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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1929
Page
3
The Journal's Weekly News Review covers a Cedar Rapids currency theft, legal actions in Soux City, a stagnant pig crop vs 1928, a Rock Island jail hold for Lamont and Hicks, a self-inflicted death in Cherokee, a Waterloo sauerkraut plant fire, and a Muscatine liquor plant probe. It notes funeral details, science convention attendance, Christmas accident tolls, and various local incidents and plans across Iowa.
Officials reveal potential grand jury inquiry into charges and countercharges over the million dollar Finn estate of ex Iowa state senator George Lafayette Finn who died in Los Angeles last January.
The Eureka church basement hosts an oyster supper on Friday evening Dec 27 with all welcome. Mrs Charles Rothlisberger will host the Rosemary club on Mon Dec 30 with a date change notice. A New Years dinner is planned for Wednesday at noon in the church basement with guests asked to bring baskets and covered dishes. menu includes meat escaloped dish baked beans salad jelly and pie. coffee provided.
The issue records December 23 to 28 1919 events in Washington including a silk flag presentation by 43 members of the Women’s Relief Corps led by Mrs John Bryson, property sales at Klein Klothing Co corner to Col Neola Ida Harmon and Martin Essley, a suicide by Civil War veteran Arnold Twiggs, local deaths including Mrs John Jacobs and James Newton Boileau, numerous Christmas programs baskets and church events, organ installation at Fox theatre, Red Cross and fire department activities, and community notices on marriages prizes and post office traffic.
A whimsical instructional verse guides readers to draw an elephant by starting with a letter C and adding a ring, sticks, lines, an eye, a snout, a tail, feet, and dashes, ending with a recognizable animal.
The narrator recalls standing at the stern watching the lighthouse fade away and the boat ride, a seine boat at work, and the strange shipboard noises. A friend teaches time by the ship bell while the crew jokes with the newcomer who grows comfortable amid rough but kind sailors.
The narrator recounts a rough voyage ending in Boston where sleep was brief enough to wake to a bustling pier. Fishermen, draymen, and ship owners crowd the docks as barrels of fish and cargo move past warehouses toward Commercial Wharf. The narrator departs with Eric, watches ships pass, then is roused by a tug on the elbow, signaling a continuation of the tale.
Review notes Colleen Moore in Footlights and Fools presented in Technicolor with songs and a French actress persona. Also discussed is The Aviator featuring Edward Everett Horton as a dashing author turned wartime pilot with Patsy Ruth Miller, including a stunt sequence ending in a haystack.
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