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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1919
Page
7
Local brief items from Washington County cover comings and goings, including short notes on births and deaths, personal notes, and other life events. Read as a digest of everyday happenings across multiple communities.
A mosaic of community updates from Wellman and nearby towns. Farm sale details report Chas Harris of What Cheer selling the Zillmer farm southeast of town at 285 per acre for 120 acres. Various visits, travels, illnesses, and minor accidents fill the week.
Visitors arrive for family gatherings including Mrs Jessie Longwell at her granddaughter Mrs Will Lisney and Miss Arsulla Dunham visiting relatives. Girl Scouts plan a July musical at Majestic Theatre. Park Hotel receives repainting and revarnish. Local gardens benefited by cool spells.
Ainsworth residents note travels to Kansas City for visits with Willis and Frank Trotter. Attendees of the Taft lecture in Washington include Bert Marsh and others. Miss Lelia Rhodes returns home from Jefferson Iowa for vacation. OES plans a picnic for July 1. Mrs. Bessie Corbet visits George Thoma while Marietta Workman and children visit J. A. Marsh in Riverside.
Mrs. J. F. Evans of New York City visits her old friend Mrs. L. H. McWarland in Crawfordsville. Ralph Moorhead and Glenn Cherryholmes return home after receiving honorable discharges from service in France. Dana Barnes travels to Culver Indiana for a summer military school.
David W Griffiths Artcraft photoplay The Greatest Thing in Life shows love and war with Lillian Gish and Robert Harron in a Graham theatre presentation. The drama uses a Western front setting and an American cast to explore the theme of what is the greatest thing in life.
A compact note notes the world as a stage and cites Boston Tran script remarking on the revolving stage as a modern notion. The line implies performance culture and shifting views on drama.
An aircraft owned by Emmett Johnson and William Roshall from Davenport landed on the Ottumwa country club links at 7 30 PM en route to Kansas City. The plane nosed in after a 20 yard roll, breaking its propeller. both pilots were shaken but unharmed. Crowds gathered, repairs were arranged, and the machine remained at Ottumwa for the night awaiting a new propeller. The flight halted earlier when fuel ran out near a Milwaukee terminal and forced a hay field landing.
The hornbill female lays eggs in a tree hollow and is then walled in by the male with clay leaving only the head exposed. He feeds her until the young hatch and grow large enough to emerge.
A deserted wife recalls four years since her husband left. She says she remembers the moment vividly when he stood at the doorway holding it open until six o’clock, as the house fell quiet after his departure, reported by the Boston Transcript.
A compact reflection on walking as a source of pleasure. The author extols the simple act, praising rhythmic hills and flats that refresh body and spirit in a cadence of movement.
Premier Kehara of Japan acknowledges reports of Korean massacres are factual and says those involved have been punished after an interrogation by the kensei kai, a major political party.
In a dry dark box two year old potatoes sprout new growth from the old tubers after a few weeks. The new potatoes keep growing until the old ones dry into shriveled skins.
The article argues the postwar economy should be guided by common sense rather than rigid need. It notes wartime constraints forced less consumption and suggests buying three corsets instead of one signals true economy.
United States researchers report experiments on fast breathing of pure air that allegedly produces anaesthetic effects and temporary pain immunity. The effect ends when breathing ceases, but with training a person might induce sleep by brief sessions of rapid breathing.
The text describes an early keyboard instrument resembling a grand more than an upright, sometimes with two key rows. It lacked pedals, used quills to pluck wires instead of hammers, and offered about four octave range, later expanded as improvements continued.
The text explains that in a vacuum all bodies fall at the same speed while air resistance makes heavier or denser objects fall faster in air. It asserts that gravity acts on all molecules and that the observed difference between stone and feather is due to air, not intrinsic weight.
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