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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1928
Page
5
A listing of radio station schedules across the country for Friday including KDKA Pittsburgh WIZ WJZ R V B and WEAF New York with times musical offerings orchestras and featured artists. Clinton Iowa notes county chicken thief tattoo siren urging feather tattooing to deter thefts with 25 percent potential reduction.
A Gospel lesson from Mark 2 covers Jesus preaching the Word, forgiving sins, and healing a paralytic. He asserts divine authority to forgive and demonstrates power through the palsied man and Levi’s call, dining with publicans and sinners.
A London dateline outlines global methods of capital punishment. Hanging remains dominant in the British Empire and the United States, with other practices including the guillotine in France, Hanover, and Rhine provinces, beheading in China, the hand axe in parts of Prussia, the gas or gazotte in Spain, and shooting in Russia. The piece notes public executions, the swift methods, and historical anecdotes about executioners' roles.
A Christian exponent reflects on divine schooling and preparation for earthly and eternal tasks. The speaker urges faithful work in the present place, whatever it may be, as the core duty of believers.
A brief note by Timberlake urges persistent prayer to seize God's blessing. It emphasizes steadfast, unyielding supplication until the promise is realized. The message frames prayer as a firm, unwavering pursuit of divine favor.
Havre reports a farewell party at the Joe McGinnis home and a misc shower for Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Donaldson by the Sunshine Community club. Walter Gardner is ill, plans a health trip west, and Will Stafford faces poor health with a closing out sale set for Jan. 26. The Beet family notes trades, moves, and hog shipments to Chicago from Havre last week.
Wellston January reports show Joseph Richardson traveling to Muscatine Thursday evening Archer Augustine working nearby Chas Shalla cutting wood Frank McClellands Friday activity Mrs Ernest Hammer visiting Washington Beulah Miksch has returned and others noted in community column.
An ad features Ardenia Howard praising Adlerika for rapid relief from indigestion and stomach gas. It claims the product acts on both upper and lower bowels to remove old waste matter and improve well being, with Sherman Bros. Druggists selling the remedy.
Route-Six activity includes Mrs Will McBeth visiting Trenton Ia with her daughter Mrs Jarrard. Clyde Fishburn helps move a brother to the B F Brown farm vacated by Herman Myers. Jan 10 booster club host a meeting. Jan 17 closing out sale billed for Sam McKee. Washington shoppers Roy Finke George Bishop canvass area for E B Dahlstrom Wellman.
Farmers listed among locals while Milo Shalla stays with his parents. Gladys and Dorothy Turnipseed vacationed in Washington with their grandmother Mrs. Noecker. Mission Circle plans to serve lunch at the Henry Horning sale on Jan 9. Friends receive calendars from Teets Bros Chevrolet Co Kalona. Prayer meeting held at the church. Miss Kathryn Bishop visiting her sister Mia Riordan west of Lexington.
Social notes from Brighton list visitors and callers including Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tucker and Ruth Evalyn, Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson and Susie, Mr. and Mrs. Will Dunbar, and Fred Garrett. A Raymond Richard shower was held at Archie Farrier’s home. Ferne Dunbar visited Clara Garrett. Mrs. Ralph Tracy is ill. Flora Dunbar and Ruth visit for the week. Oscar Carlson has a new business gall er in Brighton. John Goodwin, father of Mrs. Taylor Stout, shows improvement after illness.
Mr and Mrs C A Fishburn and daughter Irene were Washington callers Tuesday. Mrs Ray Bell has returned from a trip with local neighbors noted in the Union District update.
Noted chemist Dr. W. S. Landis asserts under American conditions the cyanamid process fixes air nitrogen most cheaply for fertilizer. He says it remains the only workable American method, amid debates over Muscle Shoals fertilizer plans and claims of obsolescence for older cyanamid methods.
The 1910 to 1917 shifts raised nitrogen content from 16–17 percent to 21 percent, with Niagara Falls plant now averaging 23.5 percent. While electro chemical advances boosted nitrogen capture, labor use remained steady. European methods employ more workers per ton, whereas the cyanamide process relies on cheap materials and power with less labor. Dr Landis argues no fertilizer-grade nitrogen is produced in America by other processes.
A December 1925 Muscle Shoals Inquiry report suggests average delivered fertilizer costs could drop by about 16.03 dollars per ton, roughly 43 percent of the 1924 price, due to cheaper production, profit limits, and cooperative buying. Freight and handling savings from concentration are a major factor. A 13 percent ammonia and 45 percent phosphoric acid mix is produced at Niagara Falls and Warners New Jersey, with much of its output sold abroad. one bag equals 3.69 bags of nitrate soda and 16 percent acid phosphate in plant food.
The Harris county report mentions Ameal Chabal aiding John Kurtz with cattle moved to John Rittenhouse’s pasture. Mr. and Mrs. John Rittenhouse visited Mrs. John Kurtz while Mr. Rittenhouse attended the Malichly sale. S. J. McKee plans a closing out sale January 17. Several locals including Walter Horning Paul Benson Eleanor Maas and Richard Helen Myers were absent from school due to illness.
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