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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 28, 1929

Page

4

Not Faithful in Mammon A Righteous Question

A medieval fragment questions faithfulness to the unrighteous mammon and poses a double inquiry about commitment and moral duty. The dated note anchors the text to a liturgical or moralizing discourse.

Lest I Forget A Call to Charity and Moral Reflection

The piece blends a devotional plea to remember the needy with a critique of censorship in Boston. It cites a prayer to aid the poor and warn against judgment while noting the Watch and Ward Society’s enforcement and editorials on banning works like Strange Interlude.

Satan Boston Watch and Ward Society Eugene O'Neill America Wao Taos

Hives Remedies and Early Vaccination Methods

The text recalls childhood hives treatment with purgatives like castor oil and epsom salts to expel offending foods. It notes some people suffer frequent outbreaks and struggles to identify causes. It mentions an early vaccine approach attempted on small skin scratches.

Child Refuses Aid as Mother Demands Harvest Help

A 12 year old girl, sister to another child, refuses to help her mother who insists on gathering a handful of stems. The exchange includes a blunt retort from the girl and reflects family tension during a harvest task.

Clarence Haifley

Food allergies and diet management for hive reactions

The article explains how hives relate to food allergy and describes avoiding triggering proteins. It suggests a mild elimination diet, delaying forbidden items after symptoms subside, and using simple antiseptic washes like carbolic or benzoic acid solutions for immediate skin relief.

Proposals to Clean Up College Football Practices

A columnist urges thorough reform of college athletics citing the Carnegie report. He suggests ticketed access for players, players furnishing their own uniforms, box seat pricing, field upkeep fees paid by players, and teams supplying the football to end subsidizing athletics. The piece argues these changes would reduce favoritism, speed games, and clear gate receipts.

Notable Quotations On Society Power And Gender

A collection of brief quotes from public figures and writers on patriotism work female politics and social norms. The remarks cover constitutional fidelity workplace success perceptions of women in government and shifts in societal roles attributed to leaders and commentators.

Oddities and Local Gags Fill Midwest Columns

A playful column notes Premier MacDonald found a Lincoln bed joke in Lincoln, Washington misses a world series, a Marion Ohio preacher performs magic feats, and John Coolidges receive electric toasters. It mentions kids craving candy, a new school in Iowa, a freshman’s coat, Honolulu restaurant’s native dish bumuhumuunkuakaakapuas, and a girl nicknamed Exit reflecting relationship quirks.

Johns Hopkins University Incorporation and Opening Dates

Johns Hopkins University was incorporated on August 24 1867 and opened for instruction in September 1874 marking the establishment of its early educational program and institutional founding.

Johns Hopkins University

Today's word DIVERGENT in daily English lessons

Daily notes describe usage tips and misuses for words like We realized versus We obtained. The featured term DIVERGENT is defined as tending to spread out from one point with example sentence about opinions. The page promotes vocabulary growth by mastering a single new word daily.

Coolidge Mabel Willebrandt America Louis Arico Europe William F. Kenny Booth Tarkington Bex Alfred E. Smith Capitol Punishment C. J. Miller Kenyon Calvin Cooledge Graydon Stetson

Abe Martin Heroic Hat Quest Ends in Insane Asylum

Abe Martin reports Mrs. Lile Kite sought a hat and accessories for an egg plant outfit and was taken to the insane asylum today. The column adds a quip about pawpaws not being plentiful as a light aside.

Lile Kite

Brighton social notes and district K P convention update

A Brighton homemaking party surprised Mrs. Wilkins with a carend dish supper Tuesday. Attendees listed include Mrs. Kientz Lamanski Fleak Brier Tracy and others. District K P convention at Fairfield drew Tib Mortimore Homer Brown Frank Hudson Dean Johnson Floyd Spiel man Ralph Mann and Eugene Mann who aimed for Page rank. Brighton will host the 1980 district meeting as eight counties and nineteen lodges participate. A formal opening of the new Foris store is planned this Saturday with Alcorn and H L Spencer present. Several residents reported illnesses and travel notes including Ed Shepherds foot injury Donald Edmonds tonsillitis and George Madden’s improving condition. Mrs. Myrtle Anderson moved to the Wash LaMotte property.

H. L. Spencer Dave Rley Bessie Washington Ed Shepherd Donald Edmonds George Madden

Earliest American newspaper Public Occurrences 1690

The record notes a pre 1728 publication in the United States titled Public Occurrences issued in 1690 as a small quarto newspaper, marking an early instance of colonial press activity.

United States

Red Cross Provides Play and Comforts for Veterans

Red Cross workers arrange picnics theater visits dances and card parties for disabled veterans and sick service men in government hospitals nationwide. In 1929 national staff and chapters handled 12 104 mental cases monthly 20 352 recreation events and supported 38 987 men and families monthly.

Red Cross Washington White House Harding Hoover Veterans’ Bureau Army Navy National Red Cross Secretary of Labor Red Cross Grey Ladies James J. Davis

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