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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1931
Page
4
Dr Blanchard told Rotary listeners that lawmakers regulate personal conduct and liberties too much. He suggested prohibition laws may overstep legitimate powers, while critics say laws aim to enforce morality. He noted alcohol causes social harm when drinkers lose self control and infringe others rights.
In reflective prose, Dr. 8. P. Telford contrasts human achievement with divine sufficiency. He invokes John 15 5 and Acts 17 23 to argue that without Christ nothing can be done, highlighting agriculture, construction, aviation, radio, and salvation as domains where God must enable. The piece ends signaling devotion and rights reserved.
An eighty four year old Bournemouth woman Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald reports a glass house improves health and happiness. She has lived in a sunlit greenhouse for four years, walking seven miles daily and feeling fitter than at eighteen, asserting sunlight and absence of doctors support her wellbeing.
A reader recalls an awkward moment in a Montgomery Ward store when a clerk asked about belt size while holding a garter, describing it as embarrassing. The note includes a casual exchange about small change for spring trading and a health tip about candle lighting in cooking.
The excerpt discusses a vocabulary exercise focusing on the word parsonic meaning relating to a parson. It notes misspellings and non synonyms while urging daily word mastery and vocabulary growth through repeated use of a chosen term.
A rambling collection of jokes and anecdotes from a small town, including a Kansas schoolboy satire about editors, a quip about doctors and editors, light social commentary on churchgoing and neighborly behavior, and a detective in Cincinnati chasing a missing soap shipment.
A fragment mentions Burnita Shelton Mathews of the National Women's Party and references research activity and inquiry into timing, with unclear context about a night event and a puzzled line about how long it took.
Wayland and Kalona residents visit relatives while gossip of births illness and funerals fills the week. Subjects include new son Donny Paul at the Hertix home born Jan 6, Henry Shanta baling hay west of Washington, and memorials for Mrs Lynn Schlatter Traxler.
A community page lists numerous visits and celebrations. Mr. and Mrs. Dietrich of Pleasant and Mr. and Mrs. Shumaker with children visited grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Wery in Salem. A joint birthday for Jan 11 and 49th for B. Rhum was celebrated at Mrs. Barr’s with many relatives and friends. Several local families ferried to Kalona and Iowa City for moving chores and business trips, and Miss Mildred Prince returned home after seven months with the Mitchells.
A Detroit News piece notes Mr Pleasant finds satisfaction in car care ritual similar to spinning a buggy wheel after greasing. It mentions vitamin variants Vitamine and vitam in pronunciation debates among medical men and dictionaries.
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