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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1927
Page
4
Thought for Monday centers on creation by God and the Spirit who gave life. A brief meditation anchors on Job 33 4, highlighting divine origin and breath as life. The note reflects a period devotional style with a doxology to the Creator.
The piece questions Illinois rights to appoint a US senator and whether Governor and state can seat a candidate amid a scandal. It notes Colonel Smith’s alleged improper funding and moral lapses, and ponders Congress and state authority in the appointment and primaries.
China undergoes a drawn out rebirth process marked by tension and shifting alliances as it seeks a new domestic order. The piece frames China’s actions as reactions to internal and external pressures, with warnings about consequences for its friends and neighbors.
The piece argues China needs a decisive autocrat to guide the population past ignorance and superstition. It laments slow missionary progress and warns that without firm authority the vast nation risks continued exploitation and mismanagement amid global upheavals.
The character notes three kinds of Christmas based on weather and bootlegger supply, highlighting poverty and obscurity as factors in celebration. Apears as a wry regional observation in a humorous voice.
A collage of humorous vignettes and reader submissions from By the Way. Items include a suggestion about setting a price on hogs and corn, jokes about a town preacher, a livery sign, war era banter, and light verse.
An Oklahoma Indian recounts to a garageman how he drank two bottles of hair tonic while driving home from a town, causing an accident. He notes it took two days to reach home and asks the mechanic to come fix his car.
Dorothy Mackaill and Louise Brooks lead First National’s Just Another Blonde at the Fox Theatre. Ex Follies dancers, they bring glamour from Ruth St Denis and Scandals to the screen with Jack Mulhall in feature and William Collier Jr in second male lead.
William Coffey, 50, a confessed forger and bigamist, admitted he killed his second wife Hattie Sherman Hale and threw her body into the Mississippi River near Dubuque Indiana. Relatives urge murder charges as the body remains unfound.
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