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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1929
Page
4
The piece argues for double tracking busy highways to cut accidents. It suggests that if one could guarantee or justify the extra cost by saving five thousand to twelve thousand lives annually, communities would support extending double tracks and overhead crossings on major routes into cities.
President Hoover addressed the International Convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Indianapolis urging extended moral, physical, and economic education on temperance. He warned against relying solely on law to enforce abstinence and stressed personal conviction as foundational to temperance.
Ainsworth Iona recalls a childhood moment when her little brother fled a neighbor’s yard chased by a dog. He watched from a window and quipped about “privy” going with his daddy. Anna Lowry notes the memory from fifth grade.
The article discusses a pause in the great educational temperance campaign as postwar unsettlement and fashionable drinking undermine enforcement. It cites President Hoover urging personal education to renew support for prohibition and to make illegal liquor unfashionable. National Republic.
A humorous item noting how early lessons about cold prevention seem useless when the speaker admits to having a cold. The speaker jokes about swapping the illness for offers of analgesic balm and spare handkerchiefs, implying frustration with cold transmission.
Petition filed by Ed Simmering Daisy Simmering and Charles Caldwell seeking ownership in fee simple of two tracts in Washington County Iowa description includes Tract One Southwest Quarter Northeast Quarter Section 34 Township 75 North Range 7 West and Tract Two East Half Southwest Quarter Southeast Quarter Northwest Quarter Section 34 Township 75 North Range 7 West. Unknown claimants and heirs are named as defendants in the action seeking quiet title and resolution of adverse claims.
The Department of Agriculture with land grant colleges reports that among farming outreach methods the news service is most cost effective, yielding fifteen times the results per dollar versus extension exhibits. The rural press circulates this news, enabling higher farm income and better rural living conditions. A critic adds a remark about clothing criticism and personal change.
A daily English lesson emphasizes tangible as perceptible to the touch and substantial. It notes example They could not uncover any tangible evidence and highlights common misspellings and pronunciation notes for misused words.
The petition prayers ask that the title be established and quieted in the plaintiff in separate tracts and that all defendants and unknown claimants be barred from any right or claim to the property. It asks general and equitable relief. Defendants are urged to appear by noon the second day of the next term, otherwise default and judgment. The notice references the November 1929 term in Washington City Iowa.
A Dubuque resident touts Tanlac claiming full health restoration after taking the remedy. The advertisement asserts Tanlac improves digestion, relieves dizziness and nervousness, increases appetite, and boosts strength with a low cost per dose and a money back guarantee.
The Music department of the Fortnightly club will meet with Mrs BK L Stewart on Monday evening at Ti Sire 19813.
Booster club schedules a meeting with Mrs Guy Stumps on Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The gathering includes a lesson on preparing sandwich trays.
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