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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1926
Page
4
A lightning storm damaged the Journal Linotype causing a current to ride into the machine and tear it to pieces. Surgeons replaced the damaged parts in a successful operation and by noon the plant was back in headway, though half a day was lost.
An observer notes Mussolini's plan to outlaw strikes and lockouts and have a ministry dictate pay and labor in Italy. The piece compares it to a failed South American experiment where workers resisted a high production scheme, warning that people may not accept forced labor and control. It questions whether the plan will succeed.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers Memorial Day excursion fares with a round trip at one fare plus 25 cents for stations east of the Missouri River where the one way fare is eight dollars or less. Tickets go on sale May 29 and 30 with a return limit June 1. Ask the ticket agent for details.
Girl Scouts postpones meeting to Saturday at 3 pm in the YMCA women’s room. The Nineteenth Century chair will meet Saturday at 2:30 pm with Mrs. Carl Roberts for officer elections. Patriotic organizations plan wreath making May 99 at 2 pm in the G A R Post room. Baptist choir meets Friday at 7:30 pm. West Chester Woman’s Christian Temperance Union meets Tuesday at 2 pm to study the Constitution with Mrs Brumback. The Up and Teleb will host a 6:30 pm dinner for husbands at Mrs Charles Sloat’s home.
The Priscilla club is entertained by Mrs. D. J. Ross and Mrs. John McLaughlin at a 1 o'clock luncheon on Tuesday June 3. The event takes place at Mrs. Ross's home on S. Iowa. Hostesses should notify if unable to attend.
Children eight years and under of the Methodist church and their mothers are invited to a missionary meeting at Ex Senator Brookhart's home this Thursday afternoon from 3 30 to 5 89.
Women’s Home Missionary Society will meet Saturday afternoon at 2 30 at the home of Mrs Ab Anderson Mrs F W Brookhart will lead the session.
Methodist Sunday school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 45 a m with themes on America and Providence. Dr Bowers to preach and patriotic music planned. High school baccalaureate at 7 30 p m in M E church with Dr Bowers delivering the address and mixed chorus directed by Miss Bertha Hay. Morning music includes Organ Prelude A Memory Nearing Anthem O Lord of Hosts Stalts Offertory Une Larme and The Messiah of Nations. Baccalaureate music features Madrigale by Simonetti.
The Saint Anne or Saint Sans program presents a mixed chorus led by Jesse J. Miller with Mary Hunter as organist. The event features Ave Maria and large works by Liszt and de Koven among other pieces.
The Advanced Shorthand class with teacher Miss Florence Bodman met for a morning meal in Sunset Park. Nine girls attended including Dorothy Clark Stella Cox Dorothy Evans Henrietta Evans Anna Knottnerus Hazel Payne Florence Rohrer Pansy Starr Louise Shafer and Helen Tucker.
John L Whitman, ousted as warden of Joliet and Stateville prisons on the Will county grand jury’s recommendation, calls for a public hearing and plans to approach Attorney Clarence Darrow to pursue a fair courtroom process.
A candidate seeks the Republican nomination for a second term on the Board of Supervisors for the term beginning January 1, 1928, subject to Republican voters. The piece includes a verse about an insurance man with humorous verse about life insurance and persuasion.
A light, humorous collection of quotes and snippets appears from a paper readers’ page. The piece salutes summer, offers a short verse, and includes playful anecdotes about palm readings and a comic exchange with Windy Wolf remarking on a courting child.
A farmer who hadn’t paid for a year meets an implement dealer. The salesman offers to meet him halfway and forget half the debt. The farmer agrees and the other half is forgiven.
No clear person event or organization present. The fragment reads as a string of life advice phrases suggesting balance between effort and restraint without identifying a concrete news item, location, or date. The text lacks actionable facts or named entities to summarize into a proper card.
A playful verse about beauty spots on the face and body and the desire to buy powder to enhance them. It notes spots on the cheek and knee and the appeal of adding more with cosmetics as part of a feigned rhythm of vanity.
A reader complains about line delays and space waste in the paper. They discuss a six month line break twice a year and mention a vacation, pay concerns, and aspirations to write for pay. The note references a Peeknik and a planned event after the first full moon following June 21.
A brief, stylized exchange describes coffee quality at a mission and a note about staying awake during a permon. Imagery includes a silver moon a pretty miss and a kiss, framing a nocturnal mood.
A reader vent testifies about everyday irritants from family behavior to traffic and misplaced words. She vents over chores, in-laws, a lazy husband, lost dictionaries, backseat driver scenes, and the difficulty of getting her son to practice music.
A reader notes the planned By-the-Way column did not appear in Thursday's Journal due to a linotype machine accident. The writer asks if others also missed the feature and seeks confirmation.
A candidate announces run for County Supervisor to begin January 1 1927. The plan rests with Republican voters in the June primaries.
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