Lord is Good Psalm Verse Excerpt
A devotional note repeats Psalm 100 urging service to the Lord with gladness and song. It emphasizes the Lord's goodness mercy and enduring truth across generations.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1933
Page
4
A devotional note repeats Psalm 100 urging service to the Lord with gladness and song. It emphasizes the Lord's goodness mercy and enduring truth across generations.
A speaker in a grey town describes neighborly stigma for eccentric living. She defends herself claiming retreat into nature and imagination, noting she talks with wood and sky while others cast jealous eyes. The poem portrays outsider wit and resilience.
The National Survey of School Finance warns current public school funding relies too heavily on property taxes, burdening homeowners. It calls for new taxation forms such as sales and income taxes to broaden the tax base and fund education, especially for rural and isolated schools.
Octo argues the family home is the sacred center of life and the best source of happiness. He stresses the family unit over moving picture shows as the foremost social and cultural influence, while not condemning entertainment.
The speaker extols happiness rooted in the family hearth and warns against substituting it. He recounts Henry Grady’s contrast between Washington Capitol glory and a simple country home where a family kneels in prayer, cherishing honesty sobriety purity and thrift as nations defense and source of happiness.
A Louisville Courier-Journal remark notes the hunger marchers’ treatment sets a precedent for handling lobbyists. A Florida Times-Union comparison likens currency to an inflated automobile tire, warning that excess pressure leads to a blowout.
The piece proclaims the farmer as the provider and backbone of America linking agriculture to national strength and prosperity. It describes the farmer as essential in war and peace, nature ally, and divine partner in a grand plan, praised for sustaining civilization and energy.
A daily English lesson presents the terms preparative and inextricable with definitions and usage notes. It highlights common misspellings such as asthma and accommodate, offering synonyms and mnemonic tips for vocabulary growth.
Penny Eldridge and a listener remark on the first public appearance of Washington’s junior high band. The junior college cardinal notes a joint debate with Fairfield on February 7 with simultaneous debates and audience heckling.
An article describes a newspaper man in heaven assigned to the Heaven Daily Gazette by St Peter. He finds the celestial paper well edited and illustrated but lamentably lacking in a column and the saint jokes about the absence of columnists. The piece adds light verse on a sleepy traveler and a village wit remarking on early alarms.
A reflective piece questions the idea of tech driven rule and hypocrisy among learned fact handlers. It muses on a utopian dream and includes a vignette about a woman torn between her husband and furnace. It ends with a statistical breakdown of how a person spends a seventy year life.
A reflective verse fragment speaks of memory’s ghosts and a longing for paths not taken. The speaker contemplates a near sin while confessing a life that feels sinless, as dreams reveal what might have been.
A humorous exchange features a student and professor debating life and electricity. The line about only one path into life and many out of it frames the jest. The anecdote ends with a quip about a man who once knew electricity but has forgotten it.
Poem fragment suggests messengers of love and printers facing grievances without remedy. The archaic verse contrasts heavenly hosts with earthly trades, lamenting lack of redress above.
Havre bakers and families share visits with the Westen and Zieglowsky households. Local students from Havre school join township spelling and declamatory contests with Samuel Wittmer and Marjorie Chalupa among the participants. The Pleasant Hill telephone company held a meeting at the church as roads stay nearly impassable and summer meat supplies rise.
A Palestine page item records multiple local visits and daily chores. Families including Kasper, Kos, Kron, Vondrasek, Havel, Sojka, Lukavsky, Beranek, and Kron are mentioned for visits, butcherings, wood cutting, and hog work around Henry Kiefer and Charles Vondra sek homes. Details note Sunday or Monday activity with neighbors and relatives and Chicago visitor Clara Vondrasek and Jack Rice.
Quote about bringing sunshine to others and its impact. Notes that light and goodness overcome darkness, calling it pleasant work to spread brightness.
A fragmentary note references a shining Angel band and a printers book that shall never enter heaven. Mentions Mrs J H Keating and a greeting of good evening to an unidentified recipient.
Mr and Mrs Daryl Dayton write from Berlin to their parents in this Christmas update. They describe weather like spring with clear skies, church attendance, gifts, and a Don Cossack chorus concert. They mark their anniversary with a Potsdam visit to Sans Souci and Neves Palace, detail palaces interior, tours in German with guides, and New Year revelry in Berlin before attending American music concerts and an upcoming opera.
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