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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1919
Page
8
Weekly notes from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Education and the National Kindergarten Association in New York offering guidance to parents. Tips cover early learning activities, developmental milestones, and classroom expectations presented in a practical, period-appropriate tone.
Social events fill Denison with visits from about fifty guests at a country home two miles from town. The Denison Review notes weddings and engagements including Delbert H. Elwell and Magdalena Rachwitz with Counties, churches, and family ties outlined along with post ceremony plans and gifts.
A civic essay extols teaching children teamwork via play and fairness. It links kindergarten discipline to social harmony and promotes Scouts organizations as engines for unity and character in a democratic society.
A survey of notable women: Bessie Townsend heads Atlantic City finances. Elizabeth Bachringer runs multiple ventures in Arizona. Mrs Leonard Wood and Mrs John Hammond lead a national citizenship effort to preserve Roosevelt birthplace. Sculptor Belle Kinney gains recognition for Confederate monument plans across southern capitals. London University to admit women to commerce degrees on par with men. New York women in government roles showing strong performance. Mae Beth Demarest and Nellie Swarts noted for leadership in estate and women’s bureaus. Mme Curie elected professor in radiology at Warsaw. Chiru Takamori teaches in Tokyo returning to learn American cooking.
A call to share a message with every parent by cutting out this item and giving it to a friend. The note urges wide distribution to spread the information to households nationwide.
A educator outlines plans to resume teaching duties upon returning to Japan, focusing on guiding her students and continuing educational work.
The passage describes Turkish women walking unveiled beside men, signaling a shift in social customs. It also notes Ida Rubinstein, a Russian dancer, as the first woman to fly over the Alps, making the Venice to Paris journey in an Italian piloted airplane.
In Atlanta Georgia the recent primary elections mark a first time for women to participate in the voting process. The development highlights evolving civic engagement and gender participation at the polls.
Indigestion biliousness and constipation relief promised. Hundreds have been restored to health and happiness. If troubled give them a trial. You are certain to be pleased for they will benefit you. Lemmon's Drug Store.
Day to day news from Dayton Grove includes visitors W C Embree at Cedar Rapids Lee Embree home. J L Sigmund welcomes a baby daughter born Oct 11. Floy Owen has tonsil surgery and returns home. W E Leet attended United Presbyterian Synod in Clarion. Paul Gass visited Washington late last week. Walter Staller family and A E Knotts enjoyed Washington calls.
Sarah Mildred Willner leads the Overseas Ladies Orchestra, joined by Charles Edward Russell and The Fighting Americans quartet, in a program of music and fun for four soldiers overseas. Tickets at 1.75 dollars, sensor tickets 35 cents per number, supported by the Improvement League.
Mrs. Steve Stewart hosts Fortnightly home economics section one this afternoon. Section two meets at Mrs. Wilsons home. Mrs. G W Hay to entertain the evening home economics group at Shalom Methodist church. Shalom Group meets at church. Wednesday hostesses include Mrs Lauder Kennedy for Kolah club and Mrs Harry Shrader for the Pythian Circle. Navajo club meets at Mrs C B Woodfords home. Miss Louise Cunningham hosts Chapter 1 BP EK at her residence. Friday features Methodist Ladies Aid social at the church and a candy social near Haskins. Mrs Carl Hedges hosts Fortnightly Music department in the evening.
Mrs Atkinson will host friends after December first in a newly erected house on the Charles Atkinson homestead four miles southwest of town. The farm spans about two hundred acres and is the late Mr Atkinsons birthplace now operated by his son. Local friends extend congratulations and best wishes for happiness and prosperity.
A Washington dispatch notes a prolonged executive session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss if President Wilson is fit to fulfill duties. The panel postponed action on a resolution seeking information about Chinese Japanese relations, amid objections by Senator Williams of Minnesota.
The item muses on Eve not heeding temptation and suggests she would have avoided it if a film theater had offered an alternative. The Dallas News voice blends whimsical judgment with cultural commentary.
The article notes that most superior wheats now grown in the United States originated from Asia Europe and South America. Through testing acclimation and selective breeding a berry was developed that adapts to local wheat growing regions across the country.
The Orinoco turtle lays eggs extraordinarily rich in oil. Indians in British Guiana extract 25,000,000 yearly from eggs for oil. Sea bird eggs are also prized for food, with the murre on the Labrador coast regarded as the best.
Two detachments of British troops marched for about a week through a famous gem field in Southwest Africa during the war days. At each halt the soldiers searched for stones and many valuable jewels were found along the trek.
An public health style advertisement touts drinking a glass of hot water with limestone phosphate before breakfast to cleanse the digestive system, improve skin, banish headaches and bad breath, and boost appetite. It promises fresh, rosy cheeks and steady well being after a week of daily inside bathing.
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