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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1907
Page
7
A starving northern boy Gingan turns half a gog salmon into a growing fish that guides him to a canoe of food. He joins a voyage beyond the sky and becomes salmon with his kin, returning to his river home amid a tribal fishery and family reunion.
In this tale from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, Gingan is taken by salmon people after discarding a piece of salmon. He is warned not to eat salmon eggs or a certain dish, otherwise he will become a salmon. After a week in Salmon Town and a festival by the herring people, he returns to land as a boy, later becomes a chief, but one day again eats a salmon and vanishes into the river drum call of the salmon people.
Katie visits her preacher grandfather and uncles claim the moon is green cheese. He directs her to the Bible. She reads Genesis and discovers the moon existed before cows, resolving the debate with humor.
A collection of light verse and pub style quips posing questions about debts, wood, misfortune, a bald head, and daily life. The banter contrasts a pastry cook with a billposter and notes a man’s first garden action as setting his foot in place.
A detailed needlework pattern explains making a folding coat hanger case from a 27 by 1 inch linen strip lined with brown taffeta. It covers cutting shaping, stitching, binding with brown satin ribbon, and adding a metal clip fastener.
A passenger disputes a bus conductor’s actions with sharp tongue and bold assertions about aristocratic connections. The exchange captures a sharp street encounter during a routine ride.
A small town cow owner demonstrates productive dairy keeping. The family, a household of three, used the cow to supply neighbors and sold milk through the year totaling eighty dollars in quart and half quart deliveries. The cow received extra good care and proved highly productive, rivaling earnings from eighty acre renter farms.
The text compares progress to water reaching a true boil to generate steam. Lukewarm effort stalls plans and keeps people from advancing, as mere desire remains warm water and never drives action. True purpose must boil into live steam to move forward.
The Reverend Worden commends Miss Marie C Brehm for her work with the Monona Lake Assembly in Madison and in Chicago, praising her discipline and oratory. Kokomo reports Miss Brehm’s sermon at the Congregational church and announces her Washington address on July 10 at the Methodist church, highlighting her influence in temperance education.
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