Washington county road program aims for prompt, costed improvements
The board of supervisors and state highway commission back a $1,000,000 bond plan and $400,000 allotment to build primary roads without extra tax burden. Funds for primary and secondary roads stay separate, with annual revenue from gas tax, automobile tax, and federal aid covering interest, maintenance, and a sinking fund. The piece urges public questions to be directed to the board, engineer, or newspaper for clarity, and asserts broad support for completing a practical, economical road system.
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Board of Supervisors
State Subway Engineers and Commission
Washington County
Highway Commission
State Commission
Iowa
Down
County Board of Supervisors
State Highway Commission
Daily Lessons in English Word Usage and Pronunciations
A compact note on improving vocabulary with a focus on commonly misused terms and pronunciation tips. It highlights avoiding unnecessary prepositions, notes on misspellings such as ewe and ie, and urges learning one word daily, showing an example sentence using sullenly with a negative tone.
Mary Davis Reed Poem About Home and Scenic Peace
A reflective verse by Mary Davis Reed celebrates simple home life and familiar landscapes. It contrasts distant places with the comfort of a cottage, blue skies, drifting clouds, and a cheerful brook near home. The speaker prefers local beauty to travel and grand vistas.
Darwin Hum Bug Tale Shows Crafty Field Study
In a country home Darwin is asked to identify a mixed body bug made from a centipede butterfly grasshopper and beetle parts. He questions if it hummed, and concludes it is a humbug, illustrating skepticism about fake science.
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Darwin
Mr. Darwin
Midwest Review
Quiet Life Told In Simple Rural Verse
Narrative sketches a woman content with home and routine. The poem contrasts a calm country life with the universal experiences of love, departure, birth, and death. A brief humorous fable about a fly and a flea ends the piece.
Notable Local Quips on Roads and Roads Funding
The piece rails at road funding debates while noting people pay for hard roads yet lack them. It highlights Washington County interests in northern Iowa roads and mocks pothole filled progress. A butcher shop scene adds a biting, dark humor ending with a violent joke about customers.
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Washington County
Iowa
A Spring Lyric in Weathering Rain
A playful verse urges readers to greet spring showers with slicker and rubbers on. The rhyme echoes seasonal mood and lighthearted weather anticipation.
City Man Buries Onion Spits Weary Farmer Title
A city worker buries a quarter and muses on farming life. The odd act highlights a self styled farmer embracing rural imagery amid urban duties.
Whispered Secret Sparks Tangled Confession
Dialogue exchange reveals a tangled secret only spoken in confidence. The speaker admits attempts to hide the information while another party claims to have warned against sharing it with a third person. The exchange highlights miscommunication and unintended disclosure.
Haynes appointed acting Commissioner signals prohibition push
The Dearborn Independent notes Roy A. Haynes becomes acting Commissioner and shifts focus from forecasting to enforcing prohibition. It contrasts his stance with General Andrews, implying a rebellion against prior delays and aligning Coolidge with dry advocates. The piece argues action, not promises, is now demanded.
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Roy A. Haynes
Haynes
Lincoln C. Andrews
Delphi
Andrews Gend
Mellon
Coolidge
Andrews
General Andrews
America
Dearborn
Meant Nothing Emmanuel Mule Tender on Crutches
A mule tender named Emmanuel arrives on crutches claiming skill but jokes that a new mule failed to recognize his vocation. In a separate note, a boy recounts a fight with his sister while visiting his aunt, revealing their father was the one who whipped.
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Emmanuel
Nomad Ly May Kennedy Longs for Open Desert Skies
The speaker yearns to escape man made marvels and hear the night bird, scent the desert, and view unspoiled western skies. They seek pine roars and mountain horizons above dark blue waters, wishing to pitch a tent beneath God’s blue sky forever.
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Ly May Kennedy
Memories of Hard Times and Jokes from Old Columns
A collected folklore piece shows light jokes and social quips about manners and habits. It includes a western youth’s dance ticket misadventure, flapper banter, golf versus church, a bride’s sock anecdote, and a punchy line about a men only barber shop.
Angler’s Son Complains of Worm in Apple
A humorous dialogue has a boy discovering a worm in his apple and urging his father to swallow it with water. The father dismisses the boy’s complaint and tells him to wash it down, prompting a gruff exchange about walking and legs.
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Angler
Plumber Apprenticeship and Domestic Dialogues in London Opinion
A London Opinion discusses a father seeking an apprenticeship for his son with a plumber and the plumber’s acceptance based on qualifications. The passage shifts to Miranda’s engagement, with references to money, social status, and a playful exchange between Elsie and an aunt. A dramatic courtroom line follows about alimony and work struggles, ending with a colorful reply about not finding dice.
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London
If I act toward my wife as in courtship days
A man recalls how his feelings for his wife mirror those he had when he first fell in love. He describes lingering by the fence and watching her shadow on the curtain, and says he still acts the same when he gets home.
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Pershing
France
Ezekiel
Mother Wesley
Methodist Church
Mother Lincoln
Ace
Luther
Scudder
India
Edison
Joseph Baker
Egypt
Republic
Francis E. Clark
Webster
Dont Send Your Girl to College Song Satire
A verse urging girls to stay home from college warns against coeducation and modern ideas. It uses humor to mock women seeking education and imagines a girl using a pistol to rob a bank as a negatively framed outcome.
Express Roads Coming By DeBow Youxd
The article envisions future express highways separating slow vehicles from motor cars with overhead or underground crossings at higher speeds. Plans include multi-lane, one-way or double highways and several cities and states evaluating such projects. The good roads movement spurs hard-surface routes, with 200 foot highways already built or under way.
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America
How Much Do You Know U S Government Quiz
A government trivia piece asks questions about the Vice-President salary Supreme Court appointments presidential history and Congress. It lists ten questions with answers on the last page and appears as a humorous or educational prompt from a U S government source.
Mothers and Law Enforcement Duty in Society
A sermon urging mothers to take responsibility for child upbringing and moral education. It cites Christ, Proverbs, and historical figures to claim that mothers shape national character, stressing prayer, home worship, and education as pillars. It warns that societal health follows from wholesome homes and vigilant maternal influence.
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Lyman Abbott
Abbot
G. Campbell Morgan
Christ
Jesus
Flood Relief Granted by Kalona Masonic Lodge
Richmond Lodge No. 96 A F and A M of Kalona voted 100 for flood relief along the Mississippi river. Fifty dollars to the state Masonic fund and fifty dollars to local Red Cross chapters, aiding stricken sufferers through the disaster response.
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Kalona
Richmond Lodge
A. F
A. M
Mississippi River
Red Cross
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