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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1921
Page
6
The column prints brief Sunday sermon quotations by local ministers, focusing on grace and future blessedness. It argues missions as Christianity’s heart, grounded in Jesus's commission, world needs, and Christianity’s unique global expansion potential, urging hopeful, groundward living.
Pastor M R Regan argues from John 4 35 that life presents hard realities and that faith must confront them. He urges Christians to lift eyes to the ready harvest of souls and to assume immediate personal responsibility for soul winning in a world growing worldly and wicked.
Sermon by Rev. Leslie Mountford at United Presbyterian Church cites I Peter 1 13 urging believers to fix their hope firmly on the grace to be revealed in Jesus Christ through salvation.
Local organizations schedule meetings and events through mid March. Cyrus Chapter R A M confers Past and Most Excellent degrees at 8 pm. Pythian circle meets Wednesday at 2 30 with Mrs LangWorth. West Chester Ladies Aid holds social March 16. Independent club hosts March 17 with officer elections. G A R post meets Tuesday at 2 pm. C W society Haskins presents The Sweet Family March 19 with silver offering. Havre Social club hosts Thursday gathering. Fortnightly club afternoon literature Monday with Mrs Anderson. Legionaire club Wednesday with donations for bazaar. Alma Hearne Holland Auxiliary meeting moved to Friday due to Fathers and Sons Banquet.
Dr W W Bowers preached a missionary sermon at the Methodist church in behalf of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. At the close the annual Thank Offering for the local branch was received. Text was Matthew 28 19 20.
In Washington on March 16 Mrs. Elmer Kephart leads an all day meeting. The Fortnightly club evening literature group discusses Ezekiel questions with Mrs Acheson guiding. Civics department meets March 16 at 2 30 pm for a program on President Harding and cabinet figures.
The article traces the origins of savings banks from 1816 in Boston and the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society to later establishments in New York and Hamburg. It notes the Zurich bank as the world’s oldest, with its 167th year, and cites Britain’s first regular savings bank in Edinburgh about 107 years ago.
The article states a small number are entirely free from mental low mood while many are affected by bouts of malaise. It argues the more intellectual population is more prone to this condition than the broader, less brainy majority.
In damp air preceding rain, spiders retreat and hide since insects avoid flying in wet conditions. The behavior reflects spiders seeking cover as weather turns threatening.
Rev A R Oates preaches the worth of human personality and urges continued support for Presbyterian missionary work in Africa Persia China and among immigrants lumber jacks and the sick. The sermon links belief in worth to ongoing church contributions to Hoards and Agencies for missionary effort.
Mrs. W. E. Cilley near Wapello was mauled by a sow while driving pigs into a barn. She tripped, fell, and the sow bit her back until Roy Cilley pulled the animal away. A doctor treated the wound with stitches and she nurses a nervous shock.
Yee Geow, a Chinese murderer, went to the gallows smiling in Rawlins Wyoming. The trap was sprung at 12 24 a m and death pronounced thirteen minutes later. He was convicted of the September murder of Thomas Holland in Cheyenne. Clemmency petitions to Governor Carey failed after doctors found him sane. He offered no statement.
A French naturalist named Trouvelot in Malden Massachusetts left a box with gypsy moth eggs on a window ledge. The box blew off during experiments with caterpillars in the 1880s, sparking widespread nuisance and costly eradication efforts nationwide.
The external jugular veins lie beneath the skin and drain external head and neck areas, while the internal jugular veins carry blood from the lateral sinus toward the heart. Each side of the neck contains two jugular veins, one external and one internal, serving distinct venous drainage paths.
A reflective observation from the Boston Transcript noting that in many homes one frugal personality keeps lights off while others use more energy during long winter evenings.
C G Rogers alias Durant and Pearson is jailed in Toledo awaiting grand jury action on charges of attempting to obtain property under false pretences. He, working for Sherman Buchanan near Tama, is linked to two forged checks for 35 and 40 dollars bearing the name M B Dobson. A farm town incident included a shoe purchase at Witesky's and a suit offer at Kraft's with the same signature fraud.
Kraft called by phone to Montour bank and urged arrest of the man with the offered check. Rogers was later arrested at the Chicago Cafe by Deputy Sheriff Clow Marschal Houghton and J. H. McKinney. He claimed the checks came from M. B. Dodson of Syracuse New York in payment for stored furniture. Rogers was jailed for safe keeping after arraignment before Mayor Hixson.
A man measured upward sap flow by cutting a vine and tying a bladder to its cut end. Within two hours the bladder swelled greatly and within three hours it burst with a plop, illustrating the powerful force moving sap through plants.
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