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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1930
Page
4
The Byrd expedition confronts a dangerous ice pack barrier, with explorers needing rapid progress northward before winter grips the Antarctic and Arctic regions. The season is short, and a quick relief plan is essential to avoid another winter trapped in sea ice. The world watches closely as urgency mounts.
The piece describes an educational temperance push launched in Chicago by the American Business Men's Foundation led by Charles R. Jones to survey industrial and welfare conditions before and after prohibition. It argues prohibition boosts prosperity, moral life, and consumer buying power, citing Ford Edison Firestone and others, and asks whether the milk drinking alternative is better than liquor.
A playful verse imagines being a bird to roam freely and find dinner on the ground. The speaker cherishes flight and the idea of spending winters in a warmer south.
A man confronts a dead woman after choking her and kicking her lifeless body. He is shocked when she unexpectedly gasps and hums, while a jittery voice inside hints at patient resolve and a taunting line about marking a wife from a rear seat. The fragment ends with cryptic remarks about busy people gathering the consequences of their actions.
A letter from Carroll Davis, 11, from Crawfordsville Iowa, recounts a childhood Sunday School quiz in 1929. He explains his five year old answer Black and White to the question how many kinds of children there are, which amused his father.
Henry Ford shares practical road rules drawn from his driving experience. The guidance emphasizes courtesy, awareness, obeying traffic laws, signaling, and adapting to conditions. It urges drivers to consider pedestrians, stay alert at crossings and schools, and avoid risky passes while knowing the law.
Five year old Edna from Clarksville Arkansas jokes that her hair grows fast because "Mamma watered it just yesterday" after an aunt comments on her hair. The note adds a light hometown humor tone.
The article notes that many deaths of prohibition officers result from ambush or after arrests. It cites 155 bootlegger deaths involving 202 officers, with about half exonerated by officials. It details outcomes: 33 acquitted by state courts, 16 by federal courts, six officers sentenced, and mentions customs inspectors shot by smugglers.
Iowa leads in wealth with a taxable economy over twelve billion dollars and 688 million bushels of grain in 1926. Factories worth over eight hundred million dollars and 450 million invested in plants boost the state, while farms exceed eight and a half billion in value across 208 thousand farms averaging 160 acres.
Vocabulary note defines aptitude as natural or acquired capacity for a task. It cites fitness and tendency and gives an example stating his aptitude for the work was obvious.
By The Way proposes a Ladies Day for The By-the-way and asks if women would enjoy a wit sparring match with male “humilists” while noting some view correspondence schools with skepticism. It urges readers to feed birds during snow and ice.
Three men the Englishman the German and the American write treatises on elephants reflecting their methods. The Englishman hunts five years in Africa and drafts two volumes while the German studies libraries for twenty years and composes eight volumes. The American stays at home writes a single illustrated pamphlet titled Bigger and Better Elephants. Elmer notes unfair coverage of a local incident at the Y volleyball game as an unprintable but intriguing detail.
An amused locker room anecdote recalls a player finding his underwear missing after a shower as another teammate casually buttons on the presumed replacement. The cold night and humorous mischief prompt speculation about further plans.
A playful vignette features a girl asking a street urchin his name and the urchin replying Moses. The column closes with a light, homespun reminder to keep troubles tempered and a breezy sign off from X A.
Chicago seeks a 50 million dollar loan to pay workers coal for heat and keep schools open. City faces bond delays, unpaid county salaries, and teachers pay on a day when tax payments are blocked by a broader financial crisis. Mayors and officials blame reformers and each other amid bankruptcy fears.
A one legged Exeter City supporter traveled 200 miles by foot over more than nine days from Exeter to Walsall to witness his team lose the football match at Walsall.
Cranston depot five miles east of Conesville will close February 1 after twenty years in service. W G Davis, agent, will transfer to a station near Ottumwa.
Feeder buyers from nearly every state continued purchases at the National Western livestock show in Denver. More than $1,000,000 worth of stock traded in five hours of bidding yesterday, with a similar amount expected today as interest cools on the grand champion load of feeder steers.
The Barbarian's Brothers of Elbert Colorado own the reserve champion speed and sold it to F. W. Yarding of Gays, Lid. for 19.25 dollars per ent, one dollar above the grand champion lead. Mrs. Laula Long Combs of Lee's Summit Missouri widened her lead over rival Mrs. A C Thompson of Chicago by taking three firsts at two National Western Horse Show performances. Entries from Mrs. Thompson's stables won two blue ribbons. Combs now has 11 first prizes to Thompson's six. Mary Fiers of Oklahoma City, third contestant in the Queen title, has won four first places.
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