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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1936
Page
8
Morley recalls Goudy describing font creation as choosing a letter and drawing around it. He notes the writer must learn to think first and seek an audience receptive to ideas.
A new lamp in the Durban lighthouse increases light from 190000 to 8000000 candlepower waking residents nightly. The beam sweeps every seven seconds and penetrates curtains. Protests rise. planners consider shutters to curb the glare.
The Department of Justice reports that drug trafficking arrests topped all others in the country during the first nine months of the year. More than 4,272 individuals were arrested for dope offenses, with over 68 percent carrying prior criminal records.
The editor of the Journal and his wife left on June 24, 1926, for a journey to the land of the Midnight Sun.
Dr. H. L. Gordon of Brighton is named to the examining board for the State Fair Osteopathic clinic for a second year. The column also notes Brighton residents traveling to St. Paul and Seattle, a horse injury in Clay township, a throat operation recovery in Iowa City, and community members attending the 4 H State Convention in Des Moines.
The quote presents Hi He, a Chinatown sage, distinguishing patience as a virtue for the wise and noting that true wisdom recognizes when further patience is futile. It frames patience as a nuanced discernment rather than a simple virtue.
A black rose budded from the viginal to Germany is now widely produced here. It bears a petal that is deep red at the stem, deepens to purple as it widens, and turns entirely black near the tip.
The text notes USNO parallax suggesting the North Star is about 45 light years away. It describes ancient Rome hair color as a class indicator with nobles dyeing red, middle class yellow, and poor tinting black. It also explains the Dead Sea fruit apples of Sodom as hot inside yet beautiful on the outside, metaphorically symbolizing disappointment in sin.
The text credits Copernicus 1437 1548 with establishing the idea that the earth revolves around the sun, contrasting with the then prevailing belief that the sun moves around the earth. The note references early astronomers and the shift in astronomical thought.
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