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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1922
Page
8
Local notices report: high school game at 7:30 p m and events in Washington include shopping visits by several residents. water mains will be shut Sunday for paving changes from 8 a m to 5 p m. various residents travel and visit relatives in nearby towns.
Local shop Dean's offers fresh strawberry sundaes and brick ice cream varieties. Notes list many patrons visiting Washington and surrounding towns, along with several social visits and a serious accident involving a five year old, plus a water main shutoff notice and community notices.
A reflective piece warns that two simple words have ruined friendships, split families, and harmed many, urging readers to think before speaking and to avoid phrases like They are. They say. Exchange.
In a Chicago Journal snippet a pupil recalls whispering to a classmate and being summoned by the principal who directs three students to front seats. The principal clarifies, I didn't enter you.
A momentary success is noted in the congregational calendar as the minister publishes a Boliloquy from the Christian Register about a child too small to buy various items. The verse ends with the child being seen as “some money” when attending church.
The piece notes that the smallest visible items to the eye are stars, as Divers stated. Stars appear as tiny disks only due to irradiation, while their true angular diameter is effectively zero given vast distances.
A young man told Wendell Phillips that heroism would have mattered in his day. Phillips replied that living in time and God’s time sets the measure, and those unable to be heroic then could still be heroic now.
A historical column recounts two legends about tobacco’s origin. One tale says Adam grew bored with Eve and asked God for consolation, who sent tobacco. The other claims Eve prayed for distraction from Adam and tobacco was the heavenly gift.
Jerome argues that people are ruled by their appetites urging vigilance over diet. He contends virtue and contentment follow from disciplined eating, making one a good citizen husband and father and a noble pious man.
The Old Man Doodle voices a view that reputation for probity matters less today. He notes rising tolerance for self confessed crooks and cites chatter about technical acquittals.
The speaker urges immediate action by cutting out things you know you ought to, promising improved well being from the feet to the head. It presents a bold, self help tone and an insistence on practical change rather than guidance.
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