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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1923
Page
8
L. A. Foltz of Quincy was a business visitor here yesterday. Dance at Lyons Open Air Hall tonight.
Local notes state Mrs H Pehler traveling to Ainsworth, Charles Stearns visiting town on business, and Mrs Dell Skinner visiting Ot t umwa friends. Entries mention sales in Washington, riding cultivators, flower orders, and Memorial Day preparations. Community announcements cover visits, transportation, shopping, and service ads across multiple residents and nearby towns.
Mrs Everett Huber and family from Wellman shopped in town while Des Moines residents Mrs Alvin Morrow and children visited J D Hayes. The Morrows and offspring stayed longer, joining Mr and Mrs RR Coulter’s guests. Dr and Mrs Dave McCartney hosted visitors from Des Moines for a Sunday visit with relatives.
Civil war veterans will gather in front of the courthouse Wednesday at 9 30 a m for a procession to the cemeteries.
Elevated lines were tied up for more than an hour by a fire near the Loop causing estimated damage of fifty thousand dollars to a six story building. One fireman was injured.
Police spread a net across Chicago's south side in the manhunt for John Whitfield alleged to have slain a Cleveland officer. A rooming house keeper reported Whitfield spent a day at her residence yesterday.
A reflection on how swagger leads to brief success but ends in ridicule, with many family records showing promising hopes that descend into disappointment and lowly status, forcing apologies in some cases.
A quondum owner writes to the Carl A firm of car manufacturers lamenting his wife left him with the car gone. He says he cannot get on without the car and questions why the makers should provide sympathy. The note hints at no practical help beyond moral support.
The Bureau of Fisheries states there is no reliable method to age a hard shell turtle. Scientists inspect shell plates under a microscope and count growth rings, similar to tree rings, noting scale expansion as the turtle grows.
The wolverine is described as the trapper’s worst foe, stalking tracks and raiding traps stealing prey and provisions. It visits camps, tears apart caught game, and carries off utensils and food, leaving destruction in its wake. Indians reportedly avoid giving chase.
A compact quotation from Dis raell about experience as the child of thought and action. It notes that learning people cannot come from books and emphasizes practical insight over theoretical study.
Quotation attributed to Emerson advising to write on the heart that each day is the best of the year and to recognize that no man truly learns unless he sees every day as Doomsday.
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