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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1921
Page
6
A parent recounts a child learning to read through spoken word and letters with interest in everyday objects. By age seven she read Rollo Book Gulliver's Travels and Pilgrim's Progress, without formal teaching, suggesting valued methods beyond modern theories. The piece praises kindergarten ideals and notes resources from the National Kindergarten Association.
A large gathering of Methodist foreign mission groups plans a convention for October six to nine in Des Moines. The Des Moines Branch includes Iowa Missouri Arkansas and Oklahoma with 710 women societies and youths. Committees will organize hospitality transportation church arrangements decorations and meals with foreign missionaries Kate Ogborn and Mary Eva Gregg Wilson among speakers. The Iowa conference aims to raise 32000 for foreign missions and honor groups doubling memberships in the Reliquary records.
A fragmented verse excerpt notes a hidden flute found via a rain washed path with a lark on a tree and Minna Irving cited from The Arena. The text then lists Miss Beale of Boston in shipping, Amy Abbott sworn as Albany deputy sheriff, and that Wyoming and Texas counties include women electors.
The American Legion auxiliary invites all to a program at eight o clock in Preston Sunday School rooms in honor of Flag Day. Daughters of the American Revolution host a Flag Day picnic at the log cabin in Iret Park with Nora Bryson and Col. Palmer as guests. Various social and club gatherings are listed for the week including church events, a Shalom group election, Pythian Sisters meet, and a building inspector appointment in St. Louis for Bertha F. Drabelle.
A collection of foreign recipes adapted by Washington women now Americanized and favored by their families. Cremeau Caramel Ry via Mrs Helen Dillange Campbell uses milk sugar eggs cornstarch vanilla and salt with a browned sugar caramel and meringue topping for a light dessert.
Instructions for a three color ice cream with whipped cream cocoa yolk macaroons and flavored strawberry parts. Freeze without churning and use wax paper to seal then dip can in hot water to release in three distinct colors.
A fragment noting the fourth article in a series from the National Kindergarten Association based in New York City. The piece mentions ongoing contributions appearing in these columns as part of a home training guidance sequence.
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