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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1923
Page
4
A fragmented listing notes 108 East Main Street with Mutual 44 and figures 12% 69 1.25 and 6.00, indicating a financial or loan related entry in a local notice. The fragment hints at property or company terms but lacks full context.
The passage states Associated Press dispatches credited to this paper are exclusive for republication and all rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved. Local news is included in the publication.
Tuesday March 16 reads Life ants good days urging love and faith to guide speech and deeds. The verse from First Peter 2:19 cautions against evil and deceit while emphasizing virtuous conduct.
The article argues the MecCumber Fordney tariff act boosts domestic order and international usefulness while Europe remains unsettled. It cites Samuel Untermyer, a Democrat veteran who has spent years in Europe and speaks multiple languages, as supporting the tariff’s positive local effects.
The piece portrays Hoboes drifting to the Southland, shabbily dressed and aimless, evading work and court arrest as authorities repeatedly jail them. It laments degraded conditions, condemns theft over labor, and notes increasing numbers amid national unrest, with harsh critique of the ragged population.
The text outlines ambitious schemes for Palestine including hydraulic raising of the Sea of Galilee to sea level, reviving the Dead Sea via a Jordan valley canal, building 2000 miles of motor highways, a Baghdad to Cairo airline route through Syria, and establishing agricultural credit banks to foster prosperity under proper governance.
The passage notes that although other performers like Nat Goodwin are gone, Eddie remains active behind the footlights and continues to amuse audiences and widows with his sensational adventures on stage.
The Fox Theatre presents The Woman Conquers with Katherine MacDonald in a snow bound Northwest City story. Antoinette Donnelly of the Chicago Tribune and New York News proclaims Miss MacDonald the most beautiful woman in the world with backing from Mary Pickford and Madge Bellamy. Bryant Washburn June Elvidge and Mitchell Lewis co star under director Tom Forman.
The long famed comedian Eddie Foy, now elderly, weds a 29 year old Missouri widow. He has many previous marriages and fifteen children. Local readers recall Foy from early touring days as one of America’s premier funnymen.
A garbled old column mixes jokes about California winters and country schooling with references to an author, the Express Company, and a duchess with a glass eye. It also includes couplets about a Stanss and a streetcar horn, ending with humorous quips on pedestrian etiquette.
Readings from junior high papers include John Hawkins identified as the first horse trader La Salle credited with discovering the Mississippi flows into Chicago and a health writer urging walking for longevity.
The excerpt notes a Japanese schoolboy adopting American customs in China but often misuses our words. It introduces traffic Rule No 2 as an example of language and usage issues in translation.
A clipped humorous piece recalls Horatio Reese the miser in a reflective section. It mentions a diner scene with a musician who agrees to play upon request and a playful exchange about dominoes during lunch. The memory nods to the 1919 back to the farm movement.
Dr. McCrory shares tales from the Rotary Club and a joke about a husband suing for divorce and a witty courtroom exchange. The piece includes humorous excerpts on old school buildings, a cartoon devoured by Leigh H. Wallace, and a tenderfoot’s camp misadventures as reported in Boys' Life.
Two farmers recount a pig sale after church. They compare the sale price to their costs including shoot lumber and feed, noting the pig’s summer use. A quip about standing accounts follows. Vacation tomorrow as the ladies run the By-the-way and will show their competence.
In Cleveland Ohio police expect murder charges against one or two persons tied to the death of J McGregor 26 whose body was found shot in an apartment building Saturday. Police questioned three intoxicated men Ollie Chill umpire Robert Burke contractor and George Roedel at the scene after neighbors called authorities.
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