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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1929
Page
4
President Coolidge’s final budget talk urged strict economy and warned against rising municipal, county, and state expenses. He called for scientific study of local government to curb costs and reduce local taxation amid postwar spendthrift trends.
The speaker argues that people demand essential public services and better living conditions, including schools, roads, health, water, parks, and sewers. He calls for economical local government, efficient public labor, and reduction of graft to prevent high taxes, asserting honest service is never wasteful.
A college student in Oklahoma narrowly escapes a robbery attempt but is killed in the fracas. The offender, later identified as a high school chum, faces trial with the community mourning the loss and reflecting on the tragedy.
A garbled quotation mixes medical misdiagnosis with holiday imagery and political satire. The text references appendicitis, a patient, and mentions Mussolini, a Fascist press headline, and a Brooklyn Eagle source, all tangled in a fragmented, speechlike fragment.
In a noisy collage a reader shares stray lines from a newspaper page including questions about love in December and June a streetcar encounter a child’s joke about cattle and appetite a trainer story a horse show and a math pun. Notices include a district court petition dissolution of a cooperative store and a dissolution notice with dates and names.
Abe Martin jokes about appointing Dame Fashion as secretary of the navy to keep a new cruiser from becoming obsolete until it gets the skids. The column then shifts to a comic miscue involving Miss Tawney Apple who set out to visit her grandfather but turned back after twenty-one miles when her cigarette lighter ran out of energy.
Physicians warn lingering colds threaten weakened patients with bronchitis sinusitis pneumonia or meningitis especially harmful to children and the elderly. Immediate care is urged with VapoRub applied externally at first signs of a cold followed by rest fluids and warm coverings to aid vapor inhalation and skin absorption.
In a cautionary riff the quote argues against bad habits and corrupt reading. It warns that youth tempted by vice faces a harvest of disillusion and urges avoidance of reading trash and forming bad associations to keep the mind clear.
Announcements show a Presbyterian church social on Friday with Mrs Ella Gordon at 311 Ave. A U and 1 club meeting with Mrs Ed Myatt on Friday Feb 1. A regular Rebeka meeting is planned for Friday. A church rehearsal is set for Thursday at 7 o clock.
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