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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1921
Page
4
The state fair plans a peak season with a record 142500 dollars in premiums across divisions including horses speed events cattle swine sheep poultry agriculture and youth contests. Advocates say the funds support self sustaining entertainment and that humans remain the beneficiaries of the fair.
Proper dental care helps prevent many illnesses among children. Studies in large schools and homes show dental clinics in schools reduce infections like diphtheria scarlet fever mumps and pneumonia. In one eastern city diphtheria fell about ten percent after clinics opened. In a Boston orphanage those diseases were nearly eliminated.
A poem by Walt Mason laments unacknowledged booster efforts for Warren G. Harding. The speaker recalls predicting Harding’s rise from a Podunk Banner column cue and criticizes the president for ignoring telegrams and local praise.
The report notes prior to a new dental program 31 percent of orphanage residents suffered yearly illnesses from tooth decay and related infections. Decaying teeth often spread pus toxins, weakening children and harming school performance. The text urges vigilance over dental care.
The U S Public Health Service urges parents to provide proper sleep for children. It lists hours by age from four to fourteen and warns that insufficient sleep harms learning and behavior while adequate rest supports growth and daily life.
The piece traces Colorado from early exploration and Spanish claims through the Louisiana Purchase to statehood in 1876. It notes Pike and Long expeditions, Pikes Peak naming, Dry Creek gold discovery in 1858, Denver’s rapid growth, and the state’s 103,048 square miles with six electoral votes. Colorado is called the Centennial State for its 100th year since independence.
The passage advises that a difficult habit can be cured with steady effort. It encourages persistence and continuous work until success is achieved, underscoring self-discipline as the route to lasting change.
The Great Commission Prayer League urges earnest prayers for revival to renew the church and society. It argues the nation needs a spiritual awakening, not social reform, quoting biblical calls to be born again and to seek God's power for salvation and moral renewal.
The article notes over four hundred cocoons with most valueless commercially, but five kinds are domesticated and several others yield cocoons gathered for silk production. It highlights variety and collecting practices in sericulture.
A boy and girl awaken in a forest and meet Mrs Wood Elf and a lively guest named Mrs Get the Most Out of Life. They share breakfast by a brook fire, discuss starting their adventures, and consider the guest joining their journey with optimism about making the most of life.
Cartoons Magazine features a wry exchange where a father explains an egotist as a person stuck on his own viewpoint, as narrated by a son. The humor turns on mispronunciation and a playful misunderstanding of ego. The strip comments on self importance with light satire.
The Department of Labor shows unemployment rose 0.4 percent in April with 7,037 fewer workers across 1,424 firms in 65 centers. Losses in iron and steel contrasted with gains in autos and several recovering industries. City shifts favored Denver and Detroit in percentages. Pittsburgh and Youngstown led declines.
An old advertisement offers $1000 for a case of beef by Hall H Dicine claiming Hall's Catarrh Medicine works internally and via bloodstream. The notice cites 40 years of sale, testimonials, and F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ontario as the contact.
Heavy enrollments are expected in the special course for consolidated school superintendents and teachers at the Iowa State Teachers College this June. Instructors from rural schools are enrolling and inquiries continue as salaries in large districts lure top graduates. Prof Macy Campbell says the college is best fitted to train and place teachers for consolidated schools.
A partial timetable lists multiple trains with numbers and routes. It shows No 3 and No 29 lines, several local passes, freight and express services, and arrival and departure times including 9:27 a.m. for No 3 and 6:10 p.m. for No 9 in Washington.
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