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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1927
Page
4
The couple, heir to wealth and a North Woods romance, have sparked front page coverage as Bud Stillman and Lena Wilson marry amid gossip. Critics doubt the match, fearing a stain on the Stillman name though hopes rise they settle peacefully and keep their life private henceforth.
Iowa counties vote on a good roads program and mostly defeat the statewide cross county No 2 proposal. Voters support local road improvements but lack cohesion for a full state network. Cass county rejects No 2 blocking immediate cross county expansion, while enthusiasm grows for broader co ordinated highways within Iowa and neighboring states.
In an interview the company president says that widows form the main pool of passengers. Hundreds or thousands bury husbands, claim life insurance, and book passages to Europe and beyond including Asia and Africa. Some widows travel alone, others form merry groups.
The extract discusses common language mistakes and pronunciation guidance. It contrasts phrases like I would jump at the opportunity with tem OPPORTUNITY. It highlights mispronunciation of abscond and verbatim and offers synonyms for increase and related terms. It promotes daily vocabulary with UNKEMPT as today's focus noting untidy neglected and dirty hair.
The passage urges men to live so that their wives are content with them alive rather than dead and buried. It asserts a husband should be valued by family presence more than life insurance proceeds, implying a critique of the widow as a cruising company standby and calling men to wiser conduct with their families.
Governor Frank C. Lowden argues for common sense farm policy and compromise in a Wisconsin Legislature address. He endorses the equalization concept, calls agriculture a national issue tied to industry and commerce, and urges a national approach over sectional remedies to save civilization.
A collage of gossip and jokes from a society page includes Mrs. Stillman at her son's wedding where crockery flies toward photographers, humorous exchanges about spouses who quarrel, and quips about stenographers professors and hotel robber jokes. It also features Rebecca West's views on the Middle West and social life in New York versus Iowa.
A quirky line contrasts a cashier who resigned and fled to China with a boast about pacifism. The pair reflects a satirical or humorous item likely from a newspaper page, using sharp, brandished phrases.
The talk turns to European war debts being settled at 20 to 40 cents on the dollar. A quip about Noah and sanctuary mocks financial reckoning while a newspaper photographer is labeled as an optimist or a hick town figure by an Oddfellow.
John Gilbert stars in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adventure drama Twelve Miles Out at the Fox theatre. The film thrills with sensational action and daring battles, intertwines a delicate love story, and presents Gilbert as a swashbuckling hero in a modern tale of national issues.
In Pilotsburg Iowa on July 26 Mrs Muriel Anderson reports threshing by the Stump brothers for Dave Stump and local oats harvest continuing. The Pilotsburg Aid Society will meet with Miss Esther Ashby on Aug 4. Visitors attended the Keota rodeo and local family updates include the death of Charlie Brown and return visits by Eleanor Ashby Grabel and others.
Mrs Ora Wilton of Garden City Kansas visits relatives in the area. Mr and Mrs Charles Allen and three children of Des Moines stay at Dr Frank Hubbards. Roy Masonholder and daughter Millicent and Edna Shellabarger enjoy a motor trip through the eastern states. Mary Allen and Floyd Butt visit Mrs B F Rauch at Wapello. Helen Van Meter visits Robert Van Meter in Cedar Rapids. May Jones of Grandview visits Mr and Mrs T E Johnston. Louie Reaney returns from Brooklyn. S M Overholt and daughter Marie return from Colorado Springs. The Rev and Mrs Fred Smith of Janesville visit the latter's parents Ferdinand.
Spaethe at Columbus City. Mrs. S. A. Rush of Ames visits her sisters Mrs. Franc Sigafoose and Mrs. Sadie Hanft. Dr. J. W. Hubbard will begin building a house on his Main Street lot soon. A kitchen utensils lesson was held at Mrs. J. S. Helmick’s home for township leaders.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Kloppflier and family shopped in Washington on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Chas Vondrasek and children with other families visited the Soukup and Liska households over the weekend. Emma Liska spent last week with her grandparents. Community members attended a rodeo in Keota Sunday. The Soukups visited Washington on Tuesday.
Mrs Soukup undergoes dental work while Irene Vondrasek visits Dorothy Soukup. Mrs Milton Sojka and Mae call on the Vondrasek home. Alma Lukavsky spends a week with Frank and a Mrs Lukavsky in Iowa City. Yaro Sojka Mrs Archie Sof erak and Margaret Kron assist Carl Kos in Clover hullers. Viola Petsel and Dorothy and Marie Vondaup visit Mammie and Emily Havel. Chaffeurs nicknamed assassin provoke Paris pedestrians. Air travel touted as cheaper than taxi with five dollar air route versus six ten taxi fare in New York report.
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