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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1926

Page

6

Society Notes From Ainsworth Meetings And Marriages

The Sarvaia club hosted Mrs. W. B. McCrory last Friday marking the season’s end until September. Various societies including the Young Women’s Missionary, Pyshian circle, Rebetalh lodge, and Kolah club announced meetings, programs, and guest participants. Wedding plans were noted for Miss Signs Freeman of Ottumwa and Joseph Snyder of Washington, plus other local engagements and events. The De Molay boys planned a party at the Armory, and bridge and social events were scheduled for several clubs with committees named.

Sarvaia Club Ainsworth W. B. McCrory W. J. Reaney W. F. Delaney Ciircle H. F. Steck East Main Street Pyshian Circle T. Berto Rebetalh Lodge Kolah Club John Speidel Joseph Snyder Washington Miss Signs Freeman Ottumwa Laither Anchorch Richland Bernadine Neville Cecily Soith

Social Calendar A Busy Evening Of Club Talks And Dinners

Mr and Mrs Prank Sage honor Charles Keck of Hollywood at dinner. B O W club meets at 7 30 at 626 East Third Street. Alma Hearne Holland Missionary Society gathers at 6 15 with potluck sandwiches. Daughters of Union Veterans convene at 7 30 in G A R hall with initiation and report of department convention. Damascus Shrine No 10 W O S of J meets at eight with program and sect time. Pythian Sisters meet at seven with Just Us club guest day and roll call on flowers.

Mrs. Prank Sage Charles Keck Hollywood California M. P. Vacha East Third Alma Hearne Holland Missionary Society Daughters of Union Veterans of G. A. R. Hall Department Damascus Shrine W. OS. of J Pythian Sisters Arthur Yord Will Sickles Just Us Mrs. Yard

Never Do Our Best Quote by Phillips Brooks

The remark challenges self praise and insists true life is judged by ongoing effort not past ego. It argues that claiming one’s best ever achieved understates the ongoing duty to strive and grow as a moral standard.

Phillips Brooks

Winfarthing Oak of Norfolk Said to Precede Norman Conquest

A centuries old tree in Winfarthing, Norfolk, England is claimed to have stood for about 700 years at the time of William the Conqueror’s 1066 conquest, linking it to early English history.

Norfolk Eng Winfarthing England

Seward's Folly Revisited Alaska Salmon Value

The piece argues Alaska proved valuable beyond gold, highlighting 817 million in minerals and 620 million in fisheries. It emphasizes salmon as a key product, noting two thirds of world production, its migratory life cycle, and the need to protect rivers to sustain future food supply. The commentary cites Henry O Mall y as United States commissioner of fisheries.

Seward Alaska Russia Tte Henry O'Mally United Sites Commissioner of Fisheries Atlantic United States Bureau of Fisheries Alaskan

Washington's Own Troop Knights of Cavalry History

Washington's Own Troop, the Philadelphia City troop, described as the oldest distinctively cavalry unit in America, served under Washington with headquarters escort at Trenton and Bucks County as well as Brandywine, per Co. F. Adams.

Philadelphia City America Co. F. Adams Washington Trenton Siheatun Brandywine

Have Little Sense Insects Starve On Tiny Mul Berry Leaf

Newly married caterpillars display limited foraging sense and may starve on a bare mulberry fragment rather than venture to nearby fresh foliage. Meanwhile small birds have long mobbed the cuckoo believing it to be a hawk.

Recipes From Just Us Clothy Members Included Dishes

Diverse home baking items listed by members include Pineapple Pie Bake with meringue, Baked Pineapple with delicate cream topping, Butter Scotch Cookies, and Rice Banana Fruit mix. Ingredients feature pineapple rice blends, strawberries, raspberries, marshmallows, cream, and assorted flavorings.

Tomato and Onion Soup and Milk Pineapple Custard

Scald and peel tomato cook and sieve with onions celery red pepper parsley. Add sugar salt butter flour mix with pulp and seal hot then add soda on opening. Milk soup combines milk sugar salt cornstarch heated till thick then yolks and pineapple vanilla added to cool baked crust.

al Fields

Community cooks share home bake notes and ingredients

A fragment lists recipe steps and ingredients from several homemakers including Mrs. Oscar Brock and Mrs. J. T. Chadwick. It mentions bread soaked in milk with eggs and salt, baking powder, flour. pie plant, dates, sugar, walnuts. Dittmar’s sugar and lard batter with sour cream, soda, nutmeg. roll thin.

Oscar Brock J. T. Chadwick

Navy Bean Bake With Bacon and Catsup

A recipe note lists Ella Hout cooking navy beans with bacon. Beans cooked until well done, then mixed with catsup and sugar, topped with bacon, and baked until thick.

Ella Hout

Mrs Ditmar Lima Beans and Molly Molasses Bake

Recipe note lists Mrs Henry Ditmar with l cup lima beans soaked overnight. In morning add 1 2 teaspoon soda. Cook 10 minutes drain, then 20 minutes more. Drain, bake in pan with molasses and sour cream, salt, two hours. Mentions Mrs Will Sickles and yeast soaked preparation.

Henry Ditmar Mrs. Will Sickles

Bread and Cake Recipe Fragments From Mrs Will

Instructions describe dough with butter sugar salt and milk, form rolls, bake light. Includes a separate cake recipe using cocoa sugar vanilla flour baking powder and eggs to yield eighteen to twenty cakes.

Home Baking Recipe for Nut Meat Cookies

Mrs. R. C. Wilcox shares a dough mixing method using 1 pound dates and 2 cups water, cooled and seeded. Add 1 cup lard 3 cups sugar 1 teaspoon soda in 1 cup water 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1 cup chopped nut meat. Mix and bake in a moderate oven.

R. C. Wilcox

Mrs C B Yard Pickles and Cheese Pineapple Salad

Mrs C B Yard presents a pickle recipe using large green cucumbers small onions and brine with vinegar sugar ginger white mustard seed cinnamon turmeric then boils and seals. Mrs John Dodd provides a gelatine based pineapple cheese salad mixing crushed pineapple grated cheese stuffed olives and cream served on shredded lettuce and yields about 25 portions.

C. B John Dodd

Climbing the Yosemite Valley to Glacier Point

The author recalls Pauls note on being shod for ascent as Nancy and I hike from the valley in Yosemite toward Glacier Point. The climb offers beauty but demands proper gear to avoid pain and delay.

Hoever Paul Ephesians Nancy Yosemite Glacier Point

The Steep Path to Greatness and the Cost of Fame

An essay reflects on the difficulty of reaching top achievement. It compares ascent to a mountain trail and notes a young woman injured on a steep descent. It praises Waderewski as exemplifying artistic mastery earned through sacrifice and hard training, not silver slippers.

Waderewski Western Newspaper Union

Rainfall Football Report Update

In the following play a punt returned by Bell moved to midfield before being tackled. The sequence ends with a fatal drowning incident tied to the play, prompting news coverage.

Bell

Time's Revenge on Women Who Chase Youth

A provocative piece argues women age as they chase youth and beauty standards, suggesting society's pressures accelerate aging. It critiques cosmetic trends and media ideals shaping self perception. The column reflects cultural norms and personal anxieties about aging and appearance.

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Young Woman's Missionary Society of the Baptisl Church Clara Faulkner Jennie Nelson Besse Jones Irene Yard Dorothy Chance Alice Brady Carol Forgey Leafy Yard Des Moines Rural Woman's Club J. d. Vincenut Loyal Sisters M. B. Hirch Ladies Nidb Society of the Christian Chopels BK. OB. Greenfield Beery Lady Lexington Ladies Vid Ji. B. Minber Don Huber Everett Young Warren Mathers Wayne Norman Walter Patterson de Molay Armory Priday Helen Wilson Glenn Laffer Pt. Dodge Svpurday Wlr.c Social Alendar Tersday Los Angeles Joan Alden Marcvelline Arnold Mabelle Perry Dan Rohrer Aix Mae Hopengardner A. W. Yard W. A. Carpenter Der Howard Anderson Henry Dittmar Madras Men's Sox Lisle Klein Klothing KO C. M. &F. Clothing Co Will Thomas Arkle Clark University of Illinois the &Iz Dad
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