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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1926
Page
4
A brief biblical reflection contrasts being carnally minded with spiritual focus. It asserts death follows carnal thinking while life and peace come from spiritual awareness, citing Romans eight six as the authority.
A Methodist Bishop in India notes American anti prohibition messaging influences Eastern readers who question why Americans tolerate such a policy. He points to favorable European commission reports and English skepticism of rum smuggling, predicting rising support for enforcement as public condemnation grows among England’s scofflaws.
Senator Borah argues that changing prohibition laws is now a constitutional issue with no alternative approach. He warns against evasion or violation of the law as the only path forward.
A compact note set defines usage for looks badly versus looks bad and explains mispronunciations of sesame. It offers synonyms for attribute impute and assign and promotes daily vocabulary growth with the word insipidity.
Senator Borah argues that enforcing the Constitution and its laws is the supreme test of good citizenship. He condemns evading or nullifying the law and urges adherence to the Eighteenth Amendment. He warns referendums undermining the amendment threaten self-government.
Attend the road meeting tomorrow Wednesday at 10 30 in the court room. Chief Engineer White of the State Highway Commission and Senator Bergman of Jasper County will discuss the proposed plan to solve road problems with representatives from nearby counties. The purpose is to acquaint all with the road situation in Iowa and present fast improving plans. All are welcome.
The June 21 report details a heavy rain storm that raised Smith Creek to bank-full and caused cellar flooding. It also lists local visits, initiations at the Pythian Lodge, travels to Des Moines and Washington, upcoming trips, and the death of William Penningroth with his role as a special agent for Washington County Mutual Insurance.
Community notes cover births deaths and family moves including Mrs Love’s infant loss and amputations after sepsis, Elza Crossett’s death and kin, Maggie Wells surgery, Wes Lantz and family moving to Iowa City, farm insurance trends, weather hurting crops, visits and travels across towns, and local social events with Oak Park dance and cattle shipments to Chicago.
Lead filings from an ordinary pipe taken by a rasp are sprinkled onto pipe joints to create tighter joints than paste. The note attributes this as a science service observation.
The seventh century English monk Benedict Biscop is credited by chronicler William of Malmesbury as the first person to introduce in England the practice of building stone structures. This claim situates Biscop as a pivotal figure in early English architecture and monastic patronage.
A collage of musings and letters on poetry, identity, and daily life. The piece riffs on authorship, fame, and cultural clues with mock dialogues and social humor, referencing Hypocondriac La Poetaster, Marquis La Follette, and casual household vignettes.
A humor item describes a patient praised for appearance while asking a doctor why her throat hurts, ending with the doctor declaring agite tonsilitis. The cartoonish line plays on the wordplay and social vanity of the era.
A collage of quips and confessions features a grateful patient praising medicine for restoring mobility, risqué stage-door banter, marriage musings, and jokes about hair products and trains. The varied items echo a late era newspaper humor page with anonymous voices and light irony.
In a terse exchange a barber demands silence from a customer, who retorts with a pointed request for the barber to stop talking. The brief vignette captures a clash of personalities in a shop setting.
A speaker denounces imposters claiming his name and nationality. He asserts Castilian blood and Yankee roots, warns against confronting imposters at the peckni, and references ancestry linked to the French Revolution and Spain. He vows resistance if confronted.
A reminiscence describes a cluttered basement with a cement floor and a peculiar cellar door system. The writer recalls lifting a split back door with Pa, two doors that open both ways, letting children slide through. A nail and a scratch on a leg mark rough play, and the memory ends with the hopeful note of recovery.
A humorous dialogue about rush hour trains and a secret society, with Jasper joking about a goat initiation and Gasper recalling a ride in a small car sold to the Chief Exalted. The exchange contrasts vanity and durability, ending with a quip on choosing beauty over lasting value.
Flossie Gay says she will not dine out again with an editor. Her friend asks if he was broke, and Flossie replies she is unsure, but notes he marked about half of her ordinary Yellow with a blue pencil.
A vague eyewitness tale from a young man on a train near Cedar Iowa by Oskaloosa mentions a station platform sighting. The report includes garbled phrases about travel through Oskaloosa and Havre and then a separate joke about a wife impersonating an officer.
A fragmented item notes spring themes such as fresh flowers fruit eggs air water paint and mentions people and seasonal changes with an emphasis on renewal and everyday tasks. The tone resembles a local column snippet urging attention to tidy seasonal preparations.
A dramatic melodrama of railroad life set in West Virginia arrives as the Fox Theatre presents The Midnight Flyer next Wednesday and Thursday. The F B O Gold Bond Special adapts Arthur Guy Empey stories with an all star cast led by Cullen Landis Dorothy Devore Buddy Post and others in a high tension production directed by Tom Forman.
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