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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1928
Page
4
A Times era editorial stresses that a reliable, well supervised connection to the Isthmus of Panama is a global public necessity. It contends the United States must manage the territory between to safeguard the canal and ensure world security and U.S. protective interests.
John W. O Leary of the Republican National Committee reports that Herbert Hoover has won the fascination of Middle West schoolboys. Boys and mothers rally to Hoover as a clean engineer hero, sending pennies to dollars to support his presidential bid, as two Aurora twins deliver a dollar to his funds in Chicago.
A long contemplated four track superhighway would span the nation connecting east and west by motor vehicle. The plan includes a wide right of way with five subsidiary lines to southern connections and would bypass towns over 2,500 in population. While surveys are not yet underway Congress debates the project as nations eye expansion, with broad implications for travel, defense, and industry across states.
A fragment from a periodical page covers language notes and quips on misused words. It includes examples of mispronunciations and misspellings, plus short humor items and questions about language and everyday life.
By The Way reports a heated political poetry contest where judges delay deciding the winner. Mr Macon debates meter forms while readers may vote if the deadlock persists. The piece links Hoover support and a fanciful tale of contributions and gifts to the Hoovers, ending with cheers for Hoover.
A jumble of clipped lines and voices from a staged sketch or cartoon style piece. It includes a lawyer promising a fair settlement for a couple, a bellboy or bosun remark, and exchanges about marriage by various officials. The tone is rowdy and satirical with scattered dialog tags and misread names.
Funeral services for Mrs Walter Stoutner will be held Friday afternoon at two in the Christian church Keota. Interment will be in Keota cemetery. She was born Hagst daughter of Mr and Mrs Will Hagist of Seventy Six township. She died in an Ottumwa hospital Tuesday evening October 16 after illness. She is survived by a husband and several children. An obituary will follow after the service.
A stranded troupe faces danger when thieves led by Ben Tuttle raid their set. Yor Mix and Natalie Kingston play a duo on the run as Sheriff Tom Blake hunts the criminals. Philo McCullough, Al John, Fred Gamble, and Gene Forde support directing by the team.
The Flying Mail arrives at New Graham theatre Friday and Saturday. Al Wilson stars in a fast paced action packed film filled with plane stunts and comic moments as crooks elude capture until a dramatic finale. Mason Noel directs a cast led by Kathleen Myers Carmelita Geraghty and Harry von Meter.
A fragment notes a planetoid event tied to Wilson and an accompanying descent described as perilous. The text references a parachute descent and a notable difference in danger level compared with a prior ment narrative. The wording is garbled and uncertain.
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