Safety Week urges vigilance for drivers and pedestrians
The article promotes Safety Week focusing on road user behavior amid growing traffic. It cites low railway fatalities and rising street accidents, urging drivers to be careful, pedestrians to stay alert, and to use proper hand signals and safe passing practices. It emphasizes actions like letting faster cars pass, avoiding speed obsession, smiling, and pulling right when hailed.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Safe Bud contemplates future trouble locating birth apartment
ABE MARTIN remarks that finding the exact apartment where a great man was born will be increasingly troublesome. He notes his sister-in-law’s visit and jokes about upcoming challenges in identifying the precise birthplace.
Imaginary Ills and Pink McGill in Rippling Rhymes
Walt Mason lampoons Pink McGill who laments imagined illnesses. The speaker suggests McGill could regain vigor if he stopped fretting and relying on remedies, praising his lore and storytelling yet noting his constant moaning and bottle habit.
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Pink McGill
West Door
Dr. Fantod
Dreamin of fishin and old rural notes
A collage of verse and prose snapshots: a fishing longing in dialect about rivers and suns, a car carburetor wish, a nostalgic 1922 graduate nod, and a military rifle care line, all echoing rural Americana and wartime era tones.
Mamma's Little Girl Clarifies Negotiations
Widmer sought identity and received the reply I am Mamma's little girl. The exchange clarified who was present and allowed negotiations to proceed. The quip about the lightning bug noted its brilliance but lack of mind, wandering with a headlight on.
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Widmer
Mamma
Pete Widmer
The Lion Tamer Gladys and Muriel Quips
A humorous exchange features Gladys the lion tamer asking Muriel about marriage and Muriel replying she will tame her husband herself. The strip also mocks pseudo Darwinian pride with Bryan’s quip about ancestry and honesty.
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Gladys
Muriel
Safety Week Urges Caution on Roads and Children
A Cedar Rapids editorial urges traffic caution and signal use as essential to road safety. It stresses pedestrians stay on paths, drivers slow near crossings, and brakes are checked. It mourns a mother who killed her 18 month old child, calling it a tragedy and urging constant safety awareness.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Earth
Readiness and the art of decisive preparation
A quote on readiness explains that true preparation means cutting knots and focusing on essentials. It emphasizes the ability to disengage the nonessential, simplify duties, and start when needed.
Beveridge Stands Firm for Republican Unity in Indiana
Albert Beveridge declares he is the choice of Indiana Republican voters and will support the administration. He opposes cliques and says the Indiana race was a state matter, not an anti Harding administration signal. The piece notes Senator New shares administration support, framing the contest as a local clash with national implications.
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Albert J. Beveridge
Senator New
Indiana
Mr. Beveridge
Harding
Beveridge
Fr. Dodge Messenger
Local philanthropist downplays five thousand gift at Rotary
F. L. Wilson raised five thousand dollars for the Y M C A at yesterday's Rotary gathering but today says the amount was modest and that any person in his seat would have given ten thousand. Electricians are dismantling the scene today.
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F. L. Wilson
Rotary Club
Mushroom hunting system claims and local musings
A town man touts a new mushroom hunting method claiming long training and a keen nose while refusing to share details. He tested it near Fairfield in Jefferson County with apparent success and may publish the recipe after further trials. Remarks on aging and shifting political corruption contrast with light local chatter and a Burlington depot worker complains about his car and a misadjusted carburetor.
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Jefferson County
Fairfield
Burlington
Mother's Day Letters and Local Notices Blend Humor and Hopes
A local feature mixes light humor with civic notes. A Jewish man in a garage questions a no smoking sign as the gag line, while a Mother’s Day letter aims to make mothers smile. The page includes a brief political notice about Brighton resident G. Humston seeking Republican support for the Board of Supervisors in the upcoming June primaries.
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Iley
Prevaricator's Club Seeks First Member in Fish Tale
Mr Hanrahan, head of the Journal's Duplex press, makes the club's first membership bid with a fish story. He recounts fishing on Main Creek where he planned two lines but only managed one as the first line kept him busy.
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Hanrahan
Journal
Duplex Press
Main Creek
Tragedy Ends Youthful Love Told by Child Narrator
A Chicago Journal diary entry recalls a childhood romance when a young girl received a ring from a boy named Johnny. His mother discovers the ring, prompting a decisive exchange that ends the first love affair.
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Johnny
Chicago Journal
Political Advertisement for Washinton County Supervisor
Candidate announces intention to run for Supervisor of Wash ington county with term starting January 1923. Seeks Republican voter support at the June primary.
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Washington County
Plato’s Tribute to Music Morals and Harmony
Plato writes that music is a moral law granting a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, and life to all. It gives order and harmony, leads to goodness and beauty, and eternal form through its invisible yet dazzling influence.
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Plato
Griffith Declares Candidacy for County Auditor
A. L. Griffith states he will run in the June Republican primaries for county auditor to succeed himself. He pledges faithful devotion to official duties and cites experience as qualifying for needed county service.
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A. L. Griffith
Local Train Schedules Include Pass and Freight Runs
Local passenger service No 429 operates daily except Sunday. Local freight trains Nos 87 and 88 run on specified days with 88 heading east on Monday Wednesday and Friday while 87 runs west on Tuesday and Saturday. H W RU
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H.W. RU
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Washington
East Main Street
Mutual
Abe Martin
Walt Mason
Fishin
Lion Tamer
Bryan
Llenri Mrederie Amiel
Veer Beveridge
Ford
Lou
Adam
G. €. Humston
Brighton
Board of Supervisors
Mr. Humston
Missouri
Prevaricator’s Club
Kelloggs
Kellogg’s
Kellogg's
W. K. Kellogg
Shanedleys
GN Abc
Physicians and Surgeons
D. W. Stombaughi
410 Res
A. John Droz
J. FE. Edgington, M. D
F. & M. Bank
R. W. Gregg
Orfier
T. A. Michels
Washington, Iowa
Morrison & Morrison
Irvin
Huston
Southwest Corner Square
Farmers’ Union
Washington, IA
Res
S. H. Bateman
M. D. Blair
Brookhart Bros. Law
Opera House
Mutual Phone
Cc. J. Wilson
C. Wilson
Wilson & Wilson
Opposite Journal
J. D. Dayton
Westchester, Iowa
O. F. Boller
D. D
S. Dentist
City
W. Washington
Lwa
Anne FE Eaeows
Eicher, Livingston & Eicher: Law
Abstract Department
Austin Sutherland Auctioneer
R. R
RL & PB
Golden State
Westboun
Express
Ip Atrives
Trives
Iserl
O. B
E Z.c. MW
Cc. M
Baeme
Lim
Nursday Lay
D F John P
Washington Lodge
A. P
A. M
H. T. Carris
W. M
Arthur Goodin
Cyrus Chapter
W. C. Beil
H. P. Arthur Goodin
Zeredatha Council
S. M
Belva Carris
Myrtle Speer
Damascus Shrine
W. S. of J
Katheryne H. Beatty
Susie B. Edgington
Amos Chapter de Molay
Ira Jones
G.C
Frank Langworthy
Loyal Order of Moose
Moose Hall
I. B. Mitchell
Elmer McFadden
1. O. O. F.—Covenant Lodge
North
Iowa Ave
W. F. Murdock
Noble Grand
Russell Goodin
Brighton Encampment N
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