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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1921
Page
4
Dr. John J. Tigert, U S commissioner of education, urges using schools to teach pure Americanism and counter radical beliefs. He calls for obligatory state and municipal programs beginning in early grades to defend the body politic and promote individual effort as the nation’s keystone.
The Ohio State Journal looks forward to apple blossom season in Normandy with hopeful anticipation. The line signals a sense of normalcy and seasonal renewal amid daily life.
A fragment from The Bulletin in Sydney shows a wife describing her husband’s strike and her role in maintaining the home. The brief exchange reveals social tensions and gender expectations reflected in the era’s language and humor.
A Washington Star exchange quotes a singer who says I always think before I speak and Senator Sorghum adds the trick is to keep the audience thinking after you get through. The dialogue-style remark centers on oratory and audience engagement.
Mr and Mrs Tilford invite Mr and Mrs Joe Lark for a ride today as their car doesn’t hold the road with only two aboard. After meeting a pleasant stranger near Indynoplus yesterday Tell Binkley found his motor was missing.
A whimsical verse feature portrays the optimistic speaker weathering gloom. The poem contrasts sadness with hopeful resolve, showing the optimist’s moments of doubt followed by renewed belief that virtue and progress will prevail.
Berlin press reports Arthur Nikisch and the Leipsic Gewandhaus orchestra will visit the United States for a concert. Paviova plans four new ballets on her forthcoming American tour developed in London and Paris. The General Federation of Women's Clubs edits a song book by Anne Shaw Faulkner to be distributed Oct 15, featuring about 50 folk and art songs for three part women’s choirs.
Des Moines Oct 10 Freight commissioner Ernest G Wylie says current grain freight tariffs push land values down by as much as 100 an acre and would curb corn and hog production next year A protest was filed with the interstate commerce commission and a hearing on Iowa rates was called Farmers and shippers are urged to file suggested schedules by October 8 Wylie cites corn selling at 63 percent of prewar price in Iowa versus 111 percent in New York and argues freight costs drive the unequal market values
Shirley Mason stars in Ever Since Eve at the Fox Theatre for one day only. The romance plot includes a water rescue and final mystery, directed by Howard M. Mitchell with Herbert Heyes and Eva Gordon in supporting roles. The picture, adapted from Joseph Ernest Peat’s Concerning Chine, has reportedly been successful elsewhere.
A Boston Transcript note observes how fashion influence triggers a flood of bills as style choices drive spending and consumer pressure.
Freight rates push Iowa farmers to rethink crops with corn and oats facing higher relative costs while alfalfa shipments dwindle. Meanwhile a large sugar beet facility near Mason City prepares for a big run, foreseeing 100000 tons of beets processed over ten days as growers adapt to drought and price pressures.
Auditor Glenn C. Haynes and Secretary of State W. C. Ramesay visited three Iowa park sites. Moorehead caves near Maquoketa, a 140 acre Farmington park with Lake of Lilies, and 190 acre Eldora tract with a dam project and a lake. A deal likely to close soon.
Oct 10 report from Mason City states the sugar beet harvest is in full swing this week. W H Baird of the Northern Sugar Corporation announced laborers would begin work.
Pathos and urgency marked the opening of Cedar Rapids free employment bureau as 100 job seekers applied in six hours. More than 1,100 are jobless citywide, with three agencies the city Chamber and American Legion aiding. Immediate work found for fewer than a dozen men.
The Washington Star notes California’s extraordinary spread of Indian languages, many now spoken by only a handful of individuals. Dozens may vanish yearly as last speakers die, prompting efforts to document languages for insights into Pacific coast history.
Ernest J. Lewis, a Chicago to Peoria railroad engineer, credits Tanlac with curing years of stomach and heart pains, headaches, nervousness, and fatigue. He reports weight gain and renewed strength to handle his engine. Tanlac is sold in Washington by local druggists. The piece also notes prewar buying normality across ten states with farm banks' deposits rising and farm mortgages up modestly in principal states.
A broad trade survey by about 5,000 bankers, chambers of commerce, county agents and wholesalers shows business and trade in the farming regions between the Rockies and the Appalachians generally fair to good. Des Moines reports overall solid conditions across the great northern and western agricultural belt.
A new Italian invention uses a water spray to prevent smoke from rising from ship funnels. The apparatus appears showcased as a method to reduce visible smoke plumes at sea.
A humorous exchange questions heredity with a child’s behavior cited against a father’s constant struggle to make ends meet. The brief note reflects the paper’s light editorial tone and local family life humor.
A long pursuit by an agent leads Snaggs to bluntly declare he objects to life insurance because the idea of being more dead than alive is distasteful. The exchange reflects postures and weariness in a pursuit labeled as Snaggs' ongoing trail.
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In the process of J. Marcnsson resinous coating is formed on tubes or hollow bodies of cement concrete or mor tar by action of formaldehyde on phenols. The coating becomes insoluble on exposure and resists gel formation by mineral or fatty oils.
A partial timetable lists train numbers and routes including freight and passenger services. Items reference daily operation and corrections to a westbound schedule noted as J McK and M. & Co. The fragment implies local passes and express services with various numbers and classifications.
Local Masonic bodies announce regular meetings: LODGES Washington Lodge No 26 A F & A M meets first Friday. Cyrus Chapter No 13 R A M meets second Friday. Bethlehem Commandery No 45 K T meets third Friday. Washington Chapter No 98 O E B S meets second Thursday. Damascus Shrine No 10 W S of J meets last Thursday at Moose Hall.
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