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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1922
Page
4
A compact meditation on virtues and self-improvement urging apology, openness to advice, charity, consideration, perseverance, and maintaining high standards. The piece underscores recognizing a silver lining and shouldering blame when deserved, with the motto that virtue always pays.
A traveler narrates a July night in Minnesota heading toward the Mississippi headwaters. The journey paused in Wadena after a flat tire, noting near daylight at nine and the unusual long days. They recall rain in Minneapolis and clearer skies after leaving the twin cities.
In a small homespun clash Bud and his wife argued about inflation and budgets. She lamented forty years of marriage, while he insisted it felt longer, reflecting the era’s tight finances.
A satirical verse targets busy town knockers who block progress with taxes rising twelve percent. Boosters are praised for paying, while knockers bark with verbal axes and hammers outside the Stag Hotel, groaning over taxes they dodge.
The narrator travels from Washington through rough roads to Minneapolis then along fine paved highways across Minnesota. They note extreme heat, parched fields, many lakes, bathing at Antlers Park, and a change in the Mississippi river course near Owatonna. Local residents react to Washington’s slogan and city pride.
Alvin C. Hasty describes an 1922 journey from Huron to Pierre and Ottawa North Dakota through Miller Highmore Stanley Haakon counties. He notes range grass, cattle and horse herds, buffalo grass, river crossings, a nail puncturing a tire, prairie dog towns, rattlesnakes, and wild sunflowers along the roadside. The seven member caravan camps near Ottawa with basic amenities and cold nights.
Popular Science Monthly describes the toad’s self reliant feeding method. It catches its meals by watching for motion to ensure prey is alive, then stores enough to fill its stomach four times in a day and night. It could survive longer without food if needed.
L H Haynes of three miles west of Eldon chased and killed a large rattlesnake after it hissed warning. He used a club to finish the fight and claimed a 50 cent county bounty from Wapello auditor, turning in the rattles for a county warrant.
Iowa farmers cut livestock on farms in 1921 as county assessors report to State Auditor Glenn Haynes. Overall value of cattle and animals fell by $50 000 090 with total head down 636 800 though mules hogs and goats rose. Cattle declined 197 592 and their value fell from 120 041 237 to 93 147 122. Money and credits dropped from 716 618 501 to 645 695 400.
Des Moines reports farmers urged to inspect oat harvest for smut and estimate loss in value. Agricultural experts note yields cut by up to 25 percent and say current remedies are unavailable, but knowing losses will aid next spring seed disinfection.
A grocer describes a prolonged stomach illness that left him 115 pounds before using Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. After four months he rose to 151 pounds, claims he can eat anything, and praises the product for removing intestinal inflammation. The ad notes money-back refunds at Lemmon's Pharmacy and other druggists.
The column recalls a squirrel killed by a car and buried in a yard, notes the hurried ceremony due to a lingering odor, mocks interpretation of the event, and includes a memory test question about a Mohammedan church leader. It mentions Huron South Dakota, July 15, and a boy with a large gun.
Reader notes how to navigate a newspaper from front to back and pages to ads and columns. He jokes about the By the Way column and the prevaricators' club while praising the atlas and recounting a humorous restaurant anecdote about a deaf man reacting to sound.
Wright Corbin coins I didn't see him nowhen and a East Main youth claims a boy had independence cut out. Billy Lieberthal visits Washington for the first time, marvels at the city, and befriends locals. A strange lady asks his age. he answers Four and a half.
A fragment invokes a prophetic line about time and endurance, urging reflection as a passerby encounters a historic inscription. The terse phrasing hints at a medieval or cultural artifact woven into a newspaper feature.
The Davenport Democrat notes July 13 as attorney John C Higgin’s 37th birthday. A Democrat representative visits Higgin’s office to find it crowded with clients, portraying the 13th as busy for the well known barrister.
The note suggests a favorable opportunity to recruit George for the club. It recalls George Loosch a former employee of Jones and McElhin. The brief hints at an internal discussion about bringing him on board.
A newspaper notice discusses a claimed fifty pound fish caught by George at Webster's Dam below Oakland Mills. The piece notes the fish head measured eleven inches across and possessed a dull eye, though the report questions the claim's veracity.
The congregation voted to raise the minister’s salary from 1000 to 1500 dollars a year, but the pastor declines. When asked why he won’t accept, he explains he cannot find time to collect more, noting it takes him all year to gather the current salary.
The verse laments life as an empty dream and mocks chores as a nightmare. It contrasts a clock-loving child who wishes to swap duties for perpetual stillness with washing hands and face. The piece uses playful imagery of cucumbers onions and ice cream to frame daily life.
The Plum Street Church ladies advertise mixed garments for sale at 44 Nortth Plum Street. Call to inspect the discarded clothing assortment.
Oysters in England suffer a form of influenza harming fisheries though surviving specimens still retain edible qualities.
Brooklyn undertaker John H. Woods advertises in a theatrical program that in his long career he has yet to have his first dissatisfied patron, as reported by the New York World.
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