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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1927
Page
4
Local author Mary Roberts crafts a witty spoof inspired by a Gobi Desert discovery of dinosaur eggs. The verse playfully reflects on restoration efforts and the patient, comic wait for a human touch as the eggs and bones endure in shifting sands.
England’s population density is described as six hundred forty nine people per square mile, equating to about one person per acre, illustrating high concentration in the region.
An English lesson card highlights common mistakes and pronunciations. It covers misused phrases, mispronunciations such as banquet, and misspellings like fellow. It offers synonyms and a word study rule, with today's word INSPIRE defined as to stimulate or impart.
The piece notes high population density in England and Wales, a growing female majority aged 15 to 45, and emigration falling from 701,000 in 1913 to about 370,000 postwar, with 207,000 going to the British empire. It cites a population rise of about 2,000,000 between 1911 and 1921 and a current annual increase near 250,000, plus more pensioners and rising poor relief.
The Iowa farming community is praised for resilience and thrift. Dante Pierce counters alarmist views, noting 400000 visitors to the Iowa State Fair and large crowds at farm lectures and horse racing. He argues per capita wealth outpaces some industrial states and lauds Iowa’s prosperity and beauty.
Poem by V. Y. Dallman laments rising costs as frost ends summer. A father fears taxes and high prices for pumpkins, coal, and potatoes, while grocer prices and empty coal bin loom over family hardship.
Local church and fraternal groups announce meetings and social events. Womans Missionary Society gathers at the Presbyterian church with a pot luck supper and program. Rebekah and Pythian groups hold Friday meetings. 4-H Club meets at Havre schoolhouse with a 2 pm business session. Mrs Hoffman lectures on Negro Music. Prosperity Encampment dance for Odd Fellows and families. So and Sew Club hosts at the Ferguson home. candy social and play What Happened at Brents at the 76 Center school with boxes for tea cher Dorothy Allen.
The By-the-way column resumes after a temporary editor swap as the editor urges former helpers to contribute. A Detroit Medbury clip on road woes is cited, with quips about travel misadventures, a Jimtown baseball game won by single women, and a self-deprecating note on filling the page.
Emil Jannings stars in The Way of All Flesh at the Fox Theatre in a compact, human dramatic saga. The film presents sacrifice and temptation in a simple home life, emphasizing powerful acting over large-scale spectacle.
Ade line Fitch files in district court alleging cruel and inhuman treatment by Gail W. Fitch, orchestra leader and son of wealthy hair tonic magnate F. W. Fitch, in Des Moines. The suit marks the start of a divorce action filed October 20.
A powerful sermon on human frailty frames The Way of All Flesh with Emil Jannings as the man who ends his life to shield his family from shame. The supporting cast Belle Bennett Phylis Haver Donald Keith and others deliver precise performances under Paramount’s careful casting.
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