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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1923
Page
4
A standard AP notice appears stating the paper's use of AP news dispatches and local news, with exclusivity rights for republication of special dispatches. It outlines rights retained by the AP and the publication's entitlement to publish authorized material.
On Monday June 18 1923 a Bible thought notes wisdom entering the heart and knowledge pleasing the soul provide discretion and understanding to protect and guide. The proverb emphasizes that wisdom and understanding keep a person safe.
The article describes Rotary International as a non commercial, non secret social organization focused on service. It lists six core objects: service as the basis of enterprise, ethical standards, applying service to life, developing acquaintance for service, dignifying all occupations, and fostering understanding and international peace through world fellowship. It emphasizes openness and lack of creed restrictions.
Henry J Allen former Kansas governor speaks in London on his European tour. He warns Europe must return to work not diplomacy, a view the Chicago Tribune describes as horse sense.
ABE MARTIN reports caterer Art Smiley from Elite Drug fore is attending a chef's convention at Bloom Center. The column notes a humorous quirk about the people who sweat most not wearing sweaters.
James Jigsmith departs angrily after attempting to borrow a neighbor’s lyre and other items he never returns. The piece mocks borrowers who pledge to return things later and laments the narrator’s forbearance and lessons from the stubborn habit.
The Kansas City Journal argues that traditional diplomacy has failed Europe and only hard, sustained work can restore peace and prosperity. It urges European peoples to abandon old ambition driven statecraft and warns the United States to stay out of European power plays to avoid new entanglements.
The piece surveys Washington county crops and farms, noting good corn and oats prospects, widespread clover growth, and successful long time holdings such as the Sommers and Rumble farms. It contrasts thin and high ground farming, praising careful, conservative practices that yield profit even on poorer soils. It notes ample hogs and cattle, with field crops improving from the prior year.
The piece extols farm prospects for next year with poultry coverage across farms. It notes chickens in orchards eat pests and fatten, praising county home poultry as a model. Washington County is described as mostly all right and worth a drive to see the poultry setup.
A playful verse asks where to buy a knee cap or a hair lock key and wonders at the body as an academy of pupils in the crown and gems in the head. It queries facial bridges eyes and a hungry calf devouring corn, and even imagines joints needing punishment.
Henry Underwood recalls the 1878 United Brethren church at Sockum Ridge near Whitsel hill. Revivals drew large crowds, but factions led to court action. the building was moved by Arthur McFreland to Ainsworth for a parsonage and later discarded, blamed for vermin and bats.
The remark highlights an old friend who owned Paine's lights of Man and Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution in one volume and claimed the pair made a very poor hook, reflecting liberal thinking and literary taste.
In a Boston Transcript excerpt a small girl on the floor with a doll proclaims that God will guard them if they are good, but admits they must look after themselves since they are not always good.
A collection of humorous reader clippings and foibles from daily life. Jokes about Father’s Day returns, Sunday rest, misheard phrases, and small-town antics appear in letters and items. A reader mentions a bed bug, a Ford joke, and seeks details on a cigarette holder and a jug label for further inquiry.
A century ago a hunter with power in his gun pursued a deer, but modern times invert the scene as a deer with powder on her nose now seems to hunt man. In a lighter aside a busy shopper asks for liver and is told two or three are ahead, delaying her order.
In Newton Kansas a hel met device promotion runs for thirty days starting November 11 with Captain Glover offering a German helmet free with each appendicitis operation while supplies last. The notices mix quips about driving memory tests and farm values in Washington County. the ad hints a well improved place could sell for 250 dollars per acre.
The noted tip discusses makeup blending for women in Washington, pointing out abrupt neck line demarcations where makeup ends. It suggests smoother transitions for cheeks forehead and chin and offers a mild advisory note for improved color harmony.
A fragmentary verse recalls a man paying a harsh bill in a valley setting. The lines imply inevitability and consequence, with repeated imagery of payment and resistance, though overall meaning remains unclear from the snippet.
A fragmentary dialogue recalls a character urging Sam to marry, contrasting with a mother’s imagined condition about obtaining her shoes and stockings. The piece appears to parody or record a regional speech pattern about marriage and maternal control.
Hiram Johnson arrived in Washington forty years ago with $2.40 and says he hasn’t been broke since. The piece mentions Herey Ford adopting a new method of burning fuel twice and suggests a concern about inviting second hand coal dealers into the market.
The scene describes a Bridge Club gathering where Mrs. K. hushes the players as distant, tiny feet approach from the stairs. Children are anticipated to deliver a good night message, signaling a calm, domestic moment in the neighborhood.
West Chester native Ruth Elizabeth Leet received a Bachelor of Arts with first honors as Monmouth College graduated 61 members on June 14. Leet served as president of the college Y M C A during the year and led a successful program. She will join the consolidated school as an instructor for the upcoming year.
The article traces Saint David as the sixth century patron of Wales and influential in early Celtic Christianity. It notes Saxon pressure, isolation from Rome, Augustine’s later reforms, and claims David as Arthur’s bishop who founded Glastonbury and aided the Church in Wales Ireland and Scotland.
The passage notes Alexander the Great marching to India centuries before Christ. It highlights dates as a principal ration for his soldiers. It observes the Makran and Sind trade route and explains discarded date stones led to future palm groves along the route.
The Lily of Killarney, a quintessential Irish opera, was composed by German Julius Benedict. The Morning Post notes Benedict’s sharp wit and ease with Irish idiom while highlighting memorable airs like Eileen Aroon and I'm Lonesome. Its enduring charm remains after sixty years.
A new dye is reported to selectively color fibers in a fabric. White materials placed in the dye bath will take color while other components resist. In a cotton and artificial silk blend the cotton threads dye blue while the silk fibers color red yellow or orange depending on the dye used.
A compact quotation from KR, L, Magoon warns that half a fact is a full falsehood and that truth colored by deceit becomes the worst form of harm. The note emphasizes ethical speech and integrity.
In District Court in Vacation 1923 State of Iowa 88 Washington County to all whom it may concern you are hereby notified that an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Gust Anderson deceased dated June 12 1923 having been this day filed opened and read is fixed for hearing proof of same at the Court House in Washington Iowa before the District Court or the Clerk at 9 o clock a m on the day mentioned all interested are hereby notified to appear and show cause if any they have why said instrument should not be probated and allowed as and for the last will and testament of said deceased dated at Washington Iowa June 14 1923
Notice calls a stockholders meeting at the bank office in Haskins Iowa on June 27 1923 at two o clock p m. The agenda asks for renewal of the bank corporate existence for twenty years and adoption of Renewal Amended and Substituted Articles of Incorporation. Sidney Coon president J C Jones vice president W E Davis cashier Harry Dye D C Birney signers.
St John’s College Cambridge claims the world’s oldest college magazine the Eugle founded in 1858. Early contributors included Samuel Butler and other notable students such as Titus Oates Roger Ascham Ben Jonson and Wordsworth.
In Tutankhamen era Egypt, girls married before fourteen and lower-class women became mothers by fifteen grandmothers by thirty with many aged forty. This sketch notes social patterns of marriage motherhood and aging in ancient Egypt.
Charlie Doombrown buries his head on his arms and grits his palate as he endures an awkward moment during the event.
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