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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1925
Page
4
The passage from Matthew 18 4 is cited for a sermon on humility and childlike faith. The text emphasizes that those who humble themselves like a child are greatest in heaven's realm. The message reflects religious reflection common to Sunday readings.
The Y M C A and Y W C A outline past year work to justify continued support. They highlight increased need for sustaining members, with targets from $15 to $50 and more, to sustain programs in physical education religious education and community services.
The poem recounts Walt Mason borrowing seven dollars from James Whiskers Dinkelspiel for clothing meals and a haircut. Years later Dinkelspiel recalls the loan as the speaker boasts wealth while the lender laments a past aid and the old debt casts a shadow over pride and joy.
The groups report teaching swimming to 200 boys and 150 girls through Y M C A and Y W C A. They enrolled 250 boys in Physical Education, over 100 women in Gym, and 425 women in Swimming. Free swimming instruction aided 211 youth. Health Circus had 100 participants and 700 spectators. Y M C A Circus drew 600 viewers. Y W C A runs Arts Craft Sewing and Music classes and sponsors a Business Women's club with 60 members. The Y builds hosts 30 organizations and 700 women attended paper cutting classes, averaging 800 meals served monthly.
Two armed women robbed the First State Bank of Renner South Dakota seizing $500 in silver. They entered calmly and threatened cashier H S Wilkinson then fled in a battered touring car toward Dell Rapids. Wilkinson kept his hands up as the loot was taken and a $306 currency package missed.
W L Gordon presents a vocabulary note on evanescent meaning passing away gradually vanishing. He emphasizes correct usage and notes common mispronunciations and misspellings to expand daily word study.
A quirky column notes turkey soup dominates menus after Thanksgiving and jokes about cold weather, alcohol in radiators, and a letter from Amos N Alderson in Southern California describing baskets of roses and oranges. The tone wryly questions loyalties and common phrases as a barbershop quip echoes old taboo on cussing.
A playful verse mocks manipulative flattery and male vanity in relationships. It contrasts a commanding husband with a woman’s sly compliments and ends by lampooning the title Colonel as a pompous symbol of authority.
A collection of humorous vignettes and witticisms from a bygone era. Bits include a bishop's breakfast hymn joke about boiling eggs, quips on vacancies and the U.S. constitution, a playful salesgirl line about a size 44, denture humor, and clever lines about milk and honey.
The fragment sketches a brief exchange with a speaker noting cold hands and a reply about gloves. A young character asks for a word and the scene hints at dialogue in progress without a full conclusion.
A recalled joke about padding a birthday reward and a paddling ruse gone awry. A fort reminiscence follows about a winter night when a brother peered at the milk can lights, a shadowy visitor in the kitchen, and a pause before recognition.
A night of mischief ends with a kind neighbor offering coffee bacon sandwich and coffee cake. Two youths in disguise attempt theft but the elderly woman treats them with unexpected generosity and sends them on their way with food.
A reader reports locating an old fashioned rocker at their house. The house owner insists on using the chair, claiming its sentimental value and charm. The message ends with an abrupt personal affirmation.
A garbled text displays stray lines of dialogue with phrases about rail track, a man refusing marriage, a claim of nice encyclopedias, a rusty item that won’t shoot, and a request for a mate. The pieces hint at a chaotic scene or cartoonish speech from an old newspaper page.
Fort Dodge elected Fort Dodge native and Iowa Older Boys conference president during the 19th annual gathering promoted by the Y M C A and state churches. Burlington reports the state lost its case against Bunker Ryan for assaulting Hawkeye editor J Tracy Garret with the trial expected to proceed to the jury.
Representatives from about forty Iowa high school newspapers studied the Daily Iowan yesterday and tonight will help publish the Sunday edition. Prominent editors and educators spoke to the students. It pays to Advertise-al.
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