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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1921
Page
4
The piece recounts a flat tire incident where an old bus breaks down on a city street and a calm Jemima Blair offers to change the casing. The speaker, aging and joked about femininity, concedes respect for her help and embodies a light social feud about gender roles.
Mrs Ida Pickett of Buffalo New York says Tanlac ended a 25 year search for relief from indigestion and improved her health after decades. Ad mentions Sherman Bros Pioneer Drug Store and druggists selling Tanlac in Washington and elsewhere.
A United States Bureau of Mines report by coal engineer J. J. Rutledge argues that high bituminous coal costs can be cut by using permissible explosives, electric cap lamps, and modern mining methods. Improved recovery, reduced subsidence, and lower maintenance costs follow from land acquisition over the seam and undercutting strategies.
A narrator describes Hopi House at Grand Canyon as a native built replica of Hopi homes with living quarters and a museum. Visitors watch a 5:30 p.m. dance by local Indians noted for agility and endurance and remark on the absence of women performers in these festivities.
The party tours Bakersfield California noting three thousand producing oil wells and a wealthy, modern city with a court house library city hall park hospital high school and old town. Hospitality is praised as they travel onward to San Francisco and reflect on Santa Fe service and bustling urban life.
A second deadly car crash in the community underscores driving caution amid calm conditions. A visiting critic praised the town, suggesting the slogan should shift from the cleanest city in Iowa to the friendliest city. Horseshoe grounds were empty until noon, explained by washday as most players helped with laundry, Monday.
Weather forecasts promise a hard winter and many game birds may freeze or starve. Providing fall shelter and food boosts survival. ideas include corn shocks, brush piles, a wind shielded grain supply, and shallow raised boxes. Set protections early so birds become accustomed before snow arrives.
Centerville Iwo Oct 15 two women known as Mrs Morton and Jamita Knight alias Miss Morton were accused of cashing several bad checks totaling about 157 dollars at Frankels department store Curtis Phillips dry goods and Centerville Trust and Savings bank. They were taken off a Burlington train and jailed. authorities say they operated in multiple towns and may have netted nearly 1000 dollars.
A man proposes extreme coercion to force a partner’s consent. He threatens turning on gas burners to ruin the maiden’s father financially rather than kill himself. The scene hinges on intimidation and coercive leverage in a domestic tension.
The article recounts the life of Madame du Barry from servant girl to royal mistress and her fate during the French Revolution. It centers on Louis Zamora a boy with a crooked back who influenced events, including her execution on December 7, 1708, and Zamora’s role in revealing the king’s fate.
Chicago reports that the American railway system, ten times larger than Britain's, faces a potential strike. Two years ago US railroads posted revenues of 5.184 billion dollars with expenses of 4.419 billion, 233,991 miles operated, 697,266,432 revenue passengers in half a year, and freight tonnage of 1,031,645,136 tons. Rail labor counted 1,977,616 workers.
In Cedar Rapids on October 15 16 year old Lelia Lampman confessed to County Attorney H K Lockwood that she and 17 year old Gilbert Cropp of Center Point plotted to wed after claiming seduction. Cropp denied guilt and was released. Lampman’s mother had sought his arrest.
Oakville October 17 17 year old Paul Wagenbaugh son of Mr and Mrs George Wagenbaugh was killed Friday evening after a fall from a tree during a hunting trip. He died about midnight from injuries described as a broken neck in the report. Local rail schedules appear in the text.
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