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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1920
Page
6
A page highlighting activities of Washington County women involved with the National Kindergarten Association. The weekly columns from New York City focus on training young children and promoting kindergarten methods.
Mrs Anna Anderson hosted the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society at her South Second avenue home with devotionals by Mrs T F Barker and a Korea Philippines Siam study by Mrs N M Speciel Smiles and plans for a March service were announced along with a white gifts pledge for Mrs Picherean. Mrs Cora BE Mernaugh and Mr James S Stevenson married New Year’s Day in Oskaloosa then celebrated with friends at 602 North Sixth Ave. The Kolah club held an oyster supper at the Dittmer home with friends and families joining in after.
An article urges parents to let children aged four and up create visible handiwork to foster skill, self control, and respect for authority. It suggests crafts like paper darts, pin wheels, scrapbooks, and mounting pictures, plus sharing handwork with less fortunate children. It notes the National Kindergarten Association runs matinees with the Juvenile Motion Picture League and provides contact details.
Miss Michi Kawai of the Japanese W C A explains a push toward simpler, machine washable dresses for workers and students. She notes many women own about fifty outfits, with multiple coats, and dress upkeep is heavy. government and schools promote uniforms to ease laundering and reduce kimono wear.
A Coburn Kentucky druggist reports Chamberlains Cough Remedy to be highly spoken of by customers. He has used it in his own family for seven years and deems it the best cough medicine. Lemmon's Drug Store advertises the product widely.
Fragmentary OCR note references former service members in England and a disruption involving a monetary amount. Text is garbled and lacks clear names dates places or actions to resolve into a complete item.
A sequence of society events listed for January six to thirteen includes D A R hosting, La Foch Society afternoon meeting, Young Women's Missionary Society officer elections, Cooking Klub luncheon, Pythian Circle afternoon gathering, Kolah club social, Pleasant Plain Missionary all day, Rural Women's club, Rebekah all day, Havre social club, Lexington Methodist Foreign Missionary Society, Social club afternoon, Delta Alpha Sunday school class January social, YWCA high school girls gathering for Deora Lanham visit, Damascus Shrine officer installation January fifteenth with a banquet and guest Minerva Parrott. Viret United Presbyterian Ladies Aid meeting noted.
Des Moines Y W C A worker Miss Ceora Lanham will arrive Wednesday to address the Ad club at dinner and speak Thursday on overseas work with the Y W C A. She will meet women interested in the cause at Mrs. Alex Miller's home and speak to high school students at a reception hosted by Gladys Clark. The events are free of charge.
A local Harmony club meeting is postponed from January ninth to January sixteenth and will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Swift for a social evening. Story hour for children runs at three o'clock in the Rest Room Court House. Fortnightly club hosts and postponements noted in schedule.
The Women's Inter church committee hosted the first story hour for children Saturday in the court house rest room. About 27 children and a few mothers attended as Mrs. George Dowell opened with Guess Who Stories from the Old Testament.
The article notes high heels appearing ninety years earlier and cites women gaining access to university study across Spain. It reports Philadelphia teachers seeking a $100 annual pay rise and highlights 725 delegates at a Chicago labor party convention including thirty women. It also claims Chicago Morats court records show girls are 100 percent perfect.
Iowa Federation assigns Thrift Week program January 17 to 24 with daily themes including National Thrift Day and Make-a-Will Day. Club News notes Biennial souvenirs pins and delayed magazine, Grinnell's Child Welfare drive, health clinic partnership, and fundraising memorial hospital endowment.
Auction note describes 13 percent acres within city limits with fair improvements including dairy and chicken suitability. Mentions meadows pastures and farm land one block from a new high school on hospital street. Several price figures and terms listed with a seven room house and utilities.
A comprehensive local listing presents a collection of town lots, residential properties, and farm lands for sale. The notice highlights available plots, acreage, and potential investment opportunities within the community.
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