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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1921
Page
4
General Pershing cites that over 90 percent of welfare work in the army was done by the Y M C A and that the group also managed canteen duties. He notes critics faced supply and price issues while the Y M C A sold at cost or gave away millions in aid, urging recognition of their significant wartime contribution.
The verse recalls famous writers like Burns Poe Homer and Boswell who endured poverty before fame while contrasting their day’s rewards with a forthcoming boxing bout and a shared loot. The poem wryly notes genius receiving its due only after striking it rich.
A wartime speaker lauds the Young Men's Christian Association for leading education athletics and recreation in the A E F after Armistice. He credits nine tenths of welfare work to the Association and notes its role in improving morale, travel, and entertainment for servicemen.
The piece notes the summer solstice with a roughly fifteen hour day and reveals new signs guiding visitors to Washington's camping grounds near Chautauqua park. Tourists frequent the area nightly and locals praise the plan as city advertising with good intentions. A Washington man cites quick results from a prior want ad.
Spirit Lake Iowa June 21 The Knights Templar of Iowa will open their summer home at Templar park for the 1921 session on June 25. The 1600 member Templar family this year will include guests through Sept 1 with the grand commandery meeting slated for the opening week of July 4. A Spirly Lake band will furnish music for drill week and dances with Des Moines musicians. a motion picture machine will be installed in the asylum. The park offers 147 rooms for 1 to 5 people. Superintendent Fred W Schneider of West Union Iowa will oversee reservations and hotelman H Christopherson of Cedar Falls will manage dining room operations.
The Fox Theatre features Kazan based on James Oliver Curwood with a wolf dog playing Kazan. A camera man films a scene where the wolf dog mates with a real wolf and pups in a cave. In another sequence the dog chases and captures a rabbit in snowy terrain.
The plot centers on Kazan guiding prey to a cave while a lynx stalks a rock den and kills wolf pups. A legendary on screen duel then unfolds as Kazan confronts the lynx. The struggle ends with Kazan killing the lynx and the dog and wolf delivering the on screen attack as proof by producer William M. Selig.
Denver, June 21. Frank X Noschang president of the Journeymen Barbers International union and a delegates to the AFL convention said barber shop gossip isn t for ladies and urged discouraging their entrance into the trade. He noted lady barbers are popular in Seattle and Portland and that in forty years he met only one Irish barber.
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