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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1918
Page
4
The Journal urges all voters in Washington County to support attorney C. A. Dewey for judge in the upcoming nonpartisan primary. It lauds his long service, county roots, and endorsement by local lawyers, urging everyone to vote next Monday to place a worthy and diligent judge on the bench.
The term highbrow is not new to serious discourse as a 1720 Edinburgh volume “The Rules of Good Deportment” shows. It argues that high brow or proud behavior in gesture or speech is insufferable clownishness, illustrating early use by authors on deportment.
Don Esteban Verona guards a secret treasure hidden in a well on his Cuban estate. His wife Donna Isabel schemes to seize it, while Sebastian protects the cache and Evangelina bonds the twins. The tale spans romantic entanglements, insurrection, executions, exile, and filibuster plans in Cuba and New York with O’Reilly, Rosa, and Norine Evans as key players.
Norine Evans complains of famine in the camp while Branch, Reilly, and Judson discover scarce provisions. Major Ramos warned of a Cubtas famine as the group struggles to feed the field hospital crew and chase a promised meal.
Little Helen asks what her father does at work and when he says nothing she asks how he knows when he is finished, prompting a reflective moment about his office routine.
A Pullman porter asks to brush off a passenger at the next station. The passenger declines, saying he will step off when the train stops.
On the eighteenth hole of a final round, two bitter golf rivals are tied. A talkative veteran taunts Logan until Jones snaps a threat to crack him with a brassie, while Logan retorts that will cost a stroke.
A father laments his son’s impudence during holidays at home. The boy enters, mocks a past expulsion, and notes that “such things will run in a family” as they recall their shared youth. The anecdote appears in Chicago Daily News.
The poem argues that idle men should be forced to work, praising honest labor and condemning loafers who seek handouts. It calls for law enforcement to deter idleness and insists every person can earn food and shelter through productive toil.
The article notes Saint George's celebrated position in the Christian calendar arising from no merit of his own. It states he was born in Epiphania Cilicia and climbed the ranks by servile flattery. It adds Gibson's claim that a bacon supply contract for the army made him wealthy until his dishonest practices were exposed and he fled the country.
The Hungarians or Magyars form a Finno Ugric branch with Finns as closest kin. They have lived in Hungary for over 1,000 years and originated from the western Siberian plains near the end of the eighth century.
The Egyptian and Roman chariots moved troops to battle and formed a shielded retreat for marksmen. The curved front acted as a shield long before iron tanks appeared, serving as improvised fortifications in the clash of infantry.
Russian sturgeon fisheries yield large catches during upstream migration with more than 10,000 fish at some stations. Flesh is consumed fresh or preserved smoked or salted. Eggs are harvested in quantity and made into caviare.
The author imagines a future storage battery that could collect free lightning from summer storms and store heat to power a town through winter. This would remove fear from the great dragons of nature and tame them for human use.
A brief exchange jokes about crowding and appearance. The dialogue contrasts dieting goals with not wanting crowded trains, implying crowded cars affect seating and standing room.
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