before the feast.
Christmas satire and a grim tale from the season
A column jokes about gifts and excess while recounting a man who shot into the air on Christmas Eve and claimed Santa died by his own action. It notes Christmas drinking tips to finish funerals before the holidays and mentions Sunday schools filling up, with a quip from Joe Falk about spring turning green.
Coincidence and calamity in sap wood
A cryptic fragment notes that sameness and difference meet as a coincidence, pondering what a third element might be and hinting at a calamity hidden in the sap wood. The tone suggests a reflective, poetic observation rather than a reported event.
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WKAQ
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Kfoa Seattle
WRBC
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C. B
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A. F
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W. M
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D. L. Carbaugh
I. M
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K. T
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B.C
Pearle Dickerson
Alice Rownd
Damascus Shrine
Ida McDaniel
W. H. P. Dwinnle Thompson
Worthy
Amos Chapter de Moley
Wade Crone
M. C
Robert Thompson
Loyal Order of Moose
Moose Hall
L. R. Littrel
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