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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1929
Page
4
A reflective piece argues for tax system reform in Iowa, noting rising costs to state and local governments and the burden on taxpayers. It calls for fairer taxes, targets farm relief, and stresses citizen responsibility to fund essential services like schools, hospitals, sewers, and roads while avoiding excessive burdens on those who cannot evade taxes.
Montreal Gazette reports on Ontario style enforcement via the Quebec Liquor Commission. Over the weekend 114 people, including several women who appeared younger, were brought before Chief Judge Perrault. About 75 pleaded guilty and paid fines with costs, while four men faced an unusual charge for buying liquor from an unauthorized source and were fined ten dollars plus costs.
A clipped English language lesson notes misused terms and mispronunciations. It highlights sagacious meaning keen judgment and urges daily mastery of a single word with examples.
A fragmentary column notes a harsh winter dubbed the winter of 29 with jokes about shoveling snow and coal. It mentions an orchestra song, a missing joke, and comedic lines about traffic rules and a widow’s life insurance. Includes hazy names and stray phrases from a deli page of quips.
A special meeting of Store of Avia the Co-Operative North held January 6 1929 in Ainsworth Iowa resulted in a vote by more than two thirds of capital stock to dissolve the corporation and distribute its assets to stockholders after all debts and claims are fully satisfied. FE J Richards President and Nold Secretary.
A teacher asks for the meaning of collision and an example. The class remains silent until a child delivers a pun about two things coming together unexpectedly. The scene ends with a playful reference to a silent partner.
A garbled radio style scene unfolds with a customer, a polite clerk, and a witty exchange about gloves and animal crackers. The fragment hints at a humorous, fast paced moment in a Idaho grocery setting with a character named Isador Shapiro rushing in.
Mrs Humston thanks local friends for cooperation as she passes the District Five column to Mrs Claud Rhodebeck. Young America school hosts a pork supper Friday evening February 1st with a children’s program and hopes for good attendance.
In a Denver Medical building an elevator girl Mary Wilson and timid Jim Thomas spark a city romance. After gifts and a missed signal, Mary confronts Jim and seeks to quit, a doctor urges marriage as cure, while the lovers confront timidity and social doubt amid a comic office scene. The tale ends with staff puzzled by elevators running both ways at once.
Gerald De Witt four months old, child of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Farrier, died at the family home in Sandy Hook. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. at grandparents’ home, burial at Brighton Hill Crest. Various local deaths, moves, and visits noted, including Frank Wittmer’s family, Golda Hartlett’s trip, and multiple Brighton area residents.
The Just Us club plans Wednesday meeting with Mrs. Wil Sickles and requests valentines and sensors. A kindergarten band event, Walnut cub meeting with Mrs. Fred Longer, and a Grand Army post program at the G A R room are set for February 14. Also the Pleur de as club hosts a Valentine event with families at Mrs. Roster’s home.
Tanlac promises relief for stomach illness and indigestion, claiming to restore strength, appetite, and sleep. A Kansas reader praises eight years of stomach trouble relief after using Tanlac, urging others to try the herbal remedy with a money back guarantee.
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