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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1921
Page
4
A poet sits dreaming of vaiads dryads and fays as fanciful lines echo in a Chicago Herald piece. The shipping board chair A D Laskar challenges orders to reveal the full shipping crisis rate and accuses leadership of incompetence amid a looming federal inquiry into costs and acts.
The poem muses on life’s fragility and the urge to live today while planning for tomorrow. It contrasts cheerful optimism with the certainty of death and urges prudent action and debt cancellation before the day ends.
The piece condemns the Shipping Board’s spending and Comptroller Tweedale. It accuses mismanagement and outstanding claims of about $200,000,000 requiring taxation. It argues a war era system persisted past its point and warns of neglect threatening civilizational foundations.
The speaker urges paying shipping losses by the people and hopes the new shipping board will eliminate waste and restore merchant marine activity for permanent establishment on the high seas. The tone aims to push governmental action and accountability.
William Farnum delivers a stirring performance as a successful writer whose wife pursues an operatic career, leaving home and child. The photoplay raises the modern dilemma of a wife’s career vs family welfare and offers a decisive conclusion in a dramatic screen drama.
Iowa wool growers hold about 1,000,000 pounds of the 1921 clip in Chicago warehouses awaiting higher prices, per a letter to county agent M. H. Hoffman from W. G. Warner secretary of the Iowa Fleece Wool Growers' Association. Only one third of the clip has been shipped to warehouses so far this year, with about half of the 1920 clip already sold.
William Fox studio in New York reports that Mr. Farnum shows unusually deep personal interest in this picture. He spends days in his dressing room rehearsing scenes with director J Gordon Edwards and reaches consensus with Mrs Edwards on the most effective presentation. The producers say the film offers food for thought for married and single alike across men and women.
The text champions women as voters and citizens after suffrage. It urges women to protect health with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, touted as a long trusted remedy for ailments specific to women.
Abraham L. Styers of 4326 Patrick Ave Omaha Nebraska says Tanlac saved his life two years ago after years of illness from rheumatism lumbago and kidney troubles He gained 22 pounds and improved steadily while credits the tonic with restoring appetite sleep and strength He notes Sherman Bros Pioneer Drug Store Washington as local sellers in the ad notice.
Public notice announces a special election for the Consol idated Independent School District of Noble spanning Washington and Henry counties. The vote will be held August 6, 1921, at Fischer School House Noble Iowa from 1 pm to 6 pm, with voters deciding on unspecified measures.
Notice by the Noble Washington and Henry counties Consolidated Independent School District calls for a local election on a fifty thousand dollar bond issue to build and equip a new schoolhouse and acquire a site. Voters are directed to appear at the designated time and place as authorized by the board of directors per Iowa code provisions. Secretary A F Mitchell dated July 6 1921.
A short note asserts electricity travels about 62 000 miles farther in a second than a given reference nht. The comparison highlights a speed advantage of electrical transmission over the other measure.
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