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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1923
Page
7
Announcements show multiple halloween social events and meetings at homes churches and halls. Items note dates October 31 and November 1 2 7 13 including contacts hosts and activities such as pumpkin pies costumes and box suppers across local groups like Rebekahs Bethel Presbyterian Missionary Society and D A R with church and club affiliations.
The Standard Bearers host a Halloween party Tuesday at 7 20 p m in the Methodist church social hall, with masked attendees invited. Other notices include club meetings with Mrs Will Sickles and Mrs Chas McKinstry, a Royal Arch degree conclave, and a Christ Church mission society meeting.
The O C s will meet with Mrs. James Daniels of West Chester on Thursday afternoon November 1 2012.
The New Haven school will host a program and a box social Friday evening November 2. The public is invited to attend and bring boxes. Bessie M. Smith.
A box supper and candy social are set for Friday evening November 2 at Cedar Center school ten miles northwest of Washington and two miles west of the Prairie Flower church. Pupils will present a play "In Pun kin' Crick" at eight p m. for attendees.
The W. R. C. women collect fruit and jelly for the Soldier's Home at Marshalltown. Donations must be left at the G A R hall by Saturday. If unable to send, call Mrs. E. V. Simons at 297 Black or Mrs. Al Fields at 760 Green.
The Wo man’s Foreign Missionary group of the Methodist church will meet at 603 S 3rd Ave with Mrs T E Barker on Friday November 2 at 2 30 led by Mrs E E Stutsman. The Children’s Missionary meeting is in the church on Saturday November 3 at 2 30 p m. The lakes of the Baptist church hold their annual Dutch market on Thursday November 8. W R C regular meets Saturday at 2 with instructor Minnie Laggdale from Ottumwa. T F KE club meets Friday with Mrs T C Davis.
The Rebekahs announce a Hal lowe en social and program at the 1. C. O. F. hall on Wednesday evening October 31 inviting attendance. The W F M S of the Ainsworth M E church will meet with Mrs Minnie Jackson Thursday Nov 1 at 2 p m.
Ainsworth Chapter C. E. S. holds its regular meeting on Friday November 2 at 7 36 with initiation and a report from Grand Chapter Division No 2 will serve.
A witty household vignette depicts a wife amused by her grown children grumbling about the downtown food options they must eat, highlighting humor in midcentury dining debates.
A terse critique of citizens who neglect self reflection and communal duty, warning that disregard and complacency corrode social responsibility and collective progress. The piece laments widespread apathy and urges personal accountability.
A brief quotation from Solomon warns that repeated reproach hardens a person and leads to sudden, irreversible ruin. The compact excerpt explores moral consequence, emphasizing discipline and accountability.
A Louisville Courter Journal remark asserts culture offers a productive pastime for bored independents, noting ample azylea in such engagement.
Statistics show 199000 people in the country died from cancer in the last year highlighting the disease's deadly impact.
Washington county rural letter carriers gathered at the Legion hall in Brighton for a meeting on October 27. Attendees from several towns included W. J. Allen, Allen Wintermeyer, Frank Clark, Prody Borkoski, and many others. The group selected Washington as the next meeting site for December 29 1923 and invited members to Mt Pleasant on November 8 for a gathering. Refreshments were served by the Brighton post office staff with help from local volunteers.
Des Moines October report shows domestic help scarce as stigma and inland location limit supply. Mrs. S Neufeld of the federal employment service notes maids face low status despite $10 to $18 weekly pay with room and board.
Promotes gentle bowel and liver action to clear blood and purify the system. Claims provide quick relief from bad breath without calomel’s after effects. Advertises 15 and 30 cent sizes with the olive color tablets and a personal testimonial.
The Embargo Act passed December 22, 1807 under Jefferson aimed to halt all ships in port and require US vessels home. It faced criticism as ruinous and was repealed in March 1808. A second embargo in April 1812 was also repealed after efforts.
A professional baseball figure notes that educated minds seek faults and correct them while uneducated minds tend to hide them. He asserts the educated progress faster and farther.
The throne of Queen Hatafus from ancient Egypt, dating to 1600 years before Christ, is an ebony carved chair now kept among the British Museum’s treasured possessions.
Nature Magazine explains ostrich feather markets with plucking or wing-cut methods. The annual feather crop is worth about fifty to sixty dollars, and birds yield valuable plumes roughly every seven months, though some breeders harvest once yearly for better quality.
The article notes that Goethe spent about fifty years composing Faust with annual work and revisions. The final section was finished just before his death in 1882, signaling the poem's completion after persistent effort over decades.
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