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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1924
Page
4
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A brief devotional quotes Romans 12 16 17 21 urging kindness and brotherly love. It emphasizes honoring others, avoiding revenge, doing what is good in sight of all, and overcoming evil with good.
The piece argues that tariff policy drives current economic troubles and defends the Republican platform. It cites the 1921 Emergency Tariff and 1922 Tariff Act, warns against rapid tariff cuts, and emphasizes protectionist aims for American industry, agriculture, and workers.
Verse notes the speaker's fly swatting zeal and the moral question of flies rights. It contrasts aggressive pest control with sympathy for living creatures and mentions neighbors praising the deed and the imagined consequences of fly populations.
A conference in Clifden Galway reports acute distress in the West of Ireland and urges government action. The Mayo poor relief scheme has driven taxes up by about 400 percent in recent months.
A dense schedule shows radio stations across major cities broadcasting Democratic convention coverage and diverse programs from church lessons to orchestras. Notable entries include WHN New York with solos and orchestras and WCAP Washington marking Democratic convention coverage.
The famous 200 at Stellingen near Hamburg, founded by Karl Hagenbeck in 1907, reopens after a closure for financial reasons since 1920. The reopening results from the initiative of Henry and Lorenz Hagenbeck, sons of the renowned showman, who replenished the zoo with beasts of prey from India and Africa that had been killed off during World War I to conserve food.
A fragment collage of wry maxims and cartoon captions. It references traffic near Klein Lemmon Light, old sayings, humorous lines about shoes gardens and public figures, and a series of vignettes about daily life. The piece blends humor with moral quips and playful social commentary.
A 1924 Mercedes letter from Arthur Therion discusses land offers and prices in the Rio Grande Valley. He cites $25 000 per acre as excessive for five acres and recalls neighbor bids of $3 500 per acre, with cabbage and root crops yielding solid per acre returns. He notes rain injuring cotton and invites the conductor to return and visit the valley.
A Joliet man left 35000 for school lunch programs, raising questions of mental soundness but warm intent. The page also notes a Urbana student named Fudge, a Moody Bible school project using packing boxes, and a string of quips about education, geography, and social topics from a long feature-like column.
Dustin Farnum plays John Buckner in Kentucky Days at the Fox theatre a romantic Kentuckian who travels to the gold fields. Buckner returns to find his wife with cousin Gordon Carter a duel ensues and Buckner destroys the home before taking his wife west. Margaret Fielding Bruce Gordon and William P. DeVault also star in this dramatic western. Captain William Rule marked his eighty fifth birthday at his Knoxville desk.
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