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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 17, 1927

Page

5

Flood Devastation Unfolds Along Bayou Des Gla sses

A coast guard view from Mansura Louisiana documents the destruction as the Bayou Des Glasses levee fails and the Mississippi breaches the floodplain. Refugees are ferried away by flotilla while homes, farms, and horses drift by under rising orange waters.

Bayou Des Glasses Coast Guard United States New Jersey Mansura Mississippi Moreauville Coast Guard Service Arkansas River

Are You An Economic Jaywalker

In this piece a cash only policy at J C Penney is praised to encourage thrift and sound financial choices. The text warns against credit and debt, urging readers to follow prudent spending and avoid extravagant purchases that lead to financial entanglement. The tone imitates a cautionary civic sermon about economic prudence.

J. C. Penney Company

Neilan Presents Wild Oats Lane at Fox Theater

Marshall Neilan describes Wild Oats Lane as life like, shooting two young lovers who could live anywhere. The film opens at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday with the couple first in Pennsylvania then in New York.

Viola Dana Gerald Beaumont George Broadhurst Bobby Agnew John P. MacSweeney George Barnum Scott Welch Jerry Miley Robert Brower Margaret Seddon Marshall Neilan Pennsylvania New York

Youthful Wail and Latin Roots Stir London Opinion

A juvenile correspondent quips that Romans should have kept their Latin roots to themselves when crediting turnips to Britain. The London Opinion remarks on getting good from evil and learning from wrongdoing, urging prudence in observing vice to profit from it.

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