Automobiles and Booze Told as Competing Forces
In a Washington county reflection, the writer argues the rise of automobiles correlates with the decline of the liquor industry. He asserts prosperity increases as booze wanes and envisions longer lives, better attire, richer travel, and more leisure as dividends of eliminating alcohol. He dismisses panic and urges embracing the changing times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Washington City
United States
John Barleycorn
Fragmented talk hints at changing old time beliefs
The readable lines reflect a nostalgic voice debating practical medicine and grooming norms. The speaker muses on how swiftly an informed man can cut through a debate about traditional remedies and the value of glossy whiskers as a sign of knowledge.
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason on March Winds
Poem extols March winds and changing seasons inviting readers to enjoy brisk days beneath trees as heat of summer looms. It notes upcoming June July August periods and contrasts tepid spring with coming strains of heat and chores.
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Donjon
Iowa Fairs and Washington County Agriculture Highlighted
The piece notes ninety five county fairs and livestock exhibitions in Iowa for the coming season. It contrasts Washington County's rich agricultural resources with Cedar Rapids plans to spend $100000 on an American Legion headquarters funded by public subscription, using the old Methodist church as the site and prompting calls for volunteers to pass the subscription paper.
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Iowa
Washington County
Cedar Rapids
American Legion
Borrowed smiles and Chesterton autograph note
A minister in a Hawaiian country district creates a marriage service to ensure couples understand and agree to staying together. A schoolboy shows a Chesterton autograph reply acknowledging imperfect English and praising writing as a path to learning, with a wry line about reviewers.
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Hawaiian Islands
San Francisco Chronicle
G. K. Chesterton
Mr. Chesterton
Westminster Gazette
Rich Feeling In a Simple Purchase Ruse
A clipped note from the Fremont Gazette hints at the humor of flaunting wealth by asking to wrap an unaffordable item. The Des Moines Regis and Cedar Rapids Republican mock persistent experts and Californians moving to Iowa, joking about perpetual motion and a landlord rent surge from new arrivals.
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Des Moines Regis
Iowa
Supreme Hogs and Gougers
Cedar Rapids Republican
Notable WWI leaders and public figures quote montage
A collection of remarks by von Hindenburg Foch Haig Pershing Howe and House notes on politics preachers and society. Includes sharp lines from Billy Sunday Edward A Ross John Sharpe Williams William George Bruce Rev John Stratton John D Rockefeller and Bishop John Hurst on race labor and civilization themes.
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von Hindenburg
Marshal Foch
Haig
General Pershing
Howe
House
Wether
Billy
Edward A. Ross
John Sharpe Williams
William George Bruce
Great Lakes
John R. Stratton
John D. Rockefeller
John Hurst
South
Vanderslice-Stabmer Shoe Co Expands Iowa Factory
Davenport Iowa March 13 The Vanderslice Stabmer Shoe company bought an acre to build a larger wooden shoe factory. It now produces 300 pairs daily as demand grows. Wooden shoes are used in wet factories like fish canneries and breweries. Shoes use southern soft maple soles two inches thick at the heel and one and a half at the ball, lined with felt uppers leather. The firm bought out the German shop nine years ago and commercialized the business.
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Davenport
Vanderslice-Stabmer Shoe Company
Wapello Cavalry Officers Appointed
Frank Deihl named captain of the First Iowa Cavalry U. S. N. G. at Wapello with George W. Young as first lieutenant and Dean Thomas as second lieutenant. Appointments issued by the adjutant general's office Des Moines dated March 8 and conferred March 4, 1920.
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Wapello
Frank Deihl
First Iowa Cavalry U. S. N. G
George W. Young
Dean Thomas
Adjutant General's Office
Des Moines
Armenian Relief Work Continues In Near East Diaries
Chris Graber of Marion Township details a five day relief field trip starting January 6 with guides through Orontes river towns near Antioch. He lists aid distribution, extensive orphan and widow inspections, journal notes on hunger and safety, and setup of dispensary forms and doctor access for 60 patients.
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Chris Graber
Marion Township
Near East
Arif Affendy
Jandarm
Dumit
Orontes
Antioch
Sunden
Orentes
George Smaan
Neice
Esther
Armen
Gove
Eryone
Yakub
Kub
Tam Gald
Foolish California critics target greed on the coast
The Burlington Hawkeye laments a return of greed in California once celebrated as Califor nia felix. It says visitors complain of shameless exploitation on the coast and predicts other states will lure tourists, replacing “Happy California” with “Foolish California.”
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Burlington
California
Felix
Verlaine Life in Paris Bohemia and Later Faith
The fragment recalls Paul Verlaine as a gifted French poet who alternated between religious ecstasy and excess. After 1870 he lived bohemian life in Paris then vanished for eleven years and reemerged in 1881 with Sageese as a quasi Catholic figure.
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Paul Verlaine
Paris
Verlaine
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Eeeteewen
Are Martin
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America
Fremont Gazette
Kaehosen
Muchtai
Altho
Rocky Mountains
Sundea
Jerusalem
Vakft
Khuderbek
Egypt
Suadea
Bone
F. F. Dalle ¢ Corporations Ltd
Buffalo, W.Y
Navo
Americas
W.B. Nuform
Weingarten Bros., Inc
W.B. Inform
New
Physicians and Surgeons
A. John Droz
PHONS
Irvin E. Huston
Southwest Corner Square
Lemkey
Washington, IA
S. H. Bateman
M. D. Blair Ridg
J. E. Edgington
M. D
F. & M. Bank
Chiropractors
Lemmon's Pharmacy
Blue
Attor
Federal Farm Loana
Opera Ho Phone
Mutual Pho
T. A. Michels
Temple Building
Washington, Iowa
Black
Cc. J. Wilson
CO. C. Wilson
Wilson & Wilson
Opposite Journal
Morrison & Morrison
Tlcher, Livingston & Richer: Law
Abetract Department
Kington, Iowa
W. M. Keeley
Cordelia E. Klopfenstein
F. & M. Bank Bldg
G. W.meyer
Keota, Iowa
M. H. Sartor
Sartor & Sartor Chiropractors
Klein Klothing Ko
W. H. Butterfield
Crall’s
Austin Sutherland Auctioneer
REAL
J. D. Dayton
Westchester, Iowa
Waghi County
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