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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1922
Page
8
Fragmentary local note references Arch Best Oxfords and Wilsons with a 92tu OG mark and Kare wert role to Durlingtes. Mentions three days of the Master Bakers Association of the mate.
The Des Moines Register pictorials recall an old Newton church photo featuring Rev W G Thorne with a note on the old saying about ministers sons. It contrasts with Clifford Orne of railroad fame and mentions Mi O Na stomach remedy ads and local business notes.
Local residents and visitors are recorded in a string of morning movements. Mrs Walter Johnson goes to Keota on business while John Peterson returns to Monmouth after visiting the Oscar Carlson home. Mrs Course Poster arrives from Burlington to meet Pythian Sisters. Various other names travel to Davenport Chicago Keota West Chester Sigourney Delta and Wilton for visits business or shopping. The notice also invites readers to a Baptist church luncheon at 6 PM and advertises wool suit fabric from The Wardrobe.
Washington reports Iowa paid 804,422 into the federal aid program for road building and received 2,881,328 for state roads during the same period. The net gain shows Iowa benefited by 2,076,906.89, with the overall federal receipts totaling over 6.18 billion and Iowa contributing about 49.75 million.
A record of spanning distances between Mount Sparta in Mexico and the Sierra Madre, with ranges about two hundred miles apart.
The narrative recalls the old main road from New York to Albany, largely a rough forest belt with occasional clearings. It notes manor houses, dispersed farms, and brief stretches cut by river features and steep wooded walls, culminating in a vivid landscape description by Gertrude Atherton.
Stanislaus Zbyszko defeated Earl Caddock two falls to one at Madison Square Garden to keep the world heavyweight wrestling crown. Caddock won the second fall, but Zbyszko claimed the first and third by rolling pins. The crowd jeered the rolling falls as they occurred.
The Franklin Stock Company led by Otis Oliver arrives in Graham for a three day engagement starting Thursday February 16. Miss Heilman stars with Oliver in a new program featuring four vaudeville acts and all new scenery, with most of the old company replaced. The Ames Daily News notes a near sellout on their last visit and urges early seat reservations.
Mr and Mrs Granville Love now at Central Point Oregon visiting her parents Mr and Mrs A E Davis Elwyn Davidson was a visitor in Iowa City yesterday Mr and Mrs M C DeLong and daughter Irene of Washington visited relatives there Sabbath afternoon and attended services here that night
In Lidderdale Iowa Mr and Mrs John Peters feed nineteen to twenty one mouths daily as eighteen children and parents plus three married offspring live nearby. The clan totals nineteen or more children with eleven sons and eight daughters all living and five born in Germany. The oldest is 25, oldest daughter 18, and the last baby born the same day as her eighteenth birthday.
Tales of footwear superstition span ages and cultures. Augustus Caesar nearly faced assassination when his left shoe went on first prompting a belief the right shoe must lead to avoid misfortune. Pythagoras urged left first in baths. Anglo Saxon marriages used a ceremonial shoe token to signify the bride’s lordly authority.
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