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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1925
Page
4
A daily devotional note for Friday June 19 1925 cites II Kings 6 16 Fear not for they that be with us are more than they that be with them The brief reflection emphasizes courage through faith and divine presence for readers.
The long declining health of Senator La Follette ends as he leaves public life. Though campaigning for president he was unfit for duty and his career spanned battles and reform. He was a brilliant orator with strong sincerity and lasting influence despite disagreements.
Cashier Finley Nugent says access to the vault has become easier over recent months though initial awkwardness lingered. He compares France to a sport that rarely pays everyone, noting no payments are made to anyone.
Poet Walt Mason comically praises Bingle's dining room with coffee, codfish balls, and a brace of chickens while queuing complaints about other dishes. A diner named Dutton criticizes the fare as unadvertised and inferior before Mason backs the restaurant with playful verse and cheer.
The passage asserts that no man could achieve the political heights he did through gradual development, claiming inherent greatness and transformative progress shaped his career.
Amsterdam May 27 The Dutch windmills face preservation thanks to renewed American interest. The society The Dutch Mill has received many inquiries from Americans seeking mill details and hopes the remaining mills will be saved from demolition or replacement by modern machinery.
Winnipeg June 17 A railway engineer proposes tourists drive to the Hudson Bay line in their cars fitted with flanged rims to grip rails with even and odd day traffic for north and south bound trips. He says derailing shoes and minimal rail investment would yield higher freight revenue and attract sportsmen to the north.
A dense list of crossword clues and fragmented phrases across many numbers. Entries include hints like weight of coat, bone, head, cooking vessel, jumbled type, blackbird, metal disease rate bravery, prepared, young of the codfish, cry of a crow, to vend, string of beads, Hebrew name for God, alkali, stone, portion of donkey, consumption, beer, standard type measure, divisions of the calyx, skeleton of an animal used for beads, organ of sight, drone bee, silk worms, to sew, half an em, merchants, distant, spectators, house pet, resin for pipe stems, and various missing or garbled words and letters.
A mother presents newborn twins to a boy who had prayed nightly for a baby brother. He contemplates the twins, then quips that stopping his prayer prevented a possible three siblings, a lighthearted family moment.
A collage of quips and cartoons touches on marriage, editors, devotional notes, and small town life. It parodies adages and social foibles with lines about devotion, sin, and penny-pinching, then shifts to humorous vignettes about pantry raids and a disputed post office bid between Milo and Job.
A quirky exchange shows a self doubt in She tonite and Brute predicting a good time. A young business man recalls mentors who promised trade but didn’t show up. A steeplejack jokes about making a strong impression upon landing.
Fragmented theater dialogue and caption style pieces with snippets about a doorkeeper, a line about belief in numbers, a misquote on painting, and a humorous exchange on practice. Mentions of an errant husband and baptism in a river appear in varied contexts within a scrapbook of notes and quotes.
The fragment recalls a domestic dispute with Mrs Bang asking about the memory of their initial quarrel. It presents a personal dialogue fragment without further context or outcome.
Iowa's 1925 road paving program concentrates hard surfacing in Polk Scott Linn and Marshall counties. About 70.29 miles of improvements are planned with roughly 500 miles of primary road work overall including graveling and grading. Clinton Linn Marshall Greene will see complete highways, while Primary Road No 99% from Weclare to Muscatine line remains unpaved.
William Michael of Slema reserve pens at the Iowa State Fair for Chester White hogs exhibitor for 25 years. Indications point to more exhibitors than ever entering the fair this summer.
A merchant notes appreciation after hearing about the ad, expressing interest and recognition of its reach. The brief quote reflects a positive reaction to promotional notice.
Lesson centers on Acts 12 with Herod's imprisonment of Peter and the church's earnest united prayer. It details guards and quaternions, Peter's miraculous release by an angel, and the eventual death of Herod as the Word of the Lord grows. It emphasizes Peter's deliverance and the church's vigilant faith.
A quotation attributed to Nathaniel Micklem explains that the value of a deed lies in its motive and spirit. It contrasts the widow's mite with the rich's spare cash, arguing true worth comes from intention and purpose.
In a reflective note RH Glover reminds readers that faith to God comes first amid perplexity doubt and fear while urging trust in divine guidance and steadfast belief as the guiding principle.
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