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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1930
Page
4
The article notes the tariff bill passed and signed with expected indirect benefits like crop diversification, potentially shifting up to 10 million acres. It also criticizes Iowa Democrats for opposing prohibition and warns against reopening liquor debates, arguing the social and moral costs of alcohol.
The article recalls a Detroit radio announcer shot eleven times for opposing bootlegging and gambling. It argues such violence targets those challenging crime, noting similar historical acts in Iowa forty years earlier where gang houses and dens were dynamited to protect illicit ventures.
Mildred Putnam recalls an awkward bakery incident from months ago when she asked the price of 15 cent rolls and felt humiliated as the clerk laughed. The Journal offers 50 cents to readers with similar memories.
The article recalls a past era in small towns like Washington Iowa when open houses of ill fame existed. It notes disease and death as consequences and cites three years as the average life span for those who pursued that life. It describes public outrage, aided by the saloon, against such social policies and ends with a quoted poem about burning a candle at both ends.
A July 1930 Evening Journal editorial features Dr S P Telford defending a beloved fence from the mayor. The mock poem urges preservation of the old fence, praising its fifty years of service and the memories it shelters for the town and children.
Dan Poling extols C M Rodefer, president of a major glass company in Bellaire, praising his vigor as a business and church leader and his early Prohibition stance. He notes Rodefer’s sign statewide in 1912 and urges churches to keep temperance lessons intact amid shifting duties.
A cryptic dialogue quotes a Boston Transcript line about Hotstuff daily passing by eating an apple. The speaker suspects he visits the doctor’s wife, the old girl, suggesting a private motive behind the routine visit.
A compact note on proper English usage first focusing on the singular form of quantity and correct pronunciation. It introduces the word ESSAY as a verb meaning to attempt and cites examples about attempting to turn thoughts in a new channel.
A jumble of short items and quips from a 19th or early 20th century letter page. Readers joke about poetry, fraternities, endurance contests, and odd requests at a drug store. Several brief vignettes mention a Beta Theta Pi pin, quack doctors versus patients, and a cottage industry of humorous antiquated observations.
Miss Eunice Murdock daughter of Mrs. E. W. Murdock formerly of Columbus Junction married B. H. Wagner of Kalama zoo Michigan on Saturday. They plan to reside in San Antonio Texas. Nearby, the United Presbyterian Sunday school first class met with Mrs J H Oak. Local crops suffer from heat with rain needed for cantaloupe, sweet potatoes. Two carloads of limestone to Louisa county farmers August 6 at Farm Bureau picnic at Columbus Chautauqua park.
Abe Martin notes a new city enforcement director often gets photo coverage, padlocks a few night clubs, resigns, and blames politics while tabloid front pages claim Chicago residents face a grim average life expectancy of twenty eight years.
J A Mulhern is painting fourteen farm buildings on the Lee Colton farm located northwest of town. Mrs J L Denham is recovering from an operation at Bellevue Hospital in Muscatine.
Riverside RT 1 reports a Cedar Rapids picnic with neighbors dining and dancing at Solon where Swisher orchestra provided music. Threshing continues at full blast with Arthur Lorack harvesting nine hundred fifty bushels of dry wheat yielding about forty bushels per acre and local farmers selling corn at seventy five cents a bushel.
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