County Road Bond Issues Sweep Iowa Counties Propose Bonds
Readers learn 96 of 99 Iowa counties either have bonds or plan votes for road improvements. State funds from auto and gas taxes plus federal aid will service bonds with a 5 mill levy unlikely to be raised. Washington County stands to receive at least 140000 annually from the primary road fund.
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Washington County
Iowa
State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Board of Supervisors
State of
Daily Word Lesson Petulance in English Usage
A brief note promotes a daily vocabulary word focusing on PETULANCE meaning fretfulness and ill humor. It gives examples such as the child’s petulance due to illness and emphasizes correct usage and pronunciation ideas.
Iowa primary road fund totals rise with legislature action
The legislature forecasts about 2.5 million more, bringing the annual Iowa primary road fund to at least 16.875 million. Washington County would receive around 1.706 thousand, with a conservative local share of 148 thousand to 600 dollars, enabling bond interest, maintenance, and debt payoff.
Foreign policy clashes and propaganda warnings
A Saturday Evening Post analysis denounces movements backed by minority groups pushing overseas withdraws and internationalism. It warns against abandoning citizens, demobilizing defenses, and opening the U S to international manipulation while labeling some advocates as ignorant or Moscow influenced.
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America
United States
Mexico
Philippines
Nicaragua
Panama Canal
China
Russia
Europe
Moscow
Saturday Evening Post
Schools on wheels educate northern Ontario settlers
Rail way coaches used as classrooms by the Ontario Department of Education and the Canadian Pacific Railway travel to four or five settlements monthly. The mobile school offers English literacy, basic arithmetic, and social activity with a library and phonograph, aiding mixed French, Romanian, Italian, and Indian communities near lumber camps.
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Ontario
Ontario Department of Education
Canadian Pacific Railway
Heroic Kissinger's Sacrifice Touched by Time
Private John R. Kissinger volunteered in Cuba to test yellow fever transmission with Dr. Walter Reed. The sacrifice left him crippled and destitute after 27 years in a wheelchair. His wife is ill while his pension remains meager. Last year only two yellow fever cases were reported in the Americas.
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Quemados
Cuba
John R. Kissinger
United States Army
Walter Reed
United States
Reed
Kissinger
Mr. Kissinger
By The Way in a Shenandoah Minute
A mix of local column snippets notes sun breaking through Memorial Day services and light satire. It recalls All fools day origins and recalls a humorous plugger figure with a steady toilsome rhythm. Annabelle Jones visits a Birmingham lawyer seeking breach of promise with worn sofa pillows and a lamp that won’t light.
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Annnabelle Jones
Birmingham
Rastus Brown
Rastus
Annabelle
Kilowatt Servant and Witty Housekeeper Jokes
Comic clippings describe Kilowatt as tireless and efficient washing clothes sweeping floors cooking meals and performing chores for a penny or two. A joke about a father fearing daughters suitors and a mother worrying about the reverse. A classroom quip questions two percent interest with a smart but uninterested student. An old rag discusses a man working while his wife sews.
Wes Ches Tells The Latest On The Jews
Mose Cohen tells Jacob Levy to observe sackcloth and ashes next Chewsday to mourn Jerusalem’s destruction by the Romans. Levy questions the need, noting no houses in town. The exchange reflects a satirical dialogue from a traveler’s anecdote.
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Wes’ Ches
Mose Cohen
Jacob Levy
Moses
Levy
Jerusalem
Damaged OCR Humor Sketches and Grocery Banter
The fragmentary clipping shows comic quick dialogue with a drunken man attacked by a thug and a wife detecting cloves, plus a butcher grocer exchange about a pound of butter weighing short and a prior order of chops. The tone mimics late newspaper comic bits and humorous street chatter.
Tillie the Totler to Be Shown at Fox Theatre
The comedy Tillie the Toller based on Russ Westover’s strip comes to the Fox Theatre Wednesday and Thursday with Marion Davies in the lead. Hobart Henley directs this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature. cast includes Matt Moore, Harry Crocker, George Fawcett, George K. Arthur, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark, Claire McDowell. Davies debuts as a pure comedienne in a fast moving romance filled with humor and pathos.
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Tillie the Toller
Russ Westover
Marion Davies
Fox Theatre
Hobart Henley
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Matt Moore
Harry Crocker
George Fawcett
George K. Arthur
Bert Roach
Estelle Clark
Claire McDowell
Miss Davies
Tillie
Will
Proved by Temptation Ward Beecher Quote
A fragmentary quote attributes to Ward Beecher that temptations reveal personal character and inner nature, suggesting self-knowledge through desire and impulse. The line emphasizes introspection through temptation as a measure of identity and moral traits.
Carved prow figures on historic warships highlighted
The article recalls ornate figureheads from old warships, noting the Prince Royal launched in 1608 and bearing a grand carving of James I's ill fated son on horseback on its bow.
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James I
Notable Roles in an Emperor's Household
The emperor's household lists numerous members including aides equerries gentlemen in waiting chamberlain herald master of the hunt cup bearer master of ceremonies manager of the royal theater master of the horse chef gentleman of the bed chamber pages and superintendents of pages.
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the Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
Elder, Shannon & CO
Bruce Cowden
Publishers News
East Main Street
Washington
United Press
Jehovah
Heros
Chicago News
J. H. Laughead
Post Office
Joel
Flowra Southern
Abie
Artif Dankwardt
Chapeaux
Tve
CAL
Donny
Tillie the Totler
Ward Beecher
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