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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1920
Page
8
For sale the W. W. Cherry ice business with two ice houses a lot and small residence, one team two wagons and tools. Rent one ice house and pond. Great paying business in the city with prime ice harvest potential. Contact Co. Lemley Realty Co. F. M. Bank Bldg. Phone 247.
A damaged excerpt lists names and an address with references to an authorized representative in Washington and Iowa. The readable items show a person or group arrangement and contact notes for an official or journal use.
The client requests a $10,000 loan on an eight acre TS0 farm at six percent interest for five years. They rate it a safe loan and invite demonstrations of the property.
A flock of brief items lists residents and travelers in the town. Morning departures include Mrs Jennie Burham to Clinton Iowa and Mrs Robert Barnett to Wellston. Visitors include Gladys Ireland Fern Benn and Miss Marguerite Johnson. Lectures and entertainments are announced for the cleanest city, with Overseas Orchestra and Dr Krebs.
The eight o'clock ceremony at the Wishart residence united Miss Della An nette Fetters and Mr. Howard G. McBride in a double ring service performed by Rev Wishart. The bride wore a blue charmeuse gown with coral satin trim and sun burst rose corsage. After a short honeymoon the couple will live with the Fetters until their West Jefferson street home is ready about March first. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs G W Fetters, was a saleswoman at H I Ward. McBride, son of Mr and Mrs W M McBride of Havre, served a year in the service and helps on the family farm. The article also notes social events including a party at Miss Marguerite MacGugin’s in honor of Mr and Mrs Preston Wolfe, a C O C meeting at Mrs I B Coffey’s, and various club gatherings with gifts and entertainment.
David McLaughlin returns home from Des Moines after business stay. O D Walton and wife return to Brighton following wedding of Walton sister Della Fetters to Howard McBride. Reader seeks copies of Ladies Home Journal 1915 November and 1919 December issues. Clement J Eagle plans partnership in Woodlawn grocery after week with parents in valley. Ford service ad announces new cylinder block rebore machine and genuine Ford parts from J F Duffy.
The term sterling traces to Easterlings merchants from Germany who settled east of England. German money was popular during King Richard’s era, minting experts were imported to England, and their coins were called eastertings. Over time the word shortened to sterling.
An American physicist proposes a method to express sound values in watts using a complex setup. A standard sound source or “phone” is tuned by adjusting resonator tone and mica diaphragm tension, as described in the December Popular Mechanics Magazine.
At a Builders' association dinner the president reframed a remark with a proverb about a poor foundation causing eventual collapse, noted by the Boston Transcript.
Vanadium proves highly important for modern engineering in aircraft, submarines, torpedoes and similar work. Its resistance to diverse stresses enables solving difficult elements, with steel alloying as its primary use while also affecting cast iron and copper.
A Country Gentlemen quote features Old Codger mocking the boastful tone of the ignorant who pretend wisdom. He jokes that life ends with wisdom dying, noting such poses appear in horse doctors, grocery store sages, and trifling sons-in-law like his own.
The excerpt describes an elephant killing a victim with harsh detail. It notes the elephant’s poor eyesight but acute hearing and sense of smell, and its heavy, decisive movements as it crushes the body with trunk, tusks, and mass. It ends with the animal stomping the victim into the ground.
The Siamese musical scale divides the octave into seven equal parts and music is learned by ear and passed down traditions rather than written notation. Singers and musicians rely on oral transmission to preserve the scale and tuning practices.
Mildred is admonished by her mother to sit on a chair and reflect on her wrongs. Meanwhile her friend Elizabeth arrives seeking Mildred. Bobbie announces Mildred is busy being sorry and cannot come to the door.
A Boston Transcript note tells of Bobby learning to prefer quality over quantity after his mother advised spending on good candy. He returns with fine pieces and concludes that cheaper candy is not better, highlighting a simple moral about value.
Reports describe a large market for Manchurian marmot skins, valued for their finer coats. Thousands of skins move from regional ports to northern Manchuria by parcel post via the Japanese post office, with cheaper grades shipped by freight.
The piece recounts Michael Varaday and E Whitney’s early work in modest settings. Varaday is described as a famous physicist who made discoveries while in an old apothecary shop and cellar. Whitney is noted for months of work with limited tools on a cotton gin called Boston Posi.
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