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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1930
Page
4
A magazine essay recalls a boy who received a $100 loan at fifteen. Years later the lender becomes postmaster after the boy, now influential, helps secure the appointment. The postmaster forgets the loan, while the tale illustrates generosity returning in unexpected ways.
Elizabeth Hart describes a community Lyceum night at the Clear Creek schoolhouse. Neighbors travel long distances despite frozen roads to attend a program featuring a paper, jokes, student pieces, singing by Hawkins girls, and a big tariff debate after performances.
George Caldarno extols Iowa as a land of vast wealth and beauty. He touts Clear Lake and Okoboji, the capital, state parks, durable industry, packing and washing machine output, farm land value, and high motor truck and tractor use. The piece highlights Iowa’s manufacturing and agricultural prowess with high economic figures.
A Missouri traveler finds a farmer under a mudding mule and quotes a grim joke about the mule’s plight. The Nations Home Study Council notes detours and roadblocks mirror today’s gap to success and stresses modern education and methods to navigate change and achieve industrial progress.
The article highlights the growth of correspondence schools over the last fifty years. It argues this form delivers expert instruction to a wide audience, emphasizing accessibility for those capable of benefiting from it.
August J. Federer aged 74, known for chewing glassware at his St. Louis restaurant, died last week after a fall on a stairway. A fractured hip and complications led to death, with his physician saying his glass eating had no bad digestive effect.
A collage of riddles moralizing poems and sharp notes on politics and society. The piece jests about flappers and soldiers and ends with a dated toast to workers, a jab at tariff blame, bank mergers, and a caricature of Alabama politics. It cites WW F Jamson and a Florida Times Union chronicle citation.
The column laments an erratic January thaw and a temperamental forecast that delivers five or six days of mixed sun and rain. It notes the veteran weather man should know better, while finding humor in the fickle season and praising a Washington Democrat-Independent calendar for the office wall.
Policy holders of Farmers Mutual Insurance Association of Washington County Iowa and all others are notified of the annual meeting at City Hall Washington Iowa on January 10 1930 at 1 20 p m. The meeting will elect directors from Franklin Highland Jamie Creek Clay and Marion townships and address any other business that may arise. Signed Jas J Benda Levy January 3 6 7
Local groups schedule January meetings and events. Kolah club hosts baskets project with materials. Sunshine Community club meets Jan 8 with Mrs Warren. St James P T A meets Jan 24 at 4 pm. Walnut Woman's club hosts Coakley and Craig for officer elections. Prairie Flower Mission circle meets at church with refreshment and entertainment committees named.
The boxing commission defines a rabbitpunch as a blow to the base of the brain. Ring Lardner argues that such a strike, if real, deserves Hall of Fame status alongside Columbus and Balboa rather than disqualification.
A woman's testimonial from a Washington reader praises LISTERINE for saving her eye after a traveling mishap with a clinker. She recalls an observed incident on a train and credits the antiseptic with restoring attention and help from a nearby man.
The text discusses proper usage and pronunciation of common words and phrases. It covers avoided forms for words like invest and pencil, mispronunciations of candela bra and sec ond a, and distinctions among later latter and synonyms for just fair righteous. It also promotes daily vocabulary growth with the word utility and an example sentence about aviation.
IT McA reports a young man named Simpkins who sent original jokes to a newspaper editor and awaited payment. He was told via a brief note that some jokes were familiar and some unseen, prompting a quiet, anticlimactic conclusion to the column segment.
A set of trivia prompts asks which New England state is larger Ver Mont or New Hampshire and lists ten questions about U S geography and history.
The Legion distributes a condensed atlas map of the United States at cost. Readers may obtain a copy by sending ten cents in coins or stamps to the Haskin Information Bureau in Washington, D C. Include the newspaper name and a clear return address.
The fragment lists various states cities and figures including Illinois Rhode Island Wisconsin New Jersey Manila Texas value 284000009 Montgomery Arizona California Kansas Massachusetts New Hampshire Vermont population 518.9 per square mile Detroit 1813 miles Louis 1824 miles South Dakota 77617 square miles New England 66514 miles and notes club meetings and a pot luck event with no clear article context.
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