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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1921
Page
7
Local items report visits, harvest activity, and community events across Haskins Rubio and Washington. Notable notes include a forged check case involving two young boys, families visiting relatives in Oregon and Kansas, and ongoing crop and home maintenance updates.
Brighten society notes recount Edna Martin returning from Galesburg and Arthur Parks visiting Cedar Rapids from Wapello as well as newborn Ruth Hoover at home of Glen Hoover. Several residents travel to Wisconsin and Fairfield while a scarlet fever quarantine affects the Spellman home. A fire alarm prompt near the Mes senger home ends with minor damage and a car collision after a band concert near the State Bank corner.
The Children's Day exercises are set for Sunday at the Lexington church at 11 a.m. Preaching at Pilotsburg at 9 a.m. and at Zion Center at 2 p.m. A vacation school runs Fridays 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Attendance earns a diploma. Zion Center community picnic planned for Monday July 4 at Clarke Bell home with a music and recitation program. Ivan Cameron Thom, pastor.
Northeast of Washington the Bethel Presbyterian Church schedules Sunday school at 10 60 a m and preaching services at 11 00 a m Pastor C M Diefenbach leads the congregation.
Bible school at 10 a m. Preaching at 11 a m. Communion service follows. Union services at 2 p m in churches listed alphabetically for July and August. Prayer services dismissed in both churches for two months. Teacher's Training Friday evening. You are welcome to worship here. E A Anderson, pastor.
New Haven Baptist invites all to Bible school at 2 p m and preaching at 3 p m led by pastor E A Anderson. Everyone welcome to attend and participate in the church activities.
Prairie Flower Baptist announces Bible school at 10 a m and P B A at 11 a m. No midweek service for July and August. A hearty welcome to worship. E A Anderson pastor.
Dr. W W Bowers will preach on Sunday July 3 at 2 36 oclock in Eureka The service follows a 1 30 PM Sunday school session with the preacher listed for the event.
The president Montgomery of Parsons College will deliver a sermon at 11 o clock offering a pastoral address.
Iowa shows fewer farms but larger average size over fifty years. Farm numbers declined from 228,622 in 1900 to 213,439 in 1920, while acreage per farm rose from 181 in 1910 to about 157 in 1920, with a dip in 1910. War conditions briefly disrupted rotation and grain output.
Biographical and fight records for Marcel Carpentier born 1894 Lens France and Jack Dempsey born 1895 Manassa Colorado list bouts by year with outcomes and opponents including KO wins losses and exhibitions through 1920. Includes dates locations opponents and event results across multiple years.
Douglas Fairbanks creative aim drives The Nut a new pattern original story for the camera and comedy devices. Set in Greenwich Village New York the film follows an eccentric inventor who uses gadgets to win the heroine. The Nut opens Monday July 4 at the Fox Theatre in a two day engagement.
Police confiscated a copper fifty gallon mash apparatus described as the largest still in captivity. Estimated daily production of hooch could reach 15 gallons under the distiller's three eight hour shifts. Suspect Michael Zivanovich faced a judge and was bound over on $6,000 bond.
Milwaukee Journal recalls the early reception of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as potentially harmful to youth. The New York public library later listed it among essential works, while major libraries like Boston’s initially refused to circulate it, citing harm to young minds.
Tanlac, a celebrated medicine, is claimed to have broken sales records with over twenty million bottles sold in six years across the United States and Canada. The ad cites international fame and reports of restored health in sufferers from stomach liver and kidney disorders, plus relief from indigestion headaches and depression, with Sherman Bros. Pioneer Drug Store in Washington selling it.
Reports say a clique of moonshiners plan to seize a still believed to be valuable. People differ on superstition about robins. some Germans think a robin near the house guards against fire while others view it as a bad omen.
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