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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1919
Page
8
An authorized representative Nita Belly from Koon Missouri promotes club prices and savings after 5:20 p m. Readers are invited to write for lists and view price details.
Big public dance at Armory in Riverside features Shubert's Orchestra Friday night June 27. Everybody welcome.
A local page lists varied items from cream and butter fat pricing to sewing at home and a long advertisement for Cuauhtemoc Mines. It blends factory offers, fabric sales, job notices, and stock promotion with bank references and calls to investors.
A collection of social notices, visits, travel, small ads, and shop promotions. Names include Erma McCaulley and Alberta. Miss Bennett. Mrs. Statler. Paul French. Mrs. Chalmers. Mrs. Capps. Mr. Cruz. and Crall store fashion offers. Also a dance invite, an Edison music evening, and general town items from rail to hospital days.
A stream of regional visitors and residents mark the day in Washington and Brighton. Licenses issued include Louis J. Miller and Eva Louise Downs. A boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Alan Jones in North Washington. Several Kansas City and Everett connections stop through, with teaching plans noted for Miss Elizabeth Klein. An incubator sale prompts the Journal to advise on selling ads and clearing clutter.
A brief piece asserts that oratory remains a powerful enduring art. It recalls Demosthenes Cicero Webster and Ingersoll as enduring exemplars and envisions a revival of skilled orators in future forums.
A quoted maxim urges that those who venture boldly may fail often yet gain through each setback as a stepping stone. Hesitation and constant weighing of gains doom progress. The attitude of mind determines success or predestined failure.
A cashier compliments a young typist on her figure and typing, then she retorts with a witty exchange about their differences in skills and appearance. The scene plays on humor about numbers and personality in a brief office interaction.
A historical note defines animal as any living organism excluding plants with reproduction and respiration. It contrasts brute as higher quadrupeds like cows horses dogs and as a term for animals lower than man in some usages. The text also mentions a restricted sense comparing terms.
The music of Hail Columbia was composed as The President's March and reportedly first played in Washington in the presence of George Washington at the old John Street Theater in New York during his inauguration.
A terse line extols wit and understanding, praising those who possess keen intellect and perceptive judgment. The statement suggests that true wit reveals itself through practical insight and thoughtful reasoning.
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