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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1923
Page
6
Mrs Penfield learns of a raid on the Bosley household and a scheme to recover stolen funds. Jerry Winston helps authorities, while neighbors discuss the affair and a payday offer from Mr Crashaw for Penfield’s future. Penfield contemplates a safer life and a possible move for the family.
In a vivid domestic scene Mrs Penfield discusses sudden income with Mrs Wopple and others. The two women debate social shifts as Penfield notes she can provide more rooms for her children and improved comforts. A laundry worker’s claim and a plan for a move weigh on the dialogue.
Mrs Penfield plans to buy furniture on installments as she transforms her home and helps neighbors. A letter from Annette Weatherstone offers to send written items gathered during refurnishing to aid forlorn children. Weatherstone asks Penfield to share similar aid when possible and notes its cooperative spirit.
Mrs Sevcik of Chicago invites women suffering from backache irregularities and weakness to write for advice after benefiting from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She cites long relief and urges others to consult the remedy, noting decades of similar reports.
Memorial Day observances spread across Iowa with parades, floral tributes, memorial arches, and services led by Grand Army of the Republic veterans. Des Moines ceremonies include a procession to Woodland Cemetery and salutes by World War veterans. In Marshalltown the Iowa Soldiers Home grounds host the commemorations with a dedicatory arch and speeches by Mrs. Lillian Clark Cary and Rev. H. O. Pratt.
Muscatine Iowa will mark Memorial Day with a public ceremony tomorrow after a three year lapse. Veterans of three wars join patriotic groups and schoolchildren in a parade ending at the river front for services. A memorial service will also be held on the courthouse lawn.
County Attorney Harry Wifvat will deliver the Memorial day address in Perry tomorrow. All business houses will shut in the afternoon for patriotic services and cemetery decorations as local groups honor veterans at nearby gravesites.
Cedar Rapids will launch a Memorial barge manned by a firing squad and bugler from the Navy and Marine club. The barge will reach the Second Avenue bridge to join former service men in a patriotic service. Ernest R. Moore state commander of Spanish American War Veterans and former Iowa lieutenant governor will speak. Hanford Post and Washington High School bands provide music.
Memorial Day ceremonies in Keokuk center at the National Cemetery with Judge John J Craig delivering the address. A sunset riverfront service features barges of flowers cast off by patriotic groups as a parade of service men and Boy Scouts opens the day.
Davenport announces the largest military parade to date as World War veterans, National Guard units, ROTC cadets, and troops from Rock Island Arsenal join civil war veterans in a morning services at the soldiers monument and an afternoon service at the National Cemetery across the river.
Services are planned at Baylis Park with address to be supplied by General Matt A Tinley. After the exercises, all in the park will face east for a two minute silent tribute followed by taps.
Boone Iowa May 29 A monument honoring Boone s heroes of all wars will be unveiled tomorrow by the Women s Relief Corps The ceremony led by Hon S R Dyer civil war veteran includes a parade by veterans and auxiliary orders Judge William Mc Henry of Des Moines will be the chief speaker
Judge Truman L. Stevens of the Iowa supreme court will deliver the Memorial address in Iowa City tomorrow. Local veterans groups will participate in a parade through the business district and graves will be decorated in nearby cemeteries.
Burlington observes Memorial Day with a larger event as the National Guard Amer ican Legion and Grand Army men lead a parade joining multiple organizations for ceremonies. The program aims to mark the day on a grander scale than before.
Waterloo memorial services will be held tomorrow for 625 soldiers and sailors buried locally. The program includes dedication of new chimes at the First Presbyterian Church and a patriotic bells concert near the downtown park where the services occur.
Thirty memory trees will be dedicated in Atlantic Iowa tomorrow to honor Cass county men who died in World War I. Winifred F Robb former Polk county clergyman sheriff will be chief speaker at the memorial services. Parents of the soldiers and organized pilgrimages to cemeteries will complete the program.
Council Bluffs Iowa May 29 a parade of five divisions will precede Memorial Day exercises here in town streets with local organizations and civic groups participating in the parade and program.
Ames Iowa May 29 Townspeople and the student body of Iowa State College will unite tomorrow in Memorial day observance. College musical bodies will sing sacred airs and the college R O T C will join the G A R and American Legion in a parade.
American Legion members from across the sixth congressional district join Oskaloosa for Memorial Day observances. Church services graveside decorations and a service members parade are planned.
In remote parts of England cottages with sloping walls remain. Built slightly out of true due to a superstition that a perfectly square house would collapse.
Ainsworth is represented by Neal Sands captain and Earle Davis who scored ten points at the invitation track and field meet hosted by State Teachers College Cedar Falls. Sands won the 120 yards high hurdles in 17.15 seconds, Davis captured both prelims and finals in the running broad jump with 19 feet 3 inches and 19 feet 10 inches. Mullin cleared 10 feet 11 inches in pole vault, Chesapeake Rice of Washington set a state high school pole vault record at 11 feet 9 3 8 inches. Weather aided strong performances across events.
The passage notes that natural fearlessness is pleasant but not essential. A person without that natural edge can still perform duties with equal efficiency if they choose, praising the steady duty of others and the value of courage. Roosevelt emphasizes choice and duty over innate fearlessness.
The Eskimo deem a man meddling in or doing women’s work scandalous. A Hindu wife will not eat with her husband, and touching his food would render it unusable for her.
A satirical verse proposes curing marriage woes with pride dissolving in common sense followed by a kiss and wholesome compliments. It suggests repentance as needed, attributed to Tierson Evening Transcript.
A 2100 B C clay tablet offers a revised Eden tale stating Adam was expelled not as punishment but to prevent immortality. The find reshapes early myth lore with a protective motive tied to human mortality.
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