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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1924
Page
4
A publisher announces that the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to published dispatches in this paper and all locally published news. It reserves all rights to special dispatches and publication use.
A dated devotional excerpt cites Ezekiel urging repentance and renewal. The passage offers a call to cast away transgressions and seek a new heart and spirit, promising God takes no pleasure in death and invites turning to life.
The second Annual Meeting of the American Child Health Association is underway in Kansas City. The piece argues for prioritizing public health and child welfare over partisan political meetings and stresses the high death rate among preschool children, urging support for sanitation, child care, and health supervision.
The piece argues for expanding health supervision for children and emphasizes physical exercise and proper nutrition as essential to developing healthy men and women. It calls for gymnasiums and sports to replace traditional manual labor in ensuring well rounded youth and lifelong strength.
A satirical piece notes how Tutankhamun’s tomb unearthed after 3,000 years triggered a burst of media and advertising attention. It highlights how advertising can resurrect interest in a dead figure and considers the power of publicity to revive relevance for living personalities.
A fragment discusses sharing good news and the impact on business. It warns that even the best merchandise fails if the world does not receive help, urging remembrance of Tut and the value of spreading information to avoid business stagnation.
Crawfordsville residents and others visited Washington on Saturday mainly to view The Covered Wagon. The Rev Dr Milla J Taylor spoke at United Verribyterian church about the churches forward movement. Rev Myron Hayes attended Women’s Missionary meetings at Ottumwa and preached upon return.
A poem portrays the boss watching workers at labor, rewarding diligence and punishing laziness. It praises the hardworking youth and the pursuit of promotion while critiquing those who shirk and grumble on the job. The speaker notes the boss seeks to elevate capable workers.
Harvey Ingham of the Des Moines Register and Tribune told the White House that Iowa will likely cast its electoral vote for President Coolidge by about 100,000. He cited a westward undercurrent favoring Coolidge and noted cross-state appeal beyond Iowa.
Five children in Muscatine were bitten by a rabid dog on Saturday. The dog was captured and killed, its head sent to Iowa City for testing, with a positive rabies result confirmed. Children to receive pasteur treatment. all dogs ordered tied and reported to police to prevent spread.
Dear friends we begin our revival meeting at Pleasant Hill church Oct 12 and continue through Oct 26 with prayer meetings in the church basement at 7 30 PM and auditorium services at 7 45 PM each evening Regular minister B W Pettit preaches all week and next Sunday er Shell will be with us all next week Also Mr and Mrs Harry Payne and daughters Hazel Helen and Mary Alice with Miss Nellie Loder visited the Clark Loder home near Mt Ayr south of Wayland.
A jumble of column notes and quips follows Rev. John Kern’s control tomorrow with light verse and jokes about sifted modern life. The items span from humorous ads to family letters, postcards, and a joke about clerical romance, ending with a quip on income tax figures.
A humorous verse notes a man driving with one hand while embracing his girlfriend as friends bury him for dangerous multitasking. It argues one action at a time yields better lives and calls out a husband writing from Rome about the Forum and Coliseum.
A witty line from a Nebraska paper notes a widow with nine children married another with seven, joking that it was a merger rather than a marriage. The remark frames blended families as a practical union.
A bystander notes a bystander remarks a gentleman is an early settler who pays his bills on the first of each month. A rousing song rally urges all to vote, praising loyalty and law while decrying sedition. A quip about marriage contrasts old age and debt.
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