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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1925
Page
4
Congressman W F Kopp toured the city yesterday praising improved health and readiness to resume duties in the next congressional session. Local sentiment shows strong support for his reelection with no primary opposition anticipated as he continues to advocate firm governmental policies.
Dates loom for the 1925 Chautauqua sessions with a top attraction on the opening night Tuesday August 11. The play Adam and Eva will feature an all star company. Single admissions are set at $1.00, highestpriced attraction of its kind offered this season.
Walt Mason ridicules 19th century hustlers who flatter buyers to push junk. A narrator admires a green sedan while a charm merchant mirrors every boast, exposing how slick talk hides poor quality and shoddy craft. The piece lampoons deceptive salesmanship and gullible buyers.
The Downy family discusses their growing five chicks and plans a self serve feast for the birds in the orchard. They reflect on helping trees protect fruit, sharing homes with chickadees, and enjoying a simple summer life with friends and neighbors.
The article notes longer season tickets priced at $2.00 to cover extra costs for a big attraction. It highlights an exceptionally strong musical program, lectures, and study courses, plus regular bible classes, children’s classes, and clubs, urging full participation in the year’s offerings.
A seven year old girl named Mary reveals how a mother’s excessive worry and constant attention can backfire. The article notes that over-solicitude creates self centered children, exaggerated illness complaints, and household tension as siblings cater to the ill child. Mary's history includes repeated hospital visits and medical attention.
Iowa reports 5 486 children examined in 234 Sheppard Towner baby clinics across 40 counties. Dr E H Lauer says seven counties hosted clinics and some data still pending. The effort, run through county farm bureaus, found 7 223 defects in over 5 000 children with 97 4 percent correctable.
Emergency Committee reports 45 relief committees formed in distressed districts over four and a half months with clergy and doctors aiding. Some areas still need aid until potato crop ripens. fishing villages have new nets and expect little shortage for about nine months.
This quirky column invites readers to locate a more pleasant summer climate than Washington while playing on language about a shepherd now called a flock-master. It weaves humor about travel and car culture with light social observation.
Willie asks to borrow a step ladder and explains Papa fixed the rice boiler. Miss Jones questions the need. Willie says the boiler fix caused the rice to rise to the ceiling, so he needs the ladder to scrape it off.
In Dalles Texas a woman attacked a man with a baseball bat mistaking him for her husband in a bizarre domestic incident. The tongue in cheek remark claims a cultural jab about Mai Jongg and cross word puzzles reflecting resentments.
A farmer declares wealth hinges on growing something usable for automobiles. The remark implies progress comes from supplying a product for motor vehicles rather than traditional gains.
A traveling man asks for solid food at a railway eatery and buys beans for twenty five cents. Later a telegram arrives saying the price is high for beans, prompting a wry pay and the world dines with you line.
A brief, odd clipping advises sleepers on porches to dampen first and comments on a girl’s appearance, mentioning the term covered wagon as a fashionable yet dated image and referencing bobbed hair. The tone reflects a casual newspaper snippet about social norms and style.
Farmer Fumblegate recounts a town incident where a well dressed young man stopped his car at a railroad crossing to let an oncoming train pass. The scene involved a crowd and a warning from a hired man that many youths attempt the crossing.
The By-the-Way item jests about Johnnie Posthole needing a shower for the corn if rain stays away. The writer mentions a past picnic and plans to write, then shares a playful Mother Goose inspired verse about Wes Ches and his fiddle and the country humor surrounding weather and farming.
A miner answers a quip about hard work as he vanishes into the shaft. The remark contrasts with a claim that Americans carry more life insurance than the world, prompting a wry thought on knowledge and wisdom as power.
A fragmented verse piece imagines a sports themed banter with baseball and running as metaphor. It mixes chatter about arguments with humor and references to Paavo Nurmi in a playful, puzzled tone. The text resembles a lighthearted poem rather than a conventional news item.
A quirky 1925 postcard from Seattle writer Curly Maple to W. A. Harper and the Wood family blends wordplay with place names. The note mentions travel toward Canada, the Puget Sound area, and local timber terms as it hints at summer plans and humor about evergreen, oak, and cedar imagery.
A note records that quarantine began in the tenth century as a public health measure to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. The practice developed through medieval port cities adapting to shipborne outbreaks and evolving with urban growth.
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