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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1924
Page
4
The article states the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to publish all news dispatches credited in this paper and reserves local and special dispatch publication rights. It underscores exclusive publication rights.
A brief devotional entry from March 8 1924 emphasizes kindness and brotherly love. It urges honoring others, returning good for evil, and doing what is honest in all eyes, citing Romans 12 1 17 21.
Delegations from Europe report to their governments that prohibition is succeeding in the United States and will endure. Critics claim flaunting law exists, but leaders like Governor Smith and Mayor Dever push enforcement while a Geneva League note cites health gains from reduced drinking. A St Paul judge books violators, underscoring law’s appeal.
In verse, Walt Mason recalls Teapot Dome’s oil scandal era as a distant homeland. A family once prospered on a gentle rise before oil foulness turned streams to grease and life to sorrow, prompting a move away while memories linger.
A judge urges defendants to plead guilty and avoid delaying proceedings. He warns against a downward trend toward flouting the law and asks them to use their jail time for reflection and to choose the right path.
The Rev McCrory preached at St Luke’s on Our Debt to Our Savior. He argued Jesus valued modesty and charity, choosing poverty to better serve humanity, noting Christ’s carpenter trade and reliance on aid before his public mission.
A sermon-style reflection compares Jesus wealth to spiritual riches for believers. It tells of a missionary meeting an old blind man who waited forty years to hear the gospel and learns the lamb story’s ending. The tale reinforces gratitude for Christ's sacrifice and the responsibility of sharing faith.
The report notes an annual gasoline price investigation underway perhaps to explain why a dollar per gallon is hard to reach. A separate LA case mentions 18 inches of skin grafting after a cigarette in bed incident.
Associated Press radio digest lists schedules for KDKA to WWJ with times and program types including talk, children, concerts, orchestras, dances, bedtime stories, farm talks, and news, spanning cities from Pittsburgh to Detroit.
A World War era tone reports a German locomotive provokes a Frenchman reaction while political shifts hint at a scramble for government offices. A light aside urges readers to inform merchants they saw their ads in the Journal.
A scattered collection of antiquated quips and sayings touches politics, advertising, travel sales, etiquette, and society. Witty exchanges reference Teapot Dome, consumerism, and cultural clashes, with snippets about clocks and London's Parliament towers.
A humorous reminiscence mixes a colored minister sermon about hell with oil drilling imagery and a quip about a married daughter. The fragment cites a whale tale of Jonah and ends with a dietary joke about onions, reflecting dated social tone and dialect.
A reader notes little Donna Jean Applegate may hold the county record with ten grandparents. He lists families and kin terms, then cites aphorisms about marriage and divorce and a reader exchange about wages. The missive ends with a humorous want ad seeking a man with sixteen gallons.
A local marketman replies to a gentleman's inquiry about hog weighing that he will weigh for nothing, stating the service is free and offered directly at the market.
Albert Simpson's young son visiting grandparents John and Mrs Simpson cannot recall his first name. Mrs Simpson feeds squirrels with an apple after running out of hickory nuts, while the boy suggests making nut sandwich treats.
A London doctor warns that people may resemble what they eat, noting if that happened in America many would look like ham. The quirky column begins with a joke about a bachelor holding a baby and a bone in the hand.
Reported Peruvian burglary describes thieves approaching a house with a sponge and bucket of water. They smother mud on the door and frame, soften it, cut an opening, and pass through to enter the home.
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