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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1922
Page
4
A devotional note quotes Matthew 6 31 33 urging readers not to worry about daily needs but to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness and trust that all provisions will be added. The passage emphasizes faith over anxious planning.
The Journal publishes the first of a series of full page Ivory Soap advertisements calling it the largest contract the paper has undertaken. The feature notes the ad’s prominence and artful literary and engraver style, praising its public favor and the paper’s surveyed circulation strength.
A reflective opinion piece condemns the Herrin Illinois massacre as a grave crime exposing state and federal failures. It urges immediate drastic action to apprehend and punish the guilty and protect human life and rights.
ABE MARTIN notes that a full page ad costs money yet some stores avoid it. He observes folks who do not chase prosperity still stay cautious.
Poet notes quiet contrast between past and present entertainments. He recalls reading Shakespeare Pope and Scott by lamplight while now crowds chase film shows and Chaplin at a Chaplinfest. The piece laments loss of old literary evenings to modern distractions.
The piece argues strip mine operators used steam shovels and unskilled laborers while miners demanded coal output stop. It portrays guards, lack of state protection, and a massacre of innocent workers, blaming Illinois authorities and nationwide leaders for failing to protect life and property amid mob violence.
Shorty Hamilton stars in The White Masks a Western screen drama by W M Smith at Fox theatre. Franklyn Farnum leads with Virginia Lee and Al Hart in a tense gripping story praised for its cast and thrilling scenes.
A humorous critique of army mentality testing and the Ionia reformatory report. The piece argues those tests mismeasure intelligence, privileging speed over deep reasoning. It likens exam ludicrousness to flawed wisdom, noting slow thinkers often yield wiser conclusions.
Three year old son of Mr and Mrs Irvan Hand was standing on a wire fence when a hog bit off a toe. Dr Ross supplied serum treatment and the child is not expected to suffer greatly.
In a brisk city vignette a taxicab stops abruptly. A quarrel erupts between a man and a woman inside while the driver and bystanders exchange quips. Betty Anice plans to marry Mr Whosis to reform him amid playful chatter about a wagered reform.
A Michigan editor venting over obituary hypocrisy described a well known citizen as a mild mannered pirate who came at night with another man's wife and joined the church at the first chance. He died singing Jesus paid it all, in an asbestos casket, with palm fans in the grave and a tombstone for hoot owls, while noting a light for every shadow.
A humorous dialogue features John who declares burning a hundred dollar bill, and Demijohn retorts that being a millionaire is easier than paying them. John quips it’s simpler to burn money than settle debts.
A fragmented humor piece shows Pat and a gardener debating a stone basin as a bird bath. Pat challenges the claim while the gardener insists the basin is for birds, with a punch line about a bird distinguishing Saturday night from other times. The text adds stray musings about idleness and a line about Ethel's bathing suit.
A terse exchange signals a decisive moment as one party asks if Jack has received a final response. The other states the answer is still pending and emphasizes a firm rejection. The wording reflects a personal stalemate in a delicate negotiation.
A nostalgic poem fragment recounts an aging mare once swift and beloved, now worn but cherished. It weaves sailor humor and rural scenes with a deaf old woman observing an Italian toasting a peanut roaster, hinting at faded vigor and comic misadventures.
A speaker rejects paying for music saying tunes are inaudible and that a burning smell accompanies the performance. The remark conveys frustration and concern over the event's conditions.
A fragment from a Kansas Industrialist page notes a tense conversation with a guest who feels “thoroughly wound up” while the hostess observes the odd scene. A stray line mentions early rescue and a fringe bathmat used as a dress.
A quip in the Yale Record notes a wife who sings Nearer My God to Thee each morning as she cooks. The joke pivots on a household mishearing of her devotion and the “soiling” of eggs with verses.
A memory of old household items shows a motto picture of God bless our home with a switch behind it a foot stool with horned legs and another stool made from seven tin cans covered in carpet. Bricks wrapped in carpet nettles with sand and a stocking eyes buttons and a bright red dress complete the scene.
A man asks to visit a prisoner and gives a classic kinship puzzle. The guard learns the visitor is the prisoner’s nephew via the statement Brothers and sisters have I none but this man's father is my father's son. The solution is that the visitor is the prisoner’s son.
A couple with two children hides an impending birth as a third baby arrives. The girl is sent away on vacation, and when the event occurs, the father tells the boy by placing a telegram on his desk after a brief pause in conversation. The boy says nothing.
A boy buys a telegram and jokes with his father about a cheaper message. The father notes the 35 cent charge while the boy reveals he sent a telegram to his sister saying it would be a boy. The oddly worded ending mentions Mrs Gleede Dold from Sapent the 4th.
An advertisement claims sensible thinking women no longer doubt Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female ailments. It asserts near every neighborhood has witnesses to its remarkable effects and urges readers to ask a neighbor about its benefits and to try the medicine.
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