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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1923
Page
4
The article carries The Associated Press rights notice affirming publication rights for all AP dispatches and local news, with republication restrictions and exclusive entitlement noted.
A devotional note citing Psalm 103 verses 1 and 4. It celebrates God who redeems life from destruction and crowns believers with loving kindness and tender mercies. The piece is a brief daily meditation dated Friday June 1 1923.
The article urges readers to support conservation and reforestation as the United States faces an impending timber shortage. It notes forests take 30 years to mature, current consumption far outpaces growth, and calls for widespread tree planting and sustained public awareness across generations.
The poem voices wartime and everyday anxieties about the future. It contrasts past troubles dissolving like bubbles with looming, ever-changing fears. The speaker notes optimistic days followed by impending woe and urges fear to depart.
Analysts project that achieving a balance where production matches consumption will require about twenty years. This outlook underscores long term shifts in demand, supply planning, and policy measures to align growth with sustainable limits.
The column wanders through June mood and wedding banter with a bridal tour joke and a club to her. A salesman's quip about distinguishing real diamonds from fakes follows a joke about a drug store glass bow with a lone goldfish and its mysterious backstory.
The article praises Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board for supporting prohibition in practice, noting he opposes liquor on the Leviathan and supports enforcing the law on government ships. It lauds public officials for upholding laws over personal beliefs, viewing it as essential to political security.
A stream of short, quirky phrases touches on daily life water from a faucet a complacent bank manager slogan a mother of three keeping meals and bedtimes on schedule and a child named Benny recovering quickly from a fit. The tone is stray observations with small humorous moments.
A compact proverbs style piece urges balance between effort and rest and warns against marrying for money. It mixes folk wisdom with social musings and suggests friendliness as a fountain of youth while cautioning about accidents in society.
A colored man entered a shoe store and asked to view shoes. The clerk inquired about his size and the man replied with a partially heard size, prompting questions about how sales staff respond to customers of different races.
Fragmentary text references rolling cigarettes and a sergeant directing a warden with vague remarks about locking up a man. Mentions a dry build, pyramids, and batteries as unclear context for a government job. The passage is disjointed and lacks verifiable events or persons.
A stockbroker arrives home around 1 am when his partner quips about their difference. She asks for the difference and he replies that he speculates all day while she speculates him late at night.
The doctor comments that the patient looks worse and asks if they are taking any exercise. The exchange highlights concerns about the patient’s health and physical activity.
A proverb emphasizes that losing something while gaining wisdom brings net gain. Attributed to L Estrange, the saying frames adversity as a path to insight and comfort during afflictions.
Workmen grading near the Old Capitol on the University of Iowa campus uncovered an old well not previously known. The site dates to the building after its cornerstone was laid July 4 1849, and the structure now serves as the university administration building undergoing restoration and fire proofing.
A historical note explains pig tron slang for a continuous molten metal mass with a long central portion called the sow and attached shorter pieces named the pigs, forming a distinctive casting terminology.
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