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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1929
Page
4
Fragmentary verse reflecting on wandering and home. The speaker contrasts roaming with settling, invoking images of streets, barns, and gypsies. The piece contemplates life as a highway with mileposts of years, ending in a metaphorical golden town.
The Mid West Review highlights the Valley of the Mississippi as a cradle of American civilization with fifty percent of the population and seventy percent of raw products. It lists prominent figures including Lincoln Douglas Deere Oliver Studebaker Mark Twain and Ida Tarbell among others, naming many cultural and industrial leaders.
A curious collection of humorous lines and banter from a stage setting features a man claiming to be the village blacksmith asking a dancer to include a verse about mending automobiles. Other quips include a guest asking not to be told, and playful taunts about uncles and twins. The scene blends entertainment with light dialogue and audience reactions.
An assorted mosaic from Lord by J B Mills includes Prohibition debate among railroaders, theater chatter, courtroom quips, musical reminiscences, and clipped humor. It blends regional banter with jokes and snippets about roads, radios, politics, and daily life, reflecting a lively, era-specific conversational voice.
The piece likens Lincoln and Lindbergh to midwestern symbols of progress. It notes Lindbergh’s twenty fth birthday and Lincoln’s youthful trip to Vandalia for a new legislature, framing both as markers of America’s development from pioneer roots to a world power in a mechanized age.
A fragment discusses vocabulary building by mastering one word per date. It defines reverence as profound respect mingled with fear and affection, citing as example slaves' reverence for a master. The note references antitoxin themes and a quotation about repetition of a word.
The passage credits a carnival thriller inventor and Gil de Gray for learning from rough Iowa spring roads. It notes lessons from a Lindbergh accident, with a remark about predicting a crash and surprise at its timing. The text references Art and Mr Knight in a speculative, anecdotal vein about accident outcomes.
The fragment describes a father explaining the term college bred as a product of the flour of youth and the dough of old age, told by D Morrison in a humorous exchange with a small boy. The caption notes the father’s response and the playful tone of the line.
A reader letter from By The Way recalls days at the Journal office with playful notes about staff, jokes, and small gags. The writer shares humorous snippets about colleagues, jokes from Florida, and a quip about a manager’s lessons.
A collage of odds and ends from church life and everyday jokes. It includes an elderly parishioner stubbornly resisting retirement, a child asking about the President, a license applicant with a four-word misfire, a platform sprinting porter’s quip, and a string of one liners about cars, teeth, and babies.
No 5973 term 1929. Della Hollingsworth last will and testament dated March 18 1928 filed opened read. Hearing fixed March 9 1929 at 9 00 A M at the court house before the district court clerk to show cause why the instrument should not be probated and allowed. By order Edna Purvis clerk. Dated Washington Iowa March.
A candid job seeker reports an interviewer saying the position is open right behind the applicant. The employer adds a light remark hoping to see them again, using the nickname Gypsy. The exchange is brief and informal and centers on a potential employment opportunity.
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