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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1930
Page
4
Bible Thought for Today cites Hebrews 11 5 faith in Enoch who was translated so he did not see death and was taken by God the lesson emphasizes pleasing God and trust in divine translation.
The piece argues 216 deaths in ten years from anti alcohol enforcement pale beside 31,000 auto deaths yearly and cites Commander Evangeline Booth praising prohibition. It contrasts Bowery ruin with reduced intoxication and notes saloons’ violence and crime, urging continued prohibition.
A book agent urges a farmer to buy an encyclopedia as his son prepares to start school. The farmer responds with a pointed remark about his own son and schooling expectations.
A collage of reader items includes a joke about a car steering wobble to tease John Timmerman, a bridge club quiet anecdote about children delivering a bedtime message, a light piece on income allocation and life costs, a humorous family poem about hay fever, and a call for more reader poems for a contest.
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