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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1929
Page
4
A pointed Bible verse from Luke 17 6 8 8 recounts the Apostles asking Jesus to increase their faith and Jesus replying that faith as small as a mustard seed can command a tree to be uprooted and planted in the sea with obedience.
A poem recounts a son learning to plough with his father in a field where wild roses reclaim the land. The moment of turning the furrow and the thrush’s song evoke schoolboy courage and the forming of a man. The speaker recalls the day his effort met the earth and his head rose with pride.
Guy Carlton from Humeston writes Washington editor praising Washington as The Cleanest City in Iowa. He recalls travels through Fairfield and Albia, notes clean store windows and neat town, and urges ongoing city cleanup to keep the slogan. He plans to return to work after recovery.
A mosaic of offbeat remarks targets politics and society from Georgia to Illinois. Jests on census work, prehistoric skulls, real estate, Yale Yap immigration, and public figures mix with quips from Henry Ford to Bernard Shaw while a Wrigley Park gum gag caps the page.
A Washington man sits to hear a radio lecture on Indians. He delays tending the fire to hear the talk and finally the speaker signs off with Good night kids inviting them to hear what happened to Willie Woodchuck after meeting Tommy Turtle on the air tomorrow night.
Over Washington last night between two and five eight flocks of wild geese passed with their sirens blaring. A prior fog two years ago brought a large flock down low enough for locals to see, suggesting a similar sighting may have occurred again this year. Mrs. Cox vouches for the tale.
The passage teaches a daily vocabulary unit on the word illuminative meaning tending to illuminate or clarify. It notes common misusages and pronunciations and provides an example sentence about a theory of life that became illuminative as it continued.
A speaker recalls eight bunches with the largest last, dismissing any events from five hours earlier. The narrator ends with a comment about sleep and a personal stance on what they would vouch for.
The Womans Missionary society of Bethel Presbyterian church meets with Mrs James Gray on Wednesday Oct 30. A Halloween social at the I O O F hall Tuesday evening after the lodge. Rebekahs bring pie. Halloween program and pre social at Spread Eagle school house Nov 1 at 8 o clock. The Pythian Sisters host a benefit card party Oct 30 at 8 pm. Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters invite bridge or 500 players and families. Krops club meets Wednesday with Mrs Neill Trotman. Havre school box supper and candy social Friday Nov 1, teacher Faye Jones.
In Columbus Junction on Sunday Mrs. Charles Giffey died at home. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1 30 p m at Lone Tree with the German Lutheran pastor of Muscatine officiating and burial at Iowa City.
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