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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1929
Page
4
A 1920s style guide describes installing a rear yard table with rough surface to prevent slipping. It suggests using candy dishes as food bowls for corn wheat crackers and fruit scraps, then calling the birds gently. A flicker visits, while observers watch from a window.
An observer recalls birds eagerness for crackers apples and corn flakes, with flickers and sparrows visiting while plans to feed them next morning include corn wheat millet buckwheat sunflower seeds and even tallow. Mr Treitenbinch remarks feeding birds is fun for both humans and birds.
A fragment shows a reflective New Year motto about guidance and safety, alongside statistics on U S education spending: cost of education at 9 million, 705 thousand in 1925, enrollment rates, government spending shares, and borrowed sums for schools through 1926. It mixes poetry, classroom data, and jokes in a single column fragment.
The excerpt teaches pronoun order in phrases like You and she and I are going and warns pronouncing i as in it not as in die. It lists synonyms for idle and lazy and urges mastering one word at a time to plan their progress.
A fast moving spectacle titled The Fight to the Finish is announced for Friday evening at the Ottumwa gym with Captain Fisher and Dick Davis leading the red hot act. Reserve seats now as the event promises entertainment and local intrigue.
The monologue jokes about a tasteless cod liver oil knocking kids out of a nickel and ponders President Coolidge's post March 4. It imagines him as a useful silent partner for someone, in a light humorous aside.
A fragmentary newspaper page recalls a social mix up at a wedding with quips about a groom’s friend and the bride’s mother. It weaves in stray anecdotes from a train ride and an old man paying fare, alongside a jumble of humorous vignettes about odors foods and daily life.
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