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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1922
Page
4
The Journal will start a new serial story titled The Cross Cut in coming days. It promises a clean tale of love, action, and mystery aimed at engaging readers who enjoy a diversion from daily life through fiction.
The official program for Washington Chautauqua runs August 15 to 24 with nine days of lectures music humor and recitals in a large tent. Headliners include Ex-Vice President Tom Marshall Kr yls band Strickland Gillilan Hadley Concert Company and Judge Marcus Kavanaugh with camping and modern grounds facilities for a comfortable local vacation.
A humorous poem by Walt Mason about borrowing woes causing social shunning. The speaker recalls borrowing various items from neighbors, facing cold rejections, and deciding to stop borrowing by funding his own needs. It ends with a note on choosing self-reliance over debt.
A word problem asks how to divide 8 cents after Johnny buys five melons for something and James buys three for 3 cents Henry eats one third of the melons and pays 8 cents. the task is to split Johnny and James’s shares. Also noted is a Washington Concert Band photo delay and a potato digging quip about gravy.
Dr. W. W. Bowers praises Los Angeles as a wonderful city and urges readers to ask locals for firsthand proof. The remark reflects a positive view of the city through the speaker's emphasis on native voices.
A local event at Townsley Park offers an intellectual feast designed to enrich attendees and leave them satisfied until next year’s chautauqua sessions. The program invites residents to hear compelling speakers and engage with ideas in a communal outdoor setting.
The United States reports a year ending July 1 1922 with debt reduced by 1.014 billion and a surplus of 314 million dollars. Total debt at July 1 stood at 22.963 billion, down from wartime highs of 26.596 billion. Budget deficits vanished as departments cut costs, yielding substantial interest savings and a three point six billion overall debt reduction. The piece urges continued responsible government finance and staying on a paying basis.
Bert Lytell portrays grandfather father and son in The Idle Rich a California saga adapted from Kennett Harris and June Mathis. Lytell discusses costume period accuracy and the film’s aim to capture changing times and Californian character. The piece also notes a hotel gag about a bellboy and a dog.
Elmer Mason tells of three men on an island a blind man an armless man and a naked man who grow desperate for food when a bird flies toward them the armless man grabs a gun shoots the bird and the naked man pockets the gun. The answer lies at the bottom of this column.
A city youth is described as "bathing" while his parents visit. He shares a letter detailing household tasks such as mailing to Bird Island Minnesota and feeding chickens only cabbage leaves. The letter ends with watchful neighbors and odd moral maxims.
A weary traveler, unable to start his Ford as the crank turned, asks Otto Dankwardt at his meat market for help. Otto replies with humor about having “a few darned good stories,” as the man’s temper wavers. The scene ends with a wry note.
Our Coppock correspondent shares tales from a cold move in Washington where 20 degrees below zero froze mud and a truck ride offered little sleep. Tracy Phillips notes an Italian bigamist with five wives saying he made a big amistake. The conundrum answer is a lie. A Hindu girl is seen as old at 20 and marriage at 18 is common. Eleven percent of foreign born whites over age ten cannot speak English. Mexican peons mine sand from discarded auto casings. Large truck tires are in demand. Imperial Valley lettuce netted growers five million dollars in 1922.
Reverend Arthur Oates led a large July 4 celebration in southeastern Iowa as American Legion Post commander. A bride-to-be booked a 10 o’clock wedding, but another minister had already found the couple. Other notes mention allotments for Indians Bad Baby and Shuts-Her-Eye, plus humorous lines and a radio lecture quip.
Courtney Ryley Cooper a Kansas City born writer who clowned in a circus and served in the Marines writes The Cross-Cut a mining romance serial soon to appear in this paper He has written for the Kansas City Star New York World Denver Post and Chicago Tribune and authored strings of stories under various pen names.
An advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Medicine as a two part remedy with an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. It claims efficacy supported by over forty years of sales by F. J. Cheney Co. Toledo Ohio.
A traveling man spoke at a gathering in front of the Congress Hotel, drawing attention from bystanders and indicating growing public interest in the issue being discussed.
A humorous column mixes a flower delivering scene aimed at Miss Fannie Honeysome with a registration day anecdote. A dusky citizen jokes about not serving in the cavalry, preferring no boss when retreating, reflecting light political humor in a Southern city.
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