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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1921
Page
7
Community columns recount sermons, church suppers, and a busy round of visits and shucking corn. People from Westchester to Wayland attend events, travel for family visits, and report on local church activities, fairs, and high school lectures.
Oct 24 Crawfordsville reports visiting Ottumwa residents Henry McCoy and family as well as Washington visitors, with Nina Spangler returning from Martinsburg. An auto crash near Hesseltine's injured two women and a man slightly while a Burlington doctor and companions were uninjured enough to return home after care. A large Rally Day program at the Methodist church featured solos, talks, and recitations, with Miss Mabel Crooks and local families noted for weekend visits and church activities.
Miss Bertha Wilson of Wellman died Thursday at University Hospital Iowa City after three weeks illness. She would have turned thirteen this Sunday. She was daughter of Mrs. John Cranza and left behind a mother, father, three sisters, and one brother.
Mercury the swiftest traveler among planets moves through space at a rate of thirty miles per second according to the report.
Cecil B. De Mille's The Affairs of Anatol, featuring Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson, is praised for its witty subtitles by Jeanie Macpherson. The film blends a sharp marriage and divorce theme with sympathetic comedy, enhanced by Paul Iribe art and Paramount quadri color.
An advertisement claims Mayr's Wonderful Remedy cures stomach and intestinal ailments. A couple recounts how a wife improved after four months, aided by a bribe of a dress, with one dose said to clear up complexion and restore appetite and allay intestinal inflammation. Lemmon's Pharmacy promotes the remedy with a money refund guarantee.
John Rider a Linn county farmer married his former wife’s mother Mrs Julia Davis after divorcing his wife. The couple wed at Marion and live near Alburnett Iowa. Rider had been divorced from his then wife months earlier and now becomes stepfather to his former wife and stepfather and grandfather to his own children.
A brief on cultivating a balanced mindset that values practical sense over humor while recognizing humor can aid perception. It emphasizes using wit judiciously to illuminate ideas, not shield them, and to avoid unhelpful sneers.
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