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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1925
Page
4
A devotional verse from Romans 8 13 urges living by the Spirit to overcome the flesh and gain life. A brief meditation ties spiritual discipline to daily conduct with a timeless reminder of faith and renewal.
The essay argues General Butler failed to clean Philadelphia due to political and criminal forces opposing reform. It contrasts big cities like Philadelphia Chicago and New York, urges grassroots pressure from small towns to enforce dry laws, and calls for navy action to uphold constitutional order.
The West Chester celebration featured a well received parade led by Walter Boyer on a Marion Well saddle horse and three old soldiers. The Wayland band performed while firecrackers and outdoor noise challenged the singing. Numerous locals attended, and stories recount meals, visits, and ties to World War I veterans.
Poem notes relief of convalescence from illness and the joy of friends returning, with memories of companions and town life. The speaker expresses fatigue from illness and medicine, and relief as social contact resumes and daily routines restart.
A collage of humorous quips and anecdotes from a late edition, including musings on health at Exelsior, summer heat tips, barbershop jokes, shop banter, and light poetry. It weaves local color with playful lines about bars, movies, hot days, and everyday observations.
Miss Alice Hobart of Center Colorado visited the Rhea home with friends in Crawfordsville. Miss Irene Holmes spent the weekend with friends near Cotter. Mrs Steve Jones and children Dale and Lucile returned from a Sabbath visit in Washington with Mrs Emma Sennett yesterday morning.
Fragmentary text notes caution against forming opinions about an anti or tidbit. The readable lines suggest uncertainty and a refusal to draw conclusions from incomplete information.
Miss Baker a UC student planned to kidnap Mrs. D. C. Jackling wife of a copper magnate and hold her for a $50 000 ransom but police uncovered the scheme before it could be carried out.
A modern business ethos centers on service with a pledge of good faith rather than clever conflict, stressing reliable operations, transparent dealings, and customer trust as the primary competitive edge.
The remark suggests that people honor ancestors by praising them after their death, implying that legacies endure because those individuals are no longer alive to defend or contradict praise. It highlights how memory preserves reputations beyond life.
A reader letter mocks a local beauty contest and boasts of selecting twelve married women to win blue ribbons, naming several men as examples and challenging the Journal to find a better looking group. The piece ends with satirical quips about witches and switches and a joke about a lieutenant governor election.
A brief notice from the N E Ss provides public details for local readers, outlining a forthcoming action and its procedural context. The fragment emphasizes official involvement and the need for community awareness without presenting full specifics.
Witnesses from Washington document a West Chester event where a boy, after borrowing overalls and rushing back, climbed a grease slick pole to win a $3 prize. He started with a good clothes claim, was exhausted on arrival, yet persisted and succeeded.
The strongest electric search light in the world operates on Staten Island as part of the United States Lighthouse Service. On clear nights the beacon has been seen in Philadelphia over 80 miles away.
Varieties cultivated by Native Americans before European contact remain productive in New England today, according to Nature Magazine, yielding harvests comparable to modern varieties maturing in the same period.
Milton Sills returns to the screen as a minister in Madonna of the Streets with Nazimova, an Edwin Carewe production based on W B Maxwell. The Fox Theatre shows both Madonna of the Streets and the Warner Classic How Baxter Butted In featuring Henry Baxter, a shy stammering misfit, and Beulah Dyer in a cosmopolitan want ad setting.
Warner Bros. assembles Henry and Beulah played by Matt Moore and Dorothy Devore with Ward Crane Wilfred Lucas in key roles. White Adda Gleason Turner Savage Virginia Marshall and dog Cameo complete the cast for How Baxter Butted In adapted by Julien Josephson. William Beaudine directs this Warner Classic blending whimsy and comedy.
Professor Bern of Bonn University spoke at the German Philosophers Congress in Heidelberg on mankind 650000 years ago. He traced glacial era art flourishing by 20000 B C and suggests Neanderthals were replaced by a race like modern humans about 40000 C E with a cult of the dead and burial practices to protect the living.
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