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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1925
Page
4
Open House Friday Evening At Local Y M C A
The Y M C A and Y W C A announce open house next Friday evening in the IT building to show the facility from cellar to garret with swimming exhibitions by boys and girls and music by McKay's High School orchestra. Admission is free for all. a small corner will be roped off by the Girl Reserves to sell light edibles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKay
Howard Freshwaters
Pater
Papa
Burglars Loot Safe Bud Home For Prewar Gin
ABE MARTIN notes burglars sacked the Safe Bud home yesterday taking three quarts of pre war gin and Mrs Bud's elopement fund. The quip about liquor shows the townsfolk’s tone as he remarks on the theft and the resilient mood after the incident.
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason Dingbat and I
Dingbat boasts a flashy car and mansion while the speaker’s tin bus and tumbledown shack show thrift. Dingbat’s endless spending outpaces income and the narrator vows to save kopecks, hoping for rubles when Dingbat faces bankruptcy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Mason
Dingbat
Dyngbat
Dinghat
YMCA attracts 200 boys to broad program at Washington institution
Over several months about two hundred boys joined activities at the YMCA in Washington. The report highlights swimming, games, and physical exercise plus religious and social programs run by the Y M C A and Y W C A. Visitors are invited to a Friday evening open house from 7 39 to about 9 30 to witness the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Crawfordsville Weekend Visitors and Local Cantata Practice
Claire Twinam from Iowa City visited with his parents in Crawfordsville. Mr and Mrs John Bullers and children visited in Des Moines with relatives. Merle Twinam spent Sunday afternoon with her parents near New London. Community chorus directed by Miss Norma Reaney rehearsed a Christmas cantata. first practice went well. Everette Griffith of Washington visited Crawfordsville yesterday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Claire Twinam
Iowa City
John Bullers
Des Moines
Merle Twinam
Kabaker
Alvin
Frank Jones
Kinross
Eddie Jones
F.D. Snavely
Washington ,D. C
Maxine
Dr. McIntosh
Ernie Wetrie
Eardley Bell Jr
Washington
Eardley
Iowa
Cecil Oldaker
California
L. V. Cresswell
F. C. Schroder
Postville
Glenwood
Mr. Schroder
Wm. Schroder
Davenport
Chicago
Max MecCrabb
McCrabb
Frank Huber
Max
Art Anderson
Fred Taylor
Fred Taylor of What Cheer
Mr. Baldrige
Denison
A. L. White
Mercy Hospital
Jay White
Burton Lakin
South English
Wm. Lakin
Community Visits Note Local Families Over Weekend
Family groups visited Sunday events at multiple local homes in Washington Mount Pleasant and Pleasant Hill. J W Dodds from Winnebucca Nevada traveled home after a brief stay with T L Dodds. Florence Thomas, Pleasant Hill teacher, spent the weekend at her Mount Pleasant residence. Additional calls came from Harry Bishop and family visiting Chas Kephart and Ed Simmering, with Clare Nicholson at John Putnam's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Simmering Jr
Roy Kephart
Elmer Kephart
Washington
J. W. Dodds
Winnebucca
Nevada
T. L. Dodds
Ed Simmering
Charles
Stanley Marshall
Florence Thomas
Pleasant Hill
Des Moines-Ray Harrison A Drake Cheerleader Collapses After Game
Drake University cheerleader Ray Harrison continued supporting the Drake football team against Iowa State on Saturday despite an acute appendicitis. He collapsed immediately after the game and was rushed to a hospital where an operation proved successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Ray Harrison
Drake University
Drake
Iowa State
Thanksgiving Game Remains a Classic Battle in Washington
A nostalgic reminiscence covers Thanksgiving football between Washington and Columbus Junction, noting good roads and a return to normal business. The vivid kitchen scene with Warren, a ghostly window scare, and a child’s fear, plus a Floridian anecdote, add local flavor and humor to the day.
Small Gift Cause Causes Neighborhood Dispute
The piece relays a domestic quarrel where a girl admits kicking her neighbor Genevieve on the shins and slapping her face after claiming divine instruction from a parental figure. She then reveals spitting in the neighbor’s face was her own idea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Reade McCrory
Genevieve
Footsteps Homeward Amid Treasury Bill Shortage
The passage notes a landlady awaiting at home while explaining officials from the United States treasury cannot print dollar bills quickly enough. The speaker expresses shared frustration with others in the same situation, using a rueful, poetic tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Treasury
Nevada Man Slashes Self in Story County Home
Jacob Nordskog, 50, took his own life at his Story county residence by slashing his throat with a razor. Police reported no other persons were involved and the incident occurred at his home on an unspecified date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Jacob Nordskog
Story County
Gardener Proposes Potatoes In Hills Not In Flat Yard
A reader asks about growing potatoes in a flat yard and notes planting in hills is required. The plan fails due to level ground and difficulty forming hills in a level garden.
Dare-Devil Log Riders Star In The Knockout At Fox
The Knockout features Canadian log riders Edoard and Emanuel Letang in perilous river stunts filmed in New York for the interiors. Milton Sills battles a 6 foot 7 inch foe as directors stage rapid-water action with a dozen log rollers. The sequence includes dam blasts and a lumber camp clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fox
Broadway
New York
First National
Canada
Milton Sills
Lambert Hillyer
Edoard
Emanuel Letang
Local families visit Washington and share social calls
Seventy six Seventy six reports a busy weekend with Arthur Romine family and Ev erette Green group visiting Washington. Several households including Henderson Berry and Bell households hosted or visited friends and relatives across Saturday and Sunday. Howard Bower and wife welcomed a baby girl Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Romine
Oren
Wilma
Everette Green
Helen
Washington
Bury Henderson
Junior
Paul Berry
Green Valley
Louise Bell
Hazel Huber
Homer Mayer
Cecil Davison
William Shaffer
Clark Bell
Ed Simmering and Family Noted in Washington Railroad Item
A fragment mentions Mr. and Mrs. Ed Simmering in a Washington railroad note dated November 23, identifying a domestic or social item in the newspaper journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, R. R
Washington R. R
Ed Simmering
Practical Jokes and Family Tales from By-The-Way
A reader recalls playful pranks with clothespins and a mouse scare, then shares a Thanksgiving red string turkey joke from Kansas. The reminiscence covers childhood games, a hired man dressing up, and family life on a farm with neighbors, humor, and wholesome mischief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Warren
Daily English Lessons by W L Gordon Word Focus
A short excerpt from Daily Lessons in English by W L Gordon outlines usage tips. It highlights misused and mispronounced words and offers a vocabulary goal with today’s word preeminent meaning supremely eminent and example of diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Gordon
Mrs Claire Mead’s Halloween fete misprinted as Big Feet
A past issue misprinted Mrs Claire Mead’s Halloween fete at her home. The editor notes a compositor error swapped fete for feet and the paper corrects the misunderstanding while preserving the event context and her name in the record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire Mead
Electric Washer Sparks Gossip and Independence
A housewife declares plans for an electric washer freeing her from chores and from a dependent role, while a laundress warns against gossip though approves labor-saving tech. The exchange captures early 20th century domestic changes and social dynamics around household technology.
Height of conscientiousness oddity in a moving plan
A Philadelphia man orders 30,000 cockroaches to keep a rental space unchanged for move out. The stunt aims to leave the premises as found. A Chicago man arrested for sleeping in a theatre underscores a city misadventure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thrift Magazine
Chicago
A Chinaman Named Dam Li Joins the Diplomatic Service
A sly exchange unfolds as Dam Li joins the diplomatic service and remarks on fitting in. Claudine and Heloise trade a wry repartee about attraction and human faults in a rapid fire restaurant scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dam LI
Village barber shop hosts shine boy this Saturday
The text notes a village setting where the shine boy will be at the barber shop again next Saturday. It contrasts social attitudes with a provocative line about how a woman’s actions on a street car are interpreted and comments that clothing choices affect a man’s reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shine
Wellman Newsfield Moves and Local Notes
Mrs. Clark Brown and Mrs. Bruce Moomey travel from Wellman to Iowa City for eye surgery and rheumatism relief. Local residents undergo operations, moves, and travel. school and church group events are noted along with weather and upcoming funerals.
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Mother
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Dad
Philadelphia
Wellman
Clark Brown
Bruce Moomey
Colorado Springs
Moomey
Joe Bender
A. Braden
Stone
Parker
Cedar Rapids
Mable Arthur
Town City
A. F
A. M
H. H. Wileen
Joe Ryan
Jim Ryan
Arron Shettler
Joe Starr
Mrs. Starr
Arron
Park Hotel
Keith Adams
Chas Steinger
Kenneth Anderson
John Kelley
Minneapolis
Eardley Bell, Jr
Valeta
U.S. Pat
Southern Coals Coke Co.,cin.o
John Shields & Sons
Loy
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