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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1921
Page
4
A short lyrical fragment asks a friend to render gentleness and tenderness as the speaker, travel worn and thorn pierced, seeks comfort in memory and forgiveness until dreamless rest. The voice pleads for soft thoughts and solace in lonely travel toward an unseen final rest.
The Boston Post earned the Pulitzer Medal honoring outstanding public service through journalism. Richard Grazier, the Post’s managing editor, led the award winning effort and the paper’s career of civic impact. The report recalls the Ponzi scheme as a major Boston sensation drawing in officials and police investors before its collapse.
Poet Walt Mason reflects on a long day of hard work from planting to plowing and building. He questions labor’s value yet finds solace in the evening rest and reward of a tired man’s repose.
The article traces the Ponzi fraud unraveling as investors flocked to his promises while the Post exposed the scheme. Richard Grazier saw the fraud and warned the public, contrasting reactions with earlier Doe Cook hoax coverage. The piece notes Ponzi's rapid amplification across cities and the swift collapse of the scheme.
Cherokee with under 6000 people reported sixty one high school graduates while Sioux City 71000 residents had 215. The Cherokee Times notes one graduate per 100 population versus one per 330 in Sioux City. A reader describes a four mile mud strip near the Junction to Columbus City after heavy rain.
A string of curiosities tests general knowledge from divorces in Reno to Noah Webster age and route between Oshkosh and Kalamazoo. The list asks about bed sheets, Yap, Farrar birth time, drugstore prescriptions, Hoyle on sevens, married men as husbands, Sing Sing glass panes, Standard Oil when America was discovered, and public figures like Warren G Harding.
A resident along a country road in Dutch Creek encounters a sudden surge of flood water despite no rain. Local showers appear unusually localized this season and the dry barn contrasts with the damp roadside scene.
Glen Chambers quips about fast talk and restraint. The note casts humor on marital chatter, hints at patience, and ends with a Norfolk style aside about bankers and settlement.
Fragmentary note describes transporting a calf to stockyards and selling it to a butcher. Manager Craw advertises for a pianist able to play music for East Lynne at Melodeon Hall tonight.
A wartime poem recalling a soldier’s return from France and the Croix de Guerre honoring his courage. The speaker imagines reunion at a garden bower as memories of love at a Linden tree linger. Published under Weston A Goodspeed in West Chester, Iowa.
A string of quirky queries asks about swimsuit weights, longevity, cheaper living, cap pullers, laws on hanging with a wooden leg, best phonographs, weathering questions, Columbia River salmon counts, and whether a man answering all would be employable, all framed as playful puzzles.
A 17 year old Pisgah high school boy confessed to Sheriff Milliman that he committed one of the region’s major robberies. The arrest followed suspicion after employer Fred Boyles found new silk shirts in the youth’s room and the youth named a break in at the Fred Hushaw store.
A suspect robbed a drug store and the Van Baton dry goods store on Wednesday morning taking thousands in clothes perfumes watches and shoes. He then guided officers to a storage floor hidden stash beneath the floor of a Pisgah stockyard building.
A fragment quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes on apology as egotism turned outward. It notes the habit’s rarity of curing and suggests early acknowledgment reveals a person’s faults rather than concealing them.
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