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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1929
Page
4
Fragmentary notice quotes a verse urging repentance and keeping statutes for life in what appears to be a religious or moral exhortation. The readable text references turning from sins and living if one keeps commandments. No concrete names or dates beyond a March day are clear.
Fragmentary OCR notes reflect themes of grace and faith amid suffering, and political discussion on prohibition and harmony among communities. The text also touches on racial prejudice and urbanization, with scattered quotes and poems woven through a chaotic page.
A compact listing of common language pitfalls and tricky spellings. It highlights misused phrases, mispronunciations, and difficult words like BENIGHTILY and calaverous. The fragment also includes a quoted sentence about reading and past neglect.
A humorous note praises husbands who install screens promptly when asked and muses on a Scotch saying about helpful domestic allies. The fragment hints at home life and shared tasks with a playful tone.
A citizen ordered a dozen bottles of alleged liquor from a bootlegger. The bottles arrived and a chemist tested them, declaring them bad and unsafe. The recipient insisted on consuming one bottle, claiming his blind brother could handle it.
A fragmented OCR style note mixes winter woes in California with cultural snippets. It references a harsh season, odd aphorisms, and stray lines about people born during the week, plus scattered local anecdotes and a pharmacy dialogue snippet.
The speaker notes progress in gender roles as women step forward, while praising Herbert Hoover as an effective engineer and the Hoover administration taking shape with substantial groundwork already in place.
A teacher and pupil observe a man slip from a river bank into the water. The man cannot swim and cries for help as his wife runs to aid. A sharp student suggests the wife aims to draw his insurance money.
A garbled collection of dialogue and scenes features a swift kid at Burn Mawr and a judge, a wife’s breakfast, a farmer and sheep, a parlor chat, and quirky exchanges among siblings and suitors. The text strings together fragmented lines with varied characters and rustic humor.
Aurora reports that County Attorney George D. Calvary will ask Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom to oversee and possibly prosecute the case involving the De King family. Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith remains hospitalized with suspected blood poisoning after a shooting related to the De Kings.
Funeral services for Mrs Blizt Gentzler were held Wednesday afternoon at the Stephens funeral home with Rev JW Zerbe and Rev W B Rustam officiating. Burial was in Columbus City cemetery. Mrs Gentzler born January 1 and died Sunday night in Washington formerly Miss Eliza Buffington. Surviving are two daughters Mrs Utterback and Miss Kate Gentzler, a son Shant Gentzler, seven grandchildren, all of Columbus Junction.
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