Bible Thought for Today March 5 1925
A devotional note cites Matthew 6 6 8 urging private prayer and divine reward. It reminds readers that God knows needs before they ask and to seek him in secret.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1925
Page
4
Listening to the President and the Rise of Radio
An editorial examines the impact of the presidential address broadcast yesterday the growing reach of radio and its potential effects on politics and office succession. It questions voter behavior under the new primary system and the persistence of traditional patronage in local and state offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason Recounts Credit Scam
The poem recalls a phony check scheme against a grocer during Grocer Week, with moral remorse and satire on public virtue. It notes past civic involvement and warns that sins resurface to ruin reputations and public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Mason
Teacs
Bor
Picoyunes
Jomeon
Tol
Radio Program For Tomorrow and the public will
A radio featured piece argues that voters demand solid government in exchange for their votes and criticizes political manipulation. The text praises past economic measures under Harding and Coolidge, notes the rise of direct voter voice, and lists several radio programs and stations illustrating public access to officials and culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding-Coolidge
Republican Party
Coolidge
Dawes
Concert Listings Across Stations and Cities Noted
A sprawling roundup lists radio station concert broadcasts across multiple cities including Los Angeles WHAS Louisville WCCO Minneapolis St Paul and New York WEAF and WJY. Entries mention orchestras choirs organists instrumental trios and vocalists with times ranging from 6:30 to 12:40 and various ensemble names. It also reports local notices from Iowa and descriptions of two deaths and a manslaughter case as part of a regional news digest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KFI
Los Angeles
WHAS
Louisville Times
Wcco -Minneap St Paul
Millards
WEAF
New York
Coprano
Candy Boys
Etra Wiz
Wall Journal Review
NYU Air College
Orchesra Wjy
Newark
KGO Oakland
KLX Oakland
Omaha
WIT Prindelphia
Philadelpha
Canees Os Reeitel
Kdka Pittebureh
Wcae Pittsbureh
WDWF
Providence
KGW
Portland Oregonian
KPO San Francisco
WGY
Schenectady
Strand Theatre
Quips and Quirks in a Mixed Weather and Wit Picture
A collage of short items and jokes spans weather notices humor and social quips. It includes spring snows and wardrobe advice, a purchase anecdote, moral tales, light banter on love and marriage, and plus a nod to future traffic in pedestrians with cars or harps.
Sunday Evening Lunch and a Can Opener Quip
A lightroom exchange unfolds at a Washington home as a husband cracks a sandwich meat can with a can opener, while his wife jokes he assumed prayer would do the job. A separate cartoonish line warns about past book agents and voting anecdotes with wry wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Light hair and early rises feature in quick exchanges
A string of brief, humorous classroom and society vignettes unfolds. A business man explains the light red hair color as his wife’s. A superintendent notes one pupil absent, Kitty Morgan. A quip about bagpipers follows. President Coolidge wakes prominent men for breakfast. A musical joke ends with a line about singing lessons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitty Morgan
President Coolidge
Arthur Clemence Reflects On Presidential Address
Arthur Clemence shares reaction after listening along with a large audience to the president’s broadcast. He notes the speech and its themes, indicating personal impressions and public interest.
The Perfect Wife Lecture and a Humorous Interruption
A lecturer on the Perfect Wife asserts duties including cooking and managing the home while a small man challenges the last task sewing. The exchange leads to a joke about a latch key and a cheerleader's winter arms behavior alongside a note on crossword puzzles drawing men home in the evenings.
Welcoming New Faces and Odd Bits of Verse
A quirky fragment from a periodical features a friendly greeting to newcomers, a poem about the first spring bird that dies mid song, and a jumble of lines on evolution and a radio minister’s remark. It mentions a coal shoveling householder and a biblical note on origins.
Red Top the weather prophet rooster swells with vanity
Ned Top the rooster boasts in the barnyard about his weather predicting power and human-like thoughts. Mrs. Duck mocks him while Red Top proclaims his imagined greatness and compares himself to a farmer and his family. A talking farmyard scene ends with a cock crow and self doubt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned Top
Mrs. Duck
Miss Hen
Eggily
Quack
Red Top
Ion
Billy Goat
Mrs. Goose
Mr. G
Red ‘Top
Dead Night for Radios
Betty and her cousin Bob by discuss radios with pride for their sets. They plan to listen to Bob by s radio but Betty declares it is the dead night for radios and refuses to listen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Bobby
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