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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1928
Page
4
Trust in God amid warnings of woe and human strength. The excerpt urges turning from reliance on horses and power to seek the Holy One of Israel and the Lord. This devotional fragment reflects biblical admonitions against trusting in worldly might.
Washington county faces a special proposition on a one mill levy to fund bovine tuberculosis eradication via the area plan. The measure aims to test and remove infected cattle, reducing human and animal disease, with federal and state aid to offset costs.
A Cleveland press style letter argues for reopening and expanding saloons. It mocks temperance groups, extols alcohol as social glue, and attacks limits on hours and drinks. The piece satirically envisions a nation restored to wide open drinking and downplays prohibition as elitist. It cites social scenes, costs of drunkenness, and calls for pervasive saloon culture with minimal restrictions.
A statement from John Norrell & Co president Henry Foster claims packers pay a 10 percent bonus for hogs from counties accredited free of cattle tuberculosis. Since May 1925 Wapello County hog shipments have earned the firm 40142.82 dollars, underscoring health and economic benefits amid a national campaign.
A collage of political recollections and verse hints at past torch parades in the Blaine and Logan era, with stray poems, a censor board note, oblique jokes, and local notices about a sick neighbor in Bayly's Neck. The page blends satire, arts, and brief community updates in a single unreadable mosaic.
A fragment lists poisons and their medical uses. Arsenic is noted as helpful to doctors, carbolic acid valuable during operations, opium praised as a pain killer, and belladonna aids the eye specialist.
The record notes Sault Ste. Marie founded in 1608 as the first permanent Michigan settlement by an explorer, followed by Mackinaw. Detroit is listed as the third, established by Cadillac under French authority.
In a terse regional note, residents say Lester Hanger is thrilled to hear his wife has run off. The chatty bulletin hints that the town’s political discourse has narrowed to a clash between gambling schemes and anti minority prejudice, reflecting local tensions.
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