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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1929
Page
5
Locals report road conditions improving after thaw and mention of frequent weather changes. Many move or rent properties, attend dances, and discuss school board elections and public education importance. Community updates include health, travel, farming, and social visits across Wellman and nearby towns.
Advert says a baby waking by sharp cries means colic is ready. Suggests Fletcher's Castoria as a safe, vegetable remedy for infants and children to ease fussiness, constipation, colic, gas and upset stomachs. Claims it contains no harmful drug and bears the Fletcher signature.
A Sunday gathering at the Henry William home in Alshamra celebrated a happy reunion for Mr and Mrs Clifford Elmore. The event marked a joyful family moment with friends and relatives joining in the occasion at their residence.
A statement linking the phrase "merchant princes" to Isaiah 23 8 is cited. The verse reads Tyre is called the crown ing city whose merchants are princes and traffickers are the honorable of the earth, suggesting a biblical origin for the term.
A traveling merchant once disliked his townsmen and moved away only to find himself in a stranger town that claimed to be the finest city in the United States. He discovers it is his old home, teaching that good fellowship among neighbors yields cooperation and success.
A survey of strange natural sounds from Mount EF Bromador in the Chilean Andes, a Nevada mountain, Bigg Island sands near Scotland, China, and England’s Cross Fell in Westmorland. Each location emits winds or grain interactions creating eerie noises once deemed demonic or supernatural by locals and visitors.
At Kew Gardens a new house for carnivorous plants displays sundews from Australia and South Africa. The leaves bend their tentacles around meat or egg fragments, enveloping the morsel for digestion, then return to their erect position with dew forming at the tips. Inorganic particles like sand are ignored.
The New York Sun notes Lancashire thrift clubs fund a year of pre paid, weekly subscriptions for a August Wakes holiday and ten day closures. Mills and workers head to Blackpool Isle of Man, with Stockport members withdrawing 767500 in one week and Shaw saving 251000 for a summer spree despite poor trade.
The parachute's origins trace to Sebastian Lowermand who descended from a Lyons house in 1784. Garnetin made the first balloon descent in Paris in 1797, and Captain Berry reportedly jumped from an airplane in 1912 at St Louis. A mid sized parachute folded into a conical cylinder hung under a Benoiist pusher biplane piloted by Tony Janus. Lieutenant Macready is noted as the first emergency air jump from a plane per the Washington Star.
Milw. Journal writer Bill Hook recounts a 1906 encounter with a Catskills innkeeper who firmly believed in Rip Van Winkle’s sleeper and sought to persuade Joe Jefferson of the tale’s authenticity, though Jefferson remained unconvinced. The Detroit News notes the claim as part of a larger discussion on the legend.
A refined diner in a smart restaurant, about to leave, hears the orchestra still set to play. A colonel barkingly orders a bat removed, prompting the meek man to apologize and ask if they are playing the national anthem. The colonel insists: No its my bat.
In a Michigan report Blake, a Kings English export of auto accessories, quotes a perplexing Accra client letter. The text displays formal, elaborate phrasing and a request for a catalogue and samples, illustrating a cross Atlantic commerce moment and misperceived imperial language norms.
Evelyn Waltin of West Chester spends time with cousin Wanda Ruth Smith while the George Baker family travels from Birmingham via Chevrolet. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. Harold Griggs and Mrs. D F E Brumback and others at the Methodist church. A dog incident near Floyd Schnaener, school disruptions for Wanda Ruth Smith, and routine church and Woman's Relief corps activities round out the week. Regular Woman's Relief corps meeting set for Saturday at 2 20 with cushions for the quilt and initiation noted.
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