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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1920
Page
4
A collage of jokes and quips from stage and press notes. An Irish stage manager and a frothy line about a cow’s milk sparks. a joke about an insurance policy and cremation follows. a World column mocks a stag prom, and a New York Globe quip ends with tax strike pressure on lunatic asylums.
The city council of Washington Iowa enacts amending Ordinance No 57 to establish fire limits. Boundaries extend east to Second Avenue south Jefferson Street north Chicago Rock Island and Pacific right of way west to Avenue B. Ordinance takes effect after passage and publication. Mayor J E Bovee and City Clerk S J Kellogg attest.
A collage of brief vignettes contrasts private rail ownership with public control in spring travel. Stories recount mill workers and foremen, jokes about bachelors, a white‑led negro regiment respecting rank, and a lighthearted tale of officers misidentifying cargo as a goat on a ship.
Poem urges ending wartime drives for money and pressuring others to give. Speaker resists being bossed, pledging support for living and the dead, while calling for individuals to aid quietly through their own labor.
A Dubuque firm shipped a tobacco load to Maquoketa with fourteen consignments to local merchants. Delivery cost at Maquoketa was 70 cents for the partial load, about 6 cents per package, cheaper than parcel post or express and offering immediate delivery with no freight delays. Maquoketa merchants source most goods from wholesale houses within a sixty mile radius.
The passage notes miles of travel hint at a transformative journey in transportation for the area, with experts suggesting the trip marks a new era for local transit development.
Egnat Tosoff, Waterloo restaurant proprietor, was arrested last summer on liquor charges. A federal judgment of 4,387.51 was entered but unpaid. officials filed suit in district court to protect future government interests. This marks the first such action in Black Hawk County.
The Okoboji Inn at Lake Okoboji will be rebuilt with new golf and tennis facilities and other features to become a top midwest resort. Judge J L Kennedy heads a syndicate planning a 1 million dollar company. Over 200 subscribers have already joined, with stock solicited statewide. Improvements start after the resort is reorganized.
In late summer 1921 a season ends as plans outline a fire-proof building housing several hundred rooms. The 160 acre tract between the lake shore and Spirit Lake road will host golf courses and parks. A New York inventor merges an incandescent lamp with a hair dryer to dry hair with a light bath.
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