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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1928
Page
4
A. F. Putnam and Sons promote cloth charts with an electric fabric tester. The device reads material content by contact, distinguishing silk wool and cotton. Two glass enclosed hands register correctness, showing if fabric is all wool or mixed.
A Buffalo clipping cites Wall Street Journal figures on 1920 to 1928 tax and debt shifts showing U S taxes down and New York state taxes and debt up. It asserts federal gains under current policy while accusing Tammany graft and City graft in New York.
Daily lessons present the word pendulous meaning loosely suspended or hanging. An example notes pendulous eyelids as a sign of old age and suggests expanding vocabulary with a new daily word.
A student examination item from a Los Angeles high school reinterprets the Protestant Reformation as the moment Protestants left the Catholic Church and began to forgive their own sins. The note appears in a fragment of a Christian Register style quotation.
A San Francisco Chronicle letter argues for a strong Boulder Dam in California to control rising flood waters from the Colorado River ahead of congressional action. It urges federal backing and timely construction to avert downstream damage.
A humorous exchange reports a canvasser asking a shopkeeper about a night-watchman ad. The shopkeeper claims the ad appeared yesterday and that he was burgled last night, prompting a wry remark on advertising results.
Classified notes show a Fordson tractor offered by a seller in Harrisonburg Virginia and assorted fur neckpieces including raccoons foxes and martens priced from fifteen dollars, with terms. TheOttawa paper lists similar items including spring fur pieces and live wildlife gear.
A fragmented readers page blends political verse with light social musings. It parodies campaigns about Hoover and Al, riffs on whiskey and prewar aging, and nods to poetry of Frost and Riley while musing on winter travel and shared rides.
A jumble of overheard remarks and offhand lines from daily life. Sandy impulsively hailed police and shouted for a city drag net while a chief muses on varied affiliations. A half dollar drops from a window and idle chat about literature and dating threads through the scene.
A note recalls candidate Wes Licklider, called the farmers' friend, traveling to his cousin Jim's countryside home to be photographed. The piece contrasts his rural focus with a broader question about law enforcement action against liquor sellers rather than major distributors.
A fragmentary note describes an opening class where an instructor unfamiliar with teaching circulates cards asking gentlemen to fill names and addresses and young ladies to record telephone numbers, reflecting social norms of the setting. Black & Blue Jay.
Washington Lodge No 26 AF and AM will meet in regular assembly Friday evening in October. Important business to be handled. A full attendance is requested.
The 19613 Baptist choir rehearses Wednesday and Friday evenings with a schedule at 730 and 7230. The Baptist Ladies host an all day quilting and sewing buttons at the church Thursday. A bake sale by West Chester Pyrian Sisters is planned for Hoover and Porter’s store Saturday Oct 6. Members urged to donate.
Hazel Peterson of Blakesburg reports removing goitre after using Sorbol Quadruple a colorless liniment advertised as easy to apply and inexpensive. Readers urged to contact Lemmon's Pharmacy or Sorbol Company Mechanicsburg Ohio for more information. product sold locally.
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