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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1927
Page
4
The article argues good roads extend automobile life by about one year and sixteen days, reducing ownership costs as more cars enter service. It cites 1926 figures of 3,930,820 new cars and a total active fleet near 22 million, and notes gasoline production and road improvements spurred broader industrial growth.
The article discusses daily word study with a focus on conspicuous meaning clearly visible prominent and distinct. It notes common misuses mispronunciations and misspellings and encourages learning one word each day for vocabulary growth.
A retrospective note states 100 years marked by overall improvement and confidence that trends will remain beneficial. The message emphasizes continued progress and a belief in lasting positive outcomes.
A lively musing on candy's rise linked to Prohibition and World War, noting candy shops replace saloons and exploring how sweets affect the mind. The piece ends with a call for the inventor of the gum drop to be honored in history.
The Rockefeller Foundation spent nearly ten million dollars in 1926 to improve world health, aid fourteen medical schools in ten countries, support a Teaching Hospital in Peking, and assist public health efforts from Brazil to France. It highlights cooperation with Brazil’s government against yellow fever and hookworm, and backing for tuberculosis work in France and health programs across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
The piece notes the infant monarch Michael T of Roumania, officially king of 20 million, seems like any child in pictures yet is constrained by royal duties. It contrasts kiddie cars and crowns and imagines he might wish for normal childhood activities and anonymity.
A humorous dialogue notes that wasting time in school hurts business. It claims many Chinese war leaders were educated in American colleges. A joke about Africa follows, then a joke about Dr. P. L. Etter and Dr. H. F. Masson receiving private drum lessons in a Washington county corn field.
A collage of cartoon captions playful lines about marriage, avants and bank notes. Witty exchanges feature a judge and a wife quarreling over divorce, a janitor’s daughter sweeping a suitor off his feet, and current leaders criticized for bait or flies.
A priest bets a boy twenty five cents to name history’s greatest man. An Italian boy names Christopher Columbus, an American boy George Washington, a Jewish boy proclaims St. Patrick, and then says Moses in his heart, but business is business.
A fragment from Octavus Roy Cohen’s Alabama tale notes four residents vouching for a shared claim. The brief item hints at local chatter and a rising suspicion about a common opportunity or misstep in Bumminham.
A Birmingham Penny Bank story involves Elias Hubbs a transient who deposited 100 dollars rising to 200. A Nashville offer sent him on, his check for 200 returned for insufficient funds while a Birmingham explanation framed the bank’s status with a humorous misprint.
A trivia feature surveys naval power history asking which nation led at sea, which war boosted Japan, France and Italy’s Mediterranean defense craft, Germany's U Boat champion, Harding’s disarmament legacy, Coolidge era invites, the Navy Secretary, the Washington ratio, U S island dependencies, and the great US dirigible. Answers promised on last page.
A jibe about safekeeping suggests placing items in a filing cabinet to hide them from others. The remark implies the cabinet is overlooked and ineffective for secure storage.
A Boston Transcript quip notes Jimmy, who dislikes soap and water, washing only the forefinger as his mother questions the sight. He explains the neighbor asked him to feel the baby sister’s new tooth, while a separate line jokes that work should not impede golf practice.
Obscured local notes recount Hazel Conrad and companions visiting Hazie Conrad and Bessie Conrad. Anna Mae Conrad is on the sick list but improving at home for a week’s vacation.
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