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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1922
Page
7
Braden Jan 23 report from Braden area notes the ice harvest at C. M. Maxwell's ice house with help from W I Eicher and John Rich. Neighbors share ice and dinner, ending with ice cream and a merry time. Local visits include Sterling White in Davenport and greetings from Rev. Hanna and wife.
West Chester reports a busy week with visits from business men and locals. The town anticipates 1922 as a strong year, discusses corn prices and fair profit, mentions a well attended Strick Gillilan lecture, and notes basketball games, church activities, and ice yard work amid cold weather.
Mr and Mrs Dawson Crozier of Waterloo visit Mrs Crozier s parents Mr and Mrs S A Walker Corinne Ross of Letts spends Saturday with grandparents Mr and Mrs W T Trotter West Chester high school beats Ainsworth 44 to 6 Ainsworth loses to Olds 39 to 18 Mrs Harry Anderson and Mrs Jean Carden of Osage Iowa attend local events.
Sunday reports show Mabel Borman traveling from Fairfield after Par sons college attendance. Mrs Belle Clegg ill and her daughter remain home while Miss Edna Tobin returns to Colter to teach. Mr and Mrs Bobce Kurtz visit from Washington and Mrs J A Marsh teaches in the absence of Miss Bliven who is at Columbus Junction.
W K Wooley visited Washington yesterday and Earl Zickefoos of Olds was in town yesterday evening. Friday the contract for the new school house will be let with many firms represented. E L Clark has been ill with tonsillitis but is improving.
The domestic science girls concluded cooking courses with a three course dinner for teachers on Tuesday and a six o clock dinner Thursday for Supt Ferrell school board members and J K Dunn. Friday the Wyman basketball team lost to Crawfordsville second team 24 to 16. Saturday the community literary society held a program then an auction in the domestic science room led by T H Huston. Lee Metzeer, exempt from exams, visited home Wednesday night.
E F Eicher J J Rich Ethan Brooks J H Witting filled their ice houses by taking ice from E E Eicher s pond J K Lewichty and J B Roth filled theirs from a pond near Crooked Creek Miss Lydia Mast visits Stringtown Misses Literary at the Stringtown school postponed for basketball at Crawfordsville Mr and Mrs J W Widmer Noah at Joe Graber home south of Wayland logs hauled to Swartzendruber mill Noah Ed Wyse J W Widmer and P R Schantz Ed Widmer family at Henry Yoder home Austin Snell delivers corn to Eli Spendel at 40 cents per bushel
Jan 21 RITRAT area notes show Mr and Mrs Chas Kephart and Mr and Mrs Ed Simmering with twins Helen and Hazel visiting Robert Kephart in Washington. Jan 23 Rev B W Pettit from Albia stayed at the Kephart Simmering home. Quilting at Charlie Kephart and Ed Simmering home. Oyster supper planned by Pleasant Hill church youth class and invited young women.
Mr and Mrs T L Dodds and family attended preaching services in Washington Sunday and visited their daughter Miss Lola Dodds after. Mr and Mrs Elmer Kephart and Mr and Mrs Robert Kephart of Washington spent last Wednesday at the Charlie Kephart and Ed Simmering home. Ed Chalupa visited Saturday and Sunday with his brother George Chalupa and family.
Miss Ruth Fall of Cincinnati is a renowned toy maker in the Midwest. A Cincinnati public school teacher in manual training she designs carves and paints wooden toys after school hours turning hobby into a paying venture with broad appeal to both children and adults.
A reflective line on why ants and humans wage long conflicts. The speaker contrasts instinctual ant behavior with human capacity to be taught to love, noting ants have no instruction to love.
Johannesburg correspondent reports a native with growing horns from the Rand. The horns develop by age nine and continue despite eating. The case draws Jew inierest and implies possible shipment to Europe.
A Mochi Tokyo survey of 980 women finds beauty of kimono as the top pleasure, theater as next, visiting friends and good food also ranked highly. Only 30 admitted greed for wealth, while 50 favored nature’s beauty.
Emmanuel Zifroni, a Jewish physician, poet, astronomer and mathematician, flourished in late twelfth and thirteenth century Rome. Quoted by H Poltictinico in the Medical Record, he is thought to have been on friendly terms with Dante and to have influenced a proposed epic poem called Mechoberoth detailing a Jew's journey through hell and heaven with the prophet Dante.
Professor W J Humphreys explains that rainbows require both rain and sunshine. Convectional showers, common in summer, provide the mix, while general storms are rarer in summer, so rainbows appear more in summer and less in winter.
Thomas B. McAdams of the American Bankers Association urges bankers nationwide to support farmers through sound business practices. He says world markets will rise in the fall of 1922 and American prosperity depends on agricultural strength, urging credit for seeds, fertilizer, and equipment. He warns against paternalism and stresses restoring purchasing power to farmers as the path to national recovery.
A desperate man with stomach and liver trouble cites five years of illness and family support strain. A cousin in Columbus credits Mayr's Wonderful Remedy with improving health after using it, declaring it simple and harmless. The ad promises one dose proves results and offers a money refund through Lemmon's Pharmacy and other druggists.
Readable excerpt offers corn meal based dishes from the US Department of Agriculture. Recipes include Comm Meal Puffs with milk eggs sugar and nutmeg baked in cups serving six. Corn Meal Writters fried batter using extra corn meal. Corn Meal Pancakes mixing flour, corn meal and leaveners with boiling water and milk, then eggs and butter for six servings.
The passage describes making corn meal waffles with white corn meal sugar baking powder and melted butter. It instructs boiling the meal for 20 minutes then adding milk beating yolks and whites separately and cooking on a greased waffle iron. It claims the waffles are better than wheat flour only versions.
In a brief dialogue Miss Cayenne challenges Mies Pepter on the idea of henge as an intellectual game. Pepter responds that after reading certain books they lack the courage to attempt it. The exchange hints at a cautious stance toward the pursuit of the obscure concept.
A brief quotation expresses the idea that peace must be earned on earth rather than anticipated in heaven and that efforts toward peace on earth deserve blessing. The speaker emphasizes earthly responsibility for harmony.
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