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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1925
Page
4
The piece contrasts a $5000 reward for a poisoned race horse with a $250 kidnapper reward for an eleven year old girl. It argues that society values girls over horses and asserts that a girl’s life is worth far more than a horse, urging readers to see human worth ahead of property.
A communication discusses Washington and its location advantages, highlighting reasons that make the city a favorable site for consideration. The text implies strategic benefits and potential implications for decision making.
ABE MARTIN notes President Coolidge probably won’t buy fire crackers for the Fourth of July. He remarks on the fine line between hustling loafers and industrious citizens.
A dense list of crossword clues and fragment notes includes items like small instrument to open locks, To damage, Baking dish, To rap lightly, and many numbered entries. The text interleaves toward end with scattered words and phrases such as Meadow grass, Wading bird, Hebrew word for God, Propeller of a boat, What the boss said when asked for a raise, Blackened, Vessel used for Pucharist, Young goat, Form of you, and others.
The peddling stranger visits a town and hawks trinkets as local citizens defend Brick & Brown. The poem praises civic projects like schools churches and parks funded by taxes and warns against cheap wares undermining community progress.
A 1925 letter to the Journal argues Washington Iowa should advertise its home-town assets to attract industry. It cites four rail directions, nearby depots, improving switching facilities, fair labor, and local producers, urging youth to stay and factories to locate nearby.
A Mother Hen patiently waits as twelve yellow chicks emerge from their shells. She cares for them in the barnyard, guiding them to safety and offering gentle reassurance with each “peep.” The chicks respond with delight as they explore under her watchful wing.
The Journal notes thirteen boys took a ride in an airplane and recalls a quirky request for a stray stomach. It describes the boys’ bird’s eye view of Ainsworth, praises air travel, and includes humorous exchanges about costumes, dinner plans, and community gossip.
A girl named Mary visits her aunt and, upon departure, replies there isn’t any more of her, prompting a gentle moment about her staying longer. The brief anecdote captures a child’s playful simplicity and aunt’s warm invitation.
A lady visitor asks what the convict is jailed for and learns borrowing money. A professor asks for the next date after Hastings. Pat joins the police, questions a countryman with suitcases of sugar, and humorously asks what is in the van, whipping a reply about cocoa.
A manager shouts for an Egypt agency after watching a movie about pyramids and hieroglyphics. The lighthearted exchange markets demand for the "world's greatest insect exterminating powder" and mocks travel clichés. Put On Your Posies If you are liking me a heap.
A mosaic of verses and vignettes features lines on earthly greed love and pain alongside a juror scene in court. A vivid sketch notes a flirtatious visitor to a vicarage where the vicar is away and his daughter greets a morally judged guest. The piece blends satire and social observation in a London literary voice.
A distressed boy approached his mother crying and confessed something heartfelt, saying Oh, Mama, in a tense family moment captured in the page.
A Perthshire Advertiser joke snippet details a bride asking for eggplants to plant eggs, the grocer mishears, and a man jokes about a wife as the one perfect thing a man cannot have. The humor pivots on domestic roles and phrasings.
A prisoner with a long record asks for a one week postponement claiming his lawyer is unavailable. The judge challenges the defendant noting he was caught with his hand in another man’s pocket, prompting the prisoner to insist that is exactly what his defense should address.
Ikey Ikenstein accidentally drove his car into the parade of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Authorities say the incident occurred recently as bystanders watched in shock. Ikenstein would have been thirty eight years old next October.
The great bronze Buddha of Kamakura survived Japan’s earthquakes and was set to its present place in 1252. It has endured through many cataclysms unscathed.
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