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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1920
Page
5
Indian bureau experts report a substantial rise in population, with the 1916 and 1917 births exceeding deaths and the government expanding health funding. Dr. Lawrence W. White argues the Indian is not a dying race but a flourishing one due to schools, hospitals, and better living conditions.
Ben Lady and Lester Stebbins chase harvest pay in Kansas City, then Kansas wheat fields. Facing scarce jobs, they pool funds with four others, buy meals, and secure work on a farm sixty miles from Kansas City. Ben reports better meals, plans to hit South Dakota fields after. Evenings blur with work and rest, no cinema detours.
A colonial-era note describes Burmese women of Padang elongating the neck by brass rings. A child wears a wire necklace with added rings until age fifteen, with longer necks valued for marriage. Girls with necks over a foot long are rare.
A common view misstates indigestion as only a stomach issue. The passage argues that every organ tissue and nerve can be affected to a considerable degree.
DES MOINES July 10 Announcement by the state board of control that the new juvenile or parental home for unfortu nate and neglected children at Toledo Tama county will soon be ready for occupancy The last legislature appropriated funds to purchase buildings formerly Western college later Leander Clarke College The college belonged to the United Brethren denomination and one of its early presidents was William Beardshear now former president of the State College at Ames The Toledo site offers a high eminence over the county seat and has been remodeled at substantial cost Judges and social workers have urged a place for boys and girls without serious offenses who still need supervision The completed home will place Iowa at the forefront in parental care for neglected children
Miss Sara Greenhalgh under the Red Cross reports 1985 children in Emmet county were examined and more than half show physical imperfections. 27 have defective teeth, 545 enlarged tonsils, 278 defective eyes, and only 375 drink milk daily. Parents largely unaware, but the program aims to cure defects with tact. The effort mirrors past findings at Camp Dodge and aims to improve youth health statewide. The Iowa State Teachers’ Placement Bureau reports saving 50,000 dollars with 2,800 spent, aiding 1258 teachers and 472 school boards. A Des Moines note warns stock sale schemes risk federal taxes and legal issues. Des Moines will host US Army recruiting HQ for Iowa, Col. R. H. Perry to lead.
Major L G Ward reports Iowa shifts: Davenport headquarters to close and the area will join Omaha then Des Moines. Also notes YWCA Lake Okoboji camp outbreak of scarlet fever interrupts plans for 200 girls, with 21 day quarantine and possible August reopening. Union County leads Iowa in France aid with 217.68 dollars, Clinton, Marshall, Dubuque, Story and Boone contributing smaller amounts. Iowa’s overall quota is 3000 dollars.
Shipped by fast boat to New York and then by railway express to Leeds a suburb of Sioux City two cars of the famous Swiss goats recently reached their destination from Switzerland. The shipment valued at 30000 dollars in Switzerland rose by the time it reached its destination by express. The goats are of the milking strain and were sent to the state to stimulate interest in the goat industry. The largest herd of milk goats in the state was at Fort Dodge before this arrival.
In Britt Hancock county the Methodist church begins a four week vacation school for all pupils from kindergarten through fourth grade with 8 30 to 11 30 sessions five days a week. Miss Nellie Terry and Miss G Taylor will teach, Miss Caroline Weiland directs the kindergarten music, a 25 cent family fee is charged, and the program includes supervised games Bible stories dramatization and religious instruction. Also noted are travels of Paul M Hinkhouse and state rifle tryouts at Camp Dodge with provision of guns to clubs and attendance expected.
State University authorities face a housing squeeze as Currier Hall rooms are fully booked for next year and few new houses have been built. With enrollment expected around 5,500, the campus must fit students despite high labor and material costs and exhausted rooming facilities. A separate Kossuth county case seeks 10,000 dollars damages from Lone Rock Telephone Co. over a disputed high transmission line parallel to telephone lines.
Correspondents report in Brighton on July 9 recount travels and moves. Mrs Tracy Fenner heads to Ottumwa then Cedar Rapids to settle. Mr Fenner lands a job at Sash and Door and buys a home. Visitors include Miss Pauline Downs from Los Angeles and others visiting relatives, with several relocations noted and post office remodeling underway.
A brief Dallas News observation comments that a girl’s complexion can be turned pinkish to resemble a salmon salad, a colorful if odd social remark from the era.
Storm Lake will host the annual encampment of the Fourth Iowa Infantry during August, with 1,000 to 1,200 men including a troop of mounted cavalry. The camp and parade ground will be on the W. C. Edison farm near the lake, and the rifle range will be three miles south of the Country Club grounds, with five days of range work planned.
Newton July 10 Ray Gibford head of Gibford Chemical Co faces a $250,000 alleged swindle as stockholders seek injunctions to freeze remaining notes. Attorney C A Pratt and Newton lawyers push for court action while Gibford remains missing. The scheme involved fictitious plant profits and a fake patent for Santo swine remedy, with notes used as evidence of solvency and later routed to bonding companies.
Fred Niblo, often casting with wife Enid Bennett, is hailed as a one star director. He defies the label by steering Sex, Louise Glaum’s latest vehicle, to Fox Theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday, with previews praising it as his finest directing achievement.
Louise Glaum’s Sex receives top billing as Charles J. Stumar, famed photographer of Sahara and The Lone Wolf’s Daughter, is named permanent camera chief for Glaum productions under a long term exclusive contract with producer J Parker Read Jr Fox Theatre engagement set for next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Two Medford girls playing a store on the riverbank found a washed bundle of bonds valued at $100000. Postmaster W A Bailey identified one bond as a $1000 note from the Great Northwestern State Bank robbery in St Paul ten days earlier. The pillowcase and wet feathers hid the loot, now recovered after the girls’ game.
A fragment quotes Gail Hamilton praising patience as the greatest elixir and notes life’s hard conditions requiring virtues like love hope joy wit and benevolence to be refined like a crucible to distill patience.
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