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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1923
Page
4
The text states the Associated Press exclusive rights to use news dispatches credited in the paper and local news, with all rights to special dispatches reserved. It emphasizes exclusive publication rights and reser vations.
A brief devotional note cites Job 34 29 asking who can cause trouble when God grants quietness. The piece emphasizes divine sovereignty over peace and disturbance.
My Aunt Matilda died and left me her money in a plain roll of coins and silver. Agents arrived with chunks of sales pitches from oil land, subdivisions, and charitable asks. I rue the windfall as hustlers swarm my door and mock noble causes with every graft and scheme.
The article warns that oil field promoters create “sure things” only for themselves while investors lose in paying quantities. It urges safe investing, trusting a reputable advisor, starting small, and letting savings accrue interest. A civil engineer recalls starting to save after age 40 when a small bond bonus sparked interest.
The speaker, identified as Ronda, outlines returns from savings bonds real estate and mortgages. She cites doubling of principal in bonds and 60 percent real estate gains, plus 50 to 60 percent mortgage returns. She credits good advice and warns against inferior securities while claiming never to have lost money.
The evening Art Apartment of the Fortnightly club meets with Miss Etha Dawson on Tuesday Oct 16 at 7 30. Various notices list bake sales and club gatherings including Methodist groups and local social clubs with dates and hostesses.
Marsh Bailey announces Pythian Circle, Rural Woman's Club, Bridge Club and Pythian Sisters gatherings with hostesses Mrs Ralph Thompson Mrs T W Hunter Mrs Earl Corbin and Mrs E C Carris. Events include box supper social missionary tea and a masked social with music.
In Cincinnati on Oct 16, James G. McFarland head of the Disabled American Veterans urges rapid government action to aid wounded WWI veterans in education rehabilitation vocations and welfare. He promotes National Forget-Me-Not Day to be observed November 10 urging a more intimate government role in veterans futures.
A collection of humorous lines and cartoon snippets reflecting small town norms and domestic ironies. Witty asides critique marriage prospects, vanity, endurance, and social mores with playful exaggeration and local flavor.
A veteran writer recalls how early players caught bare handed without masks and chest protectors, noting pitchers who threw far and teammates from forty years ago. He mentions Pem Bridgford, Dr Charles Stewart, Harry Bell, Jim Nick, Bob McCall, and Sam Warren and recalls old gear like the striped bed ticking feather bed. He also references the Washington team and Johnnie Ott.
A fragment shows a dialogue about an advertising inducement. The speaker mentions fur lined suspenders and a plan to think over Hal Reister's proposition while noting they avoid going out after 7 PM due to the night air.
A playful dialogue reveals a misread cue at dinner as George mistakes a foot press for something else. Ethel teases that it was not her foot touched, while a mother smiles at the minister, suggesting comic domestic tension.
A fragmented line of verse about fate love and dawn ends with a labeled sign off from Lake Co Indiana Times. The passage also contains a For Sale Or Trade note seeking a large hotel and boarding house with forty five rooms.
A fragmented column sketches scenes from home life with a vacci nation joke and a golf minded father ignoring a bug on the ceiling. It contrasts a dog waking a baby and a mother scolding with the circular routine of a restless night. A fable about three stone cutters closes the fragment.
A stranger asks the workers. the second replies I am cutting the stone while the third declares I am building a cathedral. The dialogue captures a craftsman’s devotion and collective purpose in their enduring task.
Manila report says opium seizures in the second quarter of 1923 soared past prior records. The port of Manila alone seized 193 kilos 669 grams of opium valued at $67,500 with court penalties totaling $1,970.50 and more than 26 years in sentences.
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