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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1931
Page
4
A lamentsome verse describes a camel as a mournful beast with a shrill voice that could be kept cheerful with roaming freedom from furnace to attic. The speaker imagines elevating the creature and offering figs dates and sweets plus abundant water in a humorous domestic fantasy.
The piece questions Sir George Wilkins plan to use a submarine to dive under the North Pole. It compares to the doomed Andree balloon expedition and notes doubts about navigational control and the value of a polar underwater venture. It concludes the pole dive seems a light, profitless pursuit with hazards and few surface observations.
A fragmentary critique portrays the Senate seeking to reverse presidential choices after confirming power commissioners. The piece rails against Washington antics from a Western vantage point, suggesting a chaotic political cycle.
A missive from Howald R. Griffith recalls Donald R. Griffith visiting the Journal office to collect a waiting half dollar. The author riffs on siblings and a proposed story about his sister and a supper table remark.
The piece questions the motives behind a power commission dispute and notes partisan maneuvering in Senate debates. It recalls historic battles between presidents and the Senate, suggesting the public may not learn the full merits from debates and should wait for clearer winds to reveal the truth.
A compact note explains today's word SOBRIETY defined as the state of being sober and temperance. It quotes Blackstone and emphasizes using a single new word daily to expand vocabulary and improve usage.
A playful column blends rural and city readers with light humor. It invites rural readers to send advice for urban cousins, recalls local vignettes from skating to milk complaints, pranks, and small talk about weather, with puns and friendly banter throughout.
Nathan Strauss a prominent philanthropist merchant and leader of American Jewry died in his San Remo apartment from heart failure and high blood pressure at 82 He had suffered ill health since his wife's death in May and had been bedridden the last two weeks His high impact career included promoting pasteurized milk stations relief work in 1893 World War efforts sending food to Palestine in 1917 and many charitable gifts He helped fund crises via J P Morgan who donated 50000 to assist his relief efforts
Indigent former congressman Robert Cousins aged 72 was treated at University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City after being found unconscious at his Vipton home. Cousins, a nine term congressman and four term state legislator, sought aid for relatives of Maine sinking victims.
In a precautionary move, twelve elite Chicago police riflemen guard a government liquor warehouse holding about $1,000,000 in liquor and prohibition case records. Chief John Norton ordered rapid deployment with rations and blankets, instructing guards to shoot to kill if bandits raid, amid warnings of planned loot by gangsters tied to Al Capone and George Moran.
In McGregor Iowa a car found in a hole in the Mississippi River ice suggests the drowning of Francis Evans aged 36 after he drove across the ice toward Prairie du Chien Wisconsin. Authorities drag the river under the ice to locate his body.
James Jordan aged 5 was struck by a car while hurrying home from Sunday School with two brothers. Driver L. C. Jones was detained during police inquiry into the fatal incident in Des Moines.
Des Moines January 18 Funeral services are planned tomorrow for George Gordaroa a South Side grocer who was shot by a holdup man Saturday night.
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