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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1928
Page
4
The piece notes frequent automobile train collisions at crossings with daily fatal and injury counts. It highlights 6.5 deaths and 18 injuries every day and urges attention to the serious problem.
Daily notes teach proper word use and pronunciation with examples. The entry highlights capricious spellings and misused terms while urging readers to grow vocabulary by mastering one word each day. It references pronunciation hints for gendarme and cautions on common misspellings like abattoir and over words.
Officials warn railway automobile crashes are a major portion of highway deaths. Proposals call for crossing eliminations, rerouting, protected crossings, stricter driving laws, and harsher penalties for drunken driving. Emphasis on preparedness and enforcement to reduce fatalities.
A montage of clipped captions from London and American papers. It notes a popular sport item from Leipzig, a Brooklyn advance notice, a shrimp salad gag, a stunt flight attempt by Lord Inchcape’s daughter, and a playful classroom exchange.
Vacation literature pours into the By The Way department from readers. Some praise Minnesota lakes and Ozark streams while others describe using By The Way to mail letters to folks back home. No one suggests the conductor take a vacation.
Fragmentary verse-like note references somnambulist and a portico. Mentions great men and a vacation. Contains stray lines about leaving behind big fish and remuneration. Reads as a private reflection or fragmented literary snippet rather than a news item.
The Old Plug jokes about Horace Greeley’s famous line and plans a coastward trip with Carl Hedges as fashion advisor. He jokes about cold nights, lavender pajamas with green moons, cliff dwellers, and hoping to find gold remains from the 1849 rush while avoiding travel mischief.
A rambling vignette traces social labels for men from 1888 to the 1920s, recalling receptions, nights out, and evolving terms. The narrator jests about ancestors with Columbus and recounts barroom scenes, club outings, and shifting slang through decades.
The District Court of Washington County Iowa hears a petition by Maxwell Tripp and others against numerous defendants including James Kilgore Kirkpatrick and Elisha Hagans to quiet title in real estate described as southeast quarter of the southeast quarter and related parcels in sections twenty four and twenty five township seventy five north ranges seven and eight west. The case warns defendants and unknown claimants to appear by September 4 1928 or risk default. attorneys Livingston and Elcher announce for plaintiffs.
ABE MARTIN notes the Republican convention show and hints bosses kept a stiff lid until the work was done. He also remarks that he has seldom seen a musician give even minor attention to an orchestra director.
A new instructive color illustrated book by Dr. McCleary, Rectal Specialist, promises cure of piles without knife or hospital bills. With 28 years of success and over 14,000 cases, it offers free plain-wrapper copies by mail from Excelsior Springs Missouri.
A crime melodrama featuring George Bancroft as the anti gangster cop confronting the underworld in a tense showdown. Evelyn Brent, Fred Kohler and William Powell co star as a shootout erupts near Bancroft’s office and crooks fire from a machine gun.
Ad promotes Baalmann's Gas Tablets to relieve stomach gas pressure and related symptoms. Claims include disappearance of gnawing sensations, reduced nervousness, easier breathing, sleepiness replaced by energy, and restored circulation. Urges purchase of the genuine yellow package at Sherman Bros. for $1.
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