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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1927
Page
4
A brief poem selected by D. R. E. offers witty guidance from W. S. Gilbert. The verse mocks isolation and encourages human contact with playful irony, reflecting Victorian humor and social satire in a compact literary snippet.
Senator Arthur Capper argues forty-five of forty eight states supported prohibition and that modification or repeal of enforcement is tantamount to opposing the Eighteenth Amendment. He contends the Volstead Act enforces the amendment and that liquor will not obey any watered down law. Capper predicts party conventions will back strict enforcement and rejects compromise.
Daily lesson on a single vocabulary word CHAOTIC defined as disordered or confused. Example: He brought the country out of this chaotic condition. Includes mispronunciation notes and guidance on building vocabulary with repeated use.
The speaker argues liquor policy is a decisive issue in elections. Any candidate who hedges on the liquor question faces defeat, and neither party nor the Republican party will risk modification or repeal, insisting the matter must be settled firmly.
A reflective couplet about timber and character comparing trees and men. It contrasts those who never toil with sturdy survivors who gain strength through adversity. The poem suggests resilience comes from facing storms and that the strongest people and trees bear scars from many winds.
The poem extols hidden depths behind creation and action. It argues that meaning, spirit, and greater power lie behind outward form in art and love. The lines compare painters to canvases, sculptors to breath, and receivers to nerves, concluding that space is nothing to spirit and essence arises from heartfelt doing.
A drunken man lounges beside a dignified clergyman in a Duluth Tribune excerpt. The boozy man offers a drink, the clergyman declines firmly, and the exchange ends with a comic remark about the drinker’s attire.
A boy snatches a ball from a girl who cries out. A kind man chastises the boy and demands the ball be returned. The girl protests that the boy is not bad and that she does not want the ball anyway.
A plump young woman seeks weight loss guidance from a physician who prescribes a month long diet plan. On return she reveals she followed only her regular meals, having eaten nothing else, prompting the doctor to question her restraint. The anecdote, attributed to an exchange, highlights miscommunication and irony in medical dieting.
A humorous West Virginia stop shows Henry Ford Edison and Firestone in a Buckingham cross-roads store. Ford buys globes and tires, Edison jokes about being in the car, Firestone is named, Burroughs quips with a Santa Claus aside, the merchant threatens a wrench if he is Santa.
A small boy sits on his father's knee as his mother endures a delicate hairdo. The scene shifts to a man in a new car reacting to a telegraph pole collision, ending with a lighthearted remark from another voice.
A humorous note from a relative complains about trans Atlantic travelers neglecting a method to dispose of used razor blades by dumping them at sea. It suggests fish and the Old Man of the Sea could benefit, while the author laments being busy. A train announcer joke follows with travel wishes toward Boston.
A playful verse follows Maisie through the year as she dons summer furs velvet hat and veil to shield from sun and heat and even a red triangle on her throat. The narrator laments Maisie’s elusive presence never here but always there, then quotes a stray comment about a party unraveling amid strange lines.
A Western railroad foreman sent an accident report note that asked whether the supervisor should include his own remarks or Casey’s, after Casey’s foot was struck by a spike maul. The exchange highlights workplace humor amid safety records.
A humorous 1927 diary from H. I. Phillips detailing a driver's 11 hour urban odyssey in the auto Spirit of Nervous Profession. The narrator notes fuel and food shortages, encounters with traffic cops, and deteriorating vehicle condition as he progresses block by block toward an office half a mile away.
A humorous diary style entry recounts a claimant’s misreadings and misdirections as they chase a distant office, noting false sightings, dwindling supplies, and a final joke about a silk stocking finding stable ground. It preserves a period voice and playful tone amid a chaotic trek.
A reflective verse hints at relationship strain and aging dynamics. The speaker notes growing apart and questions of responsibility and care, contrasting past tenderness with current distance. The tone blends intimate concern with casual observations of change.
An informal comment notes the prince of Wales as still fond of horses. The remark frames him as a noble mind capable of forgiving and forgetting.
A playful exchange about slow towns and bicycle police opens with chatter on writers chasing quotes. It recalls a birthday gift of fabric for a dress and ponders a satirical note on China’s wartime fashion and bobbed hair to ease tensions.
London harbors skepticism over English channel records after Dr. Dorothy Logan confessed to a false claim. Mercedes Gleitze, a London stenographer, telephoned editors to announce another cross channel attempt for Wednesday and invited newspaper observers to attest to her honesty.
More than 70,000 textbooks for public schools in California have just been printed at the state printing plant. A large saving was effected.
The Board of Education of New York City plans to create 1,298 new positions to handle anticipated increases in public elementary and high school registrations this year.
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