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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1929
Page
4
A fragmented meditation contrasts ruined light and lost warmth with rising tech promises. The piece muses on speed, trains, and new communications, warning that progress can turn perilous if mishandled. It alludes to radio telephone ideas and a hopeful but cautious view of modern invention.
Six men visit the elephant. Each touches a different part and offers a differing description. Their perspectives reveal how limited observation shapes understanding.
The 77 year old California author Rosa Hartwick Thorpe, once Rosa Hartwick Thornton, recalls writing Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight at Hillsdale Michigan in 1865 as a 13 year old in a red schoolhouse. Her poem inspired elocutionists and hardened the public memory of Bessie and the gallows across towns and schools for decades.
A fragment from a famous poem recounts how six men in Indostan guess different parts of a curious beast. Each man asserts what the creature resembles from a knee ear rope tail and more, sparking humorous dispute and moral that none sees whole truth.
The 1849 advertisement from J L Masson of Andover Kentucky states a March 1 sale of personal property before he leaves for Oregon Territory by wagon. Items include two milch cows, a mare and colt, oxen, plows, fencing, soap kettle, spinning wheels, loom, poles and hoops, barrels and whiskey.
Lists of patriotic organizations and members responsible for decorating soldiers graves on Memorial Day are announced. Volunteers from American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Girl Scouts and other groups are named for Woodlawn and Grove cemeteries with many individuals listed. The notice includes a later sale of goods and enslaved people is shown as historical text and not condoned.
Readable notices show a meeting at the home of CW on Washington Street Friday at 7 20 PM with all welcome. A second note mentions The Walnut of Hos elu meeting at M Mickey s home on Saturday afternoon May 1 with call for vegetables.
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