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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1929
Page
4
A 1929 Bible Thought for Today reflects Luke 8 25 with weather and autumn imagery. It includes a fall poem Bliss Carmen and a humorous family anecdote from Faye Lambert of Washington Iowa. The piece also criticizes alcohol’s damage to health and work and questions Tribune fairness and moral soul.
A reader is told Jupiter, the fifth largest planet, appears as a golden star in the northeast night sky. It is 1,300 times as large as Earth, about 418.6 billion miles away, with nine moons and a ten hour day. Jupiter’s year lasts about 12 Earth years and its gravity would weigh a 140 pound man about 271 pounds.
A brief excerpt of Stevenson’s verse expressing a life of simple joys and freedom on the road. The speaker rejects wealth and companionship, seeking only nature, travel, and the road ahead as enduring contentment.
Dr Bevans told a medical congress in Chicago that half of U S doctors hold liquor licenses while about 80 000 do not. He noted Presbyterian Hospital has not issued whiskey in its drug room and treats over 12 900 patients yearly.
A collection of verse and anecdotes filled with family pride and rural humor. The unsigned envelope piece reflects on a daughter’s homeward return and a mother’s plainspoken virtues, while other notes poke fun at politics and local life with playful satire.
Master Sydney Hugh Holcomb stays with grandparents Mr and Mrs W J Orr while his mother and sister Ruth recover in hospital. Mr and Mrs John Walton visit from Clay Walton home and plan to spend winter in Muscatine. Mrs Ella Holloway of Fairfield visits brother Clay Walton. Ernest Meeks family and Mrs Nannia Kilgore and son Marford of Ainsworth visit Will Wallace home. Charles Atkinson ill with intestinal flu but improving. Lester Marion ships hogs this morning. John Mays drives truck ding.
Adam remarks on a very short suit and odd ideas found while washing hands. A teacher quizzes Willie about dogs, framing a joint gift from James and David. Willie answers four, noting he already has two dogs at home.
A collage of quips and captions from old newspapers. It highlights a chameleon joke about service, a boxing hat jab, an accident insurance quip, a firm placeholder about bad habits, a car parking quip, a tiny kitchenette joke, and various portraits of famous figures like Michelangelo and Admiral Farragut in a rapid-fire humor montage.
Daily lessons present a long list of misused phrases and mispronunciations. It highlights fidelity as the preferred term for faithfulness and loyalty and cites an example sentence.
The column recalls old notions of alcohol as a disease and jokes about hypocrisy when saloons thrived. It contrasts the speaker’s memory of acute alcoholism being labeled a complication of diseases with the rival’s prosperity.
A seaside tale shows small waves repeatedly climbing a sand heap until it disappears. A young sea gull mocks them but learns patience and later admits the waves succeeded by not giving up. The waves glitter in sunlight as they retreat and rise again.
Florence Walton shows how to transform paper bags into a family of playful figures. Create Sonny Sackin with a face, arms, legs, and a head using twists, cotton stuffing, and string. A second bag becomes a family pet with a head and four legs, as illustrated in the pictures.
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