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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1921
Page
4
The piece lampoons anti tobacco activists and defends smoking as a soothing escape. It sketches a narrator anxious about losing his pipe while arguing tobacco brings peace to many homes and calms nerves despite social pressure and moralizing.
A column notes rapid weather swings from snow to warm southerly winds causing slick roads and near accidents. Citizens compare gear to zero degree attire while a gray cat and other domestic animals wear indoor and outdoor clothing in the changing springlike day.
The text argues clothing is essential for daily life and survival. It claims more clothing makes us both colder or hotter and that discarding attire would regress civilization. It asserts that fashion and civilization evolved together and that abandoning clothes would set humanity back.
Dr. Joseph Cochran and his wife Bernice Gregg Cochran departed Odebult Iowa for Persia as medical and general missionaries. They expect an eight year stay, traveling via Atlantic crossing and the Mediterranean to Port Said, then onward to Persia. Mrs Cochran is a niece of Paul Shultz.
A cloudburst is a sudden copious rainfall, as if the whole cloud precipitated at once. Water spouts are bursting rain-clouds with whirlwinds that whip the rain into dense whirling columns.
Local echo shows residents like Emmy Pash and Pinky Kerr discussing holiday purchases. Emmy notes people read less at home during Christmas, while Pinky Kerr spent eighteen dollars on a qt today.
The 1920 year end accounting for the County Home lists itemized receipts from local growers and merchants and a total expenditures figure of 24 681 81. It also provides a January 1 1921 property inventory including livestock and farm implements valued at about 30 473 25. J W Parrow chairs the Board and A L Griffith is clerk.
The excerpt likens climbing a ladder to life and ambition. It frames ambition as risky when built on weak foundations and suggests the moral of balance between effort and stability in progress. The piece references Ethel Clayton and her latest star vehicle with an admonition about foundations.
The American Forestry Magazine of Washington D C says the chief mechanical cause of forest fires is locomotives raising road through woodlands. Fires from portable steam mills and similar engines are negligible in comparison to the total.
Corrected to November 21 1920 the railway schedule lists arrivals and departures for several lines including No. 4, 12 Express, No. 60 Lo. Pass, No. 80 Lo. Frt, No. 88 Lo. Frt, and Washington Branch with daily runs except Sundays and special notes on Tuesday and Thursday services. Local freight Nos. 835 836 838 89 and local passengers Nos. 429 430 460 operate daily except Sunday. Lodge meetings include Washington Lodge No. 26 A F and A M and Cyrus Chapter No. 18 R A M with regular meetings on the first and second Fridays respectively and Damascus Shrine No. 10 W S of J with meetings on the last Thursday each month.
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