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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1924
Page
4
The Journal highlights the Iowa Budget law requiring full publicity of proposed tax levies and public meetings for taxpayers to scrutinize and protest expenditures before contracts and levies are finalized. The aim is to reduce costs and taxes by open scrutiny of government spending and proposed school levies.
A humorous verse heavy with affection for a mother’s kitchen contrasts with a distressed bride. The groom idolizes his mother’s meals and tales of praise wear on the young wife, whose efforts with Hubbard squashes and other dishes go unrewarded as the husband dwells on maternal culinary feats.
The article argues that budgets should be open to public scrutiny to ensure prudent expenditure. It emphasizes the need for meetings and questions from taxpayers to improve efficiency and democratic control under a budget law. It promotes a businesslike, careful approach to tax money for broad public benefit.
Berlin sees a rise in alcohol free eateries with owners claiming most patrons are total abstainers not driven by the prohibition movement abroad. Authorities disagree whether price or population demand fuels the trend.
A woman reveals she is not as young as she once was in order to attend her silver wedding anniversary. The admission underscores the pride and challenge of milestone vows celebrated with family and friends.
Former Arkansas governor Charles H. Brough will address the Chautauqua on August 19 afternoon on "American Leadership of the World." A scholar and writer, he earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins and taught economics and sociology in Mississippi and Arkansas before serving two terms as governor.
Martin Luthers handwriting fetched the highest price at a Berlin autograph auction. A letter to Elector John of Saxony sold for 9100 marks, Goethe to Merck in 1774 drew 5000 marks, Schillers Der Alpenjager brought 3000 marks, Schopenhauer autographs 500 marks, and Heines poems sold in six pages for 670 marks. Some Schiller and Wieland letters drew no bids.
Radio Digest lists daily programs across stations in Chicago New York Dallas Detroit and more. Entries note times and formats including orchestra bands talks lectures children and recitals with numerous regional stations and shows.
A quirky page compiles humorous quips and wordplay from a 19th century style column. It includes a Pennsylvanian use of juke meaning dodge, a horse anecdote about George McDaniel, a thought on happiness by Chauncey Depew, and a salesman's overalls joke.
He gives his wife 50 cents a week and keeps 8 dollars and 50 cents for himself in a lighthearted domestic quip about shared finances and planning for better city life.
The principal began the school exercises with the singing of "Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand." He halted the performance due to lackluster effort and urged a fresh, more enthusiastic rendition calling for effort and spirit.
The man under treatment dismisses the endurance tests, while several dollar-a-year workers appear to face a decade of delay in wage gains. The tone suggests persistent strain from ongoing dental work and financial pressures among the laborers.
A traffic patrolman arrests a motorist who denies racing claiming he only passed two others. The exchange centers on whether the act constitutes racing as the motorial protests the charge.
The column mocks the idea of judging women by appearance. A barber is blamed for hesitating to say whether bobbed hair suits a woman. Mr. and Mrs. Cox win praise for their garden yield and the fur lined loving cup.
In a playful verse exchange a Heron adviser tells Flappers to calm down while the Drake and Sheldrake debate growth and manners ending with Plappers maturing into Ducks. A jumble of quotes comments on haste and home life as well as a foreign visit by Hanan Tung and Rabindranath Tagore amid scattered names.
C W Levern, Sequoia National Park pack train concessionaire, trailed a six foot mountain lioness all night by his car lights. When near, the lioness stepped into the glare and Levern fired through the windshield, killing the beast amid startled motorists. The animal had frequently crossed the road in recent days.
A boy named Bobby asks why his father goes to town each day and his mother explains it is to earn money for a good dinner. The next day Bobby scrutinizes the meal and questions his father’s effort.
In recounting a half mile race at a fairground annual, names like Williams Sandy Black Dupuis and a Keota rider appear. A spill near the east end of the grandstand involved Dupuis’s pedal catching a Crawfordsville rider’s wheel, sending riders flying and leaving Williams to finish alone in 1 5. A separate incident at Winfield saw Chick Ross skinned after an opponent’s intentional nudge.
Dr F Scott McBride of the Anti Saloon League opens a three day World League Against Alcoholism conference in Winona Lake Indiana urging strict enforcement of prohibition to push world wide liquor bans. He notes the league’s Indianapolis 1880s stance supporting world prohibition and calls for electing officials who uphold the dry law. Rev Gifford Gordon will speak on Thirty Five Thousand Miles of Prohibition as the opening topic with Wayne B Wheeler among other speakers.
The meeting features Bishop Thomas Nicholson and Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley leading discussions. William K. Johnson, Miss Cora Frances Stoddard, Judge Richard Hopkins, and Rev. Sam W. Small are among the speakers. Sunday includes temperance services led by Bishop F Anderson with other notable speakers and officials from WCTU and related bodies.
Railroad timetable fragments list arrivals and departures for Golden State No. 4 and No. 11 Limited, No. 8 Golden State, No. 12 Xpress, and Wilmington branch locals. Includes local freight nos. 429 449 835 836 with daily or weekday patterns and times for H W Russell.
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