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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1923
Page
4
The paper declares exclusive rights to AP news dispatches and locally published news. It states all rights of publication for special dispatches are reserved and protected.
The devotion urges readers to seek God with full devotion and promises finding him through earnest, wholehearted pursuit based on Jeremiah 29:13. The message emphasizes sincerity in faith as a guiding daily reflection.
A young football player died at Ames from injuries in a game. The article notes prior fatalities this year and discusses parental concerns about college athletics, emphasizing scholarship, discipline, and the drive to excel while sports remain central to youth development. The piece also presents a diary entry from the deceased, Jack Thrice, detailing his mindset before the game.
A rustic remark jokes about using a tin cup of bootleg whisky as a fireless cooker amid talk of centrally located cities for national conventions. The quip reflects practical chatter and humorous views on convention sites.
A comic verse recounts a vain attempt at daily walking. The narrator endures a chaotic rural journey with misadventures from a passing car to a roaming bull and a bee sting, ultimately realizing the futility of the plan to lose weight.
Thursday evening the Methodist ladies held a rum mage sale and bake sale at the Community parlors. Several families visited relatives in Katona and Iowa City. Wellman triumphed over What Cheer 9 to 7 as the band provided musicalinspiration. Others prepared to travel to California and Los Angeles for the winter, while visits and departures marked the social calendar.
The crabapple name appears Scandinavian in origin linked to Swedish krabbaple. Skeat notes the Swedish word ties to krabba for the sea creature, and suggests the fruit name arose from a notion of pinching reflecting the crab’s claws.
Maurice Hewlett, visiting an Edward I era English mansion, discovers a tall bare-backed book in the ante room library. He finds the title page and portrait and confirms the volume is a first folio Shakespeare valued at $20,000.
The article describes folk beliefs about a rooster crowing over a drowned body in Norway signaling discovery. It also notes Persian superstitions where a cock's cold feet foretell death and warm feet signal good fortune for the family.
A peculiar English dipper once a thrush that hunted underwater for aquatic beetles and insects. It repeatedly dived deeper, eventually disappearing as a surface walker and becoming a diver, yet still lacking webbed feet and true diving bird traits.
A collage of offbeat lines portrays shifting attitudes toward worth and work, a fat cat, and playful quips about optimism and pessimism. Vignettes include a doctor’s aside, the joyriders who spin, and a narrator recalling a moment with a woman, ending with a joke about a man in a canoe with a basket and pillows.
A Native man reveals a personal invention, a hornet attractor, in a brisk exchange about new tech. A spinster, Nettie McHare, confronts a thief in her room, ordering him to come from under the bed and daring him to escape.
The Davenport Democrat notes confusion over a classical dancer’s intention in a spring morning sketch and credits “Homemade Hootch” for above jokes. A regular contributor warns that neither “Home Made Hooted” nor the column director claim original authorship.
A boss mocks Riley for his injuries saying it could be worse yet. Riley quips the accident spared his weekly pay. A pickpocket then nabs the fat man's watch as he departs.
A newspaper item notes Washington officials or residents spending a month in another town to study, observe, or participate in a program. The report highlights travel, hosting arrangements, and anticipated outcomes for local affairs.
A reader notes that many corrections begin when the initial item was already correct. The comment implies a cycle where editors adjust content that did not require changes, highlighting a need for careful fact checking and minimal edits.
The fragment shows a crude exchange about attracting women. Slick suggests using a gasoline scented handkerchief as a joke line, hinting at deceptive or flamboyant pickup theatrics.
A quirky collection of jokes and witticisms about American and British identities, droll lines on marriage and Ford cars, and a humorous dialogue between Irishmen about mortar and brickwork. The piece ends with a satirical fishing plan about a drunken Bryan and elephants.
Amusements feature at the Fox Theatre presents two exceptionally praised babies from the Schulberg picture as ideal twins. Directors Gasnier and Dr. Arnold Crampe highlight Muriel McCormac and Mickey McBan as standout infants in looks and brains, with both earning engraved medals from baby contests in California.
The Wo mans Savings and Loan Company opens new offices in Cleveland within the Women's City Club building. Organized in January 1922 by 15 women, it reports assets over $150,000 and 500 stockholders. All officers are women, reflecting a fully female run institution.
The article notes the firm’s directors and sales force are women, while its largest clientele are men. New offices feature a feminine touch with paintings, but otherwise present a stern, businesslike environment of gray walls and heavy mahogany furniture.
An instructive volume by Dr A S McCleary of Kansas City details a non cutting method to cure piles and rectal troubles. The method avoids bed confinement and hospital costs and claims twenty four years of success in over eight thousand cases. free postpaid book offered to readers who send name and address to Dr McCleary D611 Parkview Sanatarium Kansas City Mo.
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