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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1922
Page
6
A collage of light military humor and oddities. A sergeant major answers a guard breakfast riddle. Levi Cohen loses at the races to a bad half penny. A German regiment plans a solar eclipse drill with comic misstatements.
Fifteen U S deputies were ordered to Creston Iowa to quell rising tension after strikebreaker Kay Blodgett was shot by railroad guard J R Sears. Sheriff Collings moved the prisoner for safety as Chief Loudon and deputies held the peace amid fear of renewed violence.
Iowa state executive council set new value figures for eight major railroads for 1921 taxation, totaling about 1.5 million dollars more than 1920. Railroads had appealed taxes, and federal court rulings led to adjustments based on 1920 assessments.
A tribute in Shenandoah Sentinel Post honors A. M. Eldridge as a steadfast, multi-faceted community figure. He led the Community Club, supported the Shenandoah Boy Scouts, engaged in Baptist and Christian activities, and boosted local enterprise. The piece notes his departure to Washington with praise for his integrity and impact.
A Washington Star quip notes a man with worn-out shoes questions a cow's apparent wealth from leather. The brief joke highlights a playful critique of material abundance in livestock.
A Northwestern Bell crew near Waterloo delays work to let a nest hatch. A farmer claimed a turkey and later reported hatchlings totaling fifteen with nine turkeys and six pheasant chicks. The question remains whether the nest belonged to a turkey or a ringneck pheasant.
Hampy Hargrove reports digging a potato described as an Irish cobbler. The tuber measured six inches across one dimension and eleven and three quarters inches across the other, a claim noted as notably large by the clerk of court Reuben Hargrove’s father.
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