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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1921
Page
9
State Chairman H C Wallace of the Y M C A issued a call for about thirty executive committee members to meet in Des Moines Wednesday to choose his successor. The agenda includes boys work factory and shop activities physical culture rural expansion church cooperation and boosting religious life.
A Duayton News item mocks a professor who claims to have created a lie detector from Adam's rib. The note jokes the device resembles a long-known earlier machine and lampoons the scientific fuss surrounding it.
Fire gutted the King theatre building in Albia on Sunday afternoon. Origin undetermined, blaze discovered about 1 o clock, fire department unable to stop it. The loss, now only partially covered by insurance, threatened nearby home of Mrs S M King. The Adams Theatre company operated the venue, a civic and cultural hub for the community.
The annual Finkbine Kuehnle dinner hosted by William Finkbine and Carl Kuehnle will be held Tuesday February 8 at the Jefferson hotel in Iowa City. About one hundred representative men from the University of Iowa will attend alongside presidents of student organizations, deans, the university editor, the commandant and athletic coaches with Prof. Forest C. Ensign in charge.
The Journal mentions carrier boys Harold Ross Donald Ross Victor Freding Hal lie Ward Malcolm Dowell Bruce Logan Robert Mc Clellan James Fulton Farle Fulton Dale Ecker man and Fred Starr. A woman praises Nyal Wila Cherry cough syrup for her children noting it aids coughs and colds.
Iowa towns urge the legislature to amend the auto tax distribution so funds can be used for local road building. Speaker Arch W. McFarlane opposes reallocating away from counties, arguing rural areas would be starved of highway money. He suggests local wheel taxes as a potential city funding method.
Multiple short items list visits, auctions, sales and services in Washington area. Mentions Mrs J P Cummings Ottumwa visit, L F HendersonRichland trip, Katherine Montgomery Brighton trip, Arthur Therion farm auction next Monday, Mrs Nichol son funeral in Des Moines, Rothschilds clo thing and tires ads, Kelly tires, winter coats, auto garage services, a new baby, and local business notices.
George Clapper a fireman at the high school building is seriously ill and was taken to the county hospital. Other notices mention local visits, sales pitches for spring suits at Rothschilds, tire shop vulcanizing at Brown's, and Beruns Seed and Bevins ads with various names and places including Ottumwa Cedar Rapids Maquoketa and West Chester.
Local notices report Union Barber Shops restoring prewar rates with hair cut at 40 cents and shaving at 20. Other items include women’s wool dresses priced at 15 to 20 dollars, and various ads for Lemmon’s Pharmacy Rothschild’s and Brown’s Tire Shop. Community updates mention Howard Freshwaters visiting West Chester and Mr Mrs Claire Dewey visiting Galveston then Corpus Christi.
Iowa social workers physicians nurses and teachers join 500 delegates in Des Moines January 28 and 29 for the Iowa Tuberculosis and Housing associations convention. Sessions at the Savery Hotel include expert speakers on pending housing and health legislation and county reports. An opening joint session features O E Klingaman and other officials with Friday night dinner for delegates.
Mr Cook proprietor of the bakery and restaurant on the north side of the square advocates saving pennies. He collects many pennies in his penny sack and notes pennies can grow into dollars with semi annual interest. Try this yourself and see your penny pile grow.
A Colorado Springs Telegraph quote notes that experience is the sole teacher who can demand and obtain its own price, implying value comes with time and practice.
Sioux City Iowa January 19 Professors Hayes argues that theatre under proper supervision can be a force for good and that current stage offerings reflect audience demand. He calls for a public push for clean drama rather than banning theatrical attendance.
Washington January 19. Several supporters of bills to regulate future exchanges told reporters they do not expect passage this session due to time constraints. Hearings by the House Agriculture Committee will continue with two witnesses remaining. Herbert Hoover will testify Thursday and Clifford Thorne of the American Farm Bureau Federation will testify Tuesday.
A brief aphorism stating that sin uses many tools but a shared handle fits them all, attributed to Holmea. The line suggests a moral critique of vice and its unifying motive.
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