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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1921
Page
4
A Des Moines bulletin warns that boys who neglect neck washing teeth cleaning or baths will face lower grades and be deemed bad citizens. The piece mocks the rule as tyranny and urges boys to resist while humorously recalling historic figures.
A poem in cheerful tones contrasts aging and vitality as the speaker limps through town. Despite aching bones, false teeth and truss misplacements, he proclaims youthfulness and delight, while onlookers insist he remains lively and hopeful in the face of decay.
Gran man Bud jokes that Hays protects his petunias unlike Burleson while Ike Mopps returns to horse and buggy life seeking work in this fragment from a regional page.
The passage argues that city and farm economies depend on each other for prosperity. If farmers can't buy or buyers falter, factories close, jobs vanish, food demand drops, banks tighten, and overall credit worsens. It urges shared responsibility, broader credit for agriculture, and affordable farm equipment to stimulate purchases.
Several hundred delegates from 660 posts gather in Spirit Lake for Iowa’s Legion convention. About 39 000 members are represented with monthly state growth near 1000 and last year’s increase around 14 000. Key speakers include H. E. Nary Commander MacNider Governor Kendall and J C Lewis.
Louis XIV’s passion for Louise de la Valliere is portrayed as his only genuine love. The queen’s anger and minister Fouquet’s downfall followed as Louise shaped court life, bore four children, and eventually retired to a convent in 1674 after fifteen years as the king’s mistress.
Delegates gather for the American Legion department convention ended Saturday night. Officers and delegates will be elected, the next state convention site chosen, and district caucuses held. Various speeches and reports will frame the day’s business including vocational education and Red Cross updates.
A Polk County officer Winnifred Robb a parson army chaplain and sheriff will launch a 1922 campaign for Congress in Iowa seventh district at a Democratic picnic on a sheriff owned bathing beach. Democrats count on women voters and the American Legion to defeat Republican C C Dowell this autumn.
Before 1910 the pink boll worm, a pest devastating cotton crops, was unknown in Egypt. The note marks its emergence as a significant agricultural concern for Egyptian farmers and may hint at the pest’s introduction or spread in the region.
George D. Shaw of Springfield Massachusetts says Tanlac made him feel twenty five years younger and stronger after fifteen years of indigestion. He weighed 117 pounds before treatment and now stands at 143 pounds, claiming his stomach is sound and he could eat army rations again. He urges others, especially veterans of the Sixties, to try Tanlac. Ad notes Sherman Brothers Pioneer Drug Store in Washington and local druggists carry Tanlac.
Manilla Iowa plans a large public pool on an 18 lot site 666 by 200 feet and will include baseball and picnic grounds plus a fine park. A women’s committee led by Mrs Loomis and Mrs McCracken will assist funding efforts and organize support for the project.
The North Pacific seal herd once totaled about 2,500,000 animals but pelagic sealing nearly wiped them out, drastically reducing the population and prompting concern among wildlife officials and researchers.
A timetable lists local and express trains with numbers and routes. Local and freight trains run daily except Sundays with specific west and east service days. Agent H W Russel notes schedules and local pass connections.
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