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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1928
Page
4
A Few Days at Battle Creek
A Journal Traveller visits Battle Creek Michigan on July 21 1928 noting the city’s famed Sanitarium and Kellogg and Post breakfast food plants. The writer describes local myths about the Battle Creek System and jokes about shipping excelsior sawdust and paraffin in breakfast goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Battle Creek
Battle Creek Michigan
Kellogg and Post
Battle Creeks
Battle Creek health system and Kellogg diet critique
A wide critique of food faddism centers on the Battle Creek Sanitarium and Dr. Kellogg. It argues that modern diets over complicate eating, praising simple native foods and warning against excess health meals and exotic combinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Battle Creek
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Kellogg
Sanitarium
Dr. Kellogg
Little Household Quips and Goofy Ballads
A collage of humorous vignettes and verse from a magazine column. The prose jokes lampoon everyday life from electric irons to banking mishaps, followed by playful poems about a cowboy and a prairie dog, plus spoof notices and a satirical car race scene.
ABE MARTIN Quips on Marriage and Modern Tools
Mrs Em Moots comments on her son Lionel and a lighthearted remark about marriage. The dialogue also notes an old farmer’s view that the automobile is the greatest labor saving machine, while Tell has dismissed the farmer’s claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lionel
Tell Binkley
Tell
Allus
Tramp Says He’s Tracking the President of the Road
A tramp tells a villager he is hunting for the president of the road. The villager laughs, doubting the quest. The tramp insists he is on the president’s track and will find him.
First speeding arrest in 1902 by Thos N Shevlin of Minneapolis
The article notes Thos N Shevlin, a Minneapolis motorist, was the first arrested for speeding in 1902 for exceeding a ten mile per hour limit. He reportedly joked about the speed and the episode as the first such incident. It also references bus drivers, a cartoon, and a stage revue featuring Margaret Lillie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thos. N. Shevlin
Minneapolis
Tom
Sweeney
Bringing Up Father Parade at New Graham Tonight
Bringing up Father will be at the New Graham theatre tonight for one night only featuring Jiggs the good hearted man always doing the wrong thing at the right time Maggie the socially ambitious star making a memorable appearance in this advertisement style brief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father
New Graham Theatre
Jiggs
Maggie
City golf champions plan six town marathon
Centerville Iowa July 25 plans by E W Fannon city golf champion and Charles Coulter Webster City high school coach to play six rounds of golf on six courses in six towns in one day. The route runs Corydon Chariton Knoxville Albia Bloomfield and Centerville covering about 150 miles. It would be the first six town golf marathon of its kind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centerville
E. W. Fannon
Charles Coulter
Webster City
Corydon
Chariton
Knoxville
Albia
Bloomfield
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