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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1922
Page
7
Sept 5 New Haven reports the start of school with Hazel Sutton from Washington as teacher for fifteen pupils. The item notes local visits, county fair travel, ongoing church meetings, and various residents' activities across New Haven and nearby areas.
Mrs Worth Noecker began teaching at Fairview last Monday. Ezra Smith is injured after a 16 foot fall causing a broken dislocated elbow and unconsciousness. Fr Eunice Scott starts at Prairie Flower Monday with Lucelle Shalla at Cedar Center and Snider at Pleasant Plains and Hasty at Jackson Center. A Chicago bound child returns with a “fresh air” party. Earl Smith shells corn and prepares for silo filling. Frank Page moves to Hedrick to own property. John Rittenhouse and wife visited the James Nelson home in Keota.
Crawfordsville Sept 4 local social scene includes Mr and Mrs B B Martin returning from North English with child, Grace Lease starting home economics teaching in Brighton, Lois Bauer from West Chester, Gladys Strohman from New London, Bessie Busby from Washington beginning school duties. Charlotte Carson of Washington visits Wallace Carson family. several households share a Cone Lake picnic. Charley McCleary of Adel Iowa visits town.
Chester West Chester reports a busy start with school opening and full staff. A first airplane visit drew crowds while residents praise new electricity and city lamps. County extension clubs showcased 4 300 exhibits at community fairs and 6 000 at county district and state fairs per USDA data.
Jersey City Sept 4 Gov Edward Edwards of New Jersey a vestryman and teetotaler expects to secure the Democratic nomination for United States senator with no opposition. He says he is ready to win whether Frelinghuysen or George L Record are the Republican nominees and notes the state is normally Republican with a large plurality to overcome.
Jim Lone Reed, a Black man, arrested for striking Miss Violet Wood, 19, daughter of Rev. John H. Wood of Rome, Ga., over the head with an iron. He was taken from Sheriff Camp and lynched in Athens, Georgia, on September 4.
A strong earthquake struck Taitoku in northern Formosa on September 4, causing considerable damage and fear of loss of life. Advices from Tokyo report widespread ruin and uncertain casualties.
Gen Francisco Murguia once aide to Carranza crosses from Texas into Mexico to start a new revolutionary movement. Obregon government reports Murguia forces were beaten in the first clash, signaling early hostilities in the new struggle.
The piece compares a wartime trip through six European nations with crossing U S state borders Iowa Illinois Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania New York, highlighting customs delays language differences and wars of long standing. It argues Central Europe is a patchwork of sovereignties with frequent sovereignty changes and many “germs of war.”
Dayton and Boyer recount a long trip across Illinois toward the Indiana line stressing the need for paved roads. They describe detours and a bank alarm incident in Donovan and praise the Dixie and Lincoln highways for smooth surfaces, wide lanes, and fuel savings. They note corn crops, highway construction, and heavy coal and train traffic along the routes.
Mrs Hermgrr Lona of Larwill Indiana describes four years of fatigue nervous dizziness and right side pains. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports renewed energy and ability to care for her three children and farm duties. The ad urges others with similar symptoms to try the remedy.
The writer notes extensive paving along routes from Lexington to the Dixie highway and observes how paved roads lure travelers away from home. A stop in Donovan, Illinois, proves elusive to locals, as few know its location despite its six miles off the Dixie highway.
Amusements review hails Norma Talmadge in Smilin' Through a First National feature at Fox Theatre. The critic calls it her best film to date and a new classic, with Talmadge delivering dual roles as Monyeen and Kathleen in a tragedy of love and revenge.
John Carteret and Windham Standing lead as two men tied to Miss Talmadee with Harrison Ford supporting Kenneth Wayne and Jeremiah Warne. Alec B. Francis Glenn Hunter Grace Griswold Miriam Battista and Eugene Lockhart also deliver solid performances under Sidney Franklin's deft direction.
The production of 6 277 000 halea of cotton and the seed that would have been gained from that amount were prevented by the boll weevil in 1921 according to computations from USDA using estimates provided by thousands of crop reporters.
Scientists note an unusual cold spell around Alaska's major volcanoes and warn the calm may signal a potential eruption as witnessed at Mount Katmai eight years earlier, threatening a dramatic peak blowoff.
The Rockefeller Institute is studying yellow fever causes in Mexico and a special commission has been appointed to gather data on work by other medical societies and institutes operating in fever districts.
An advertisement claims Mayr's Wonderful Remedy cures gas, stomach and liver trouble by removing mucus and reducing inflammation. It asserts a five month course improved health, with readers urged to try it through Lemmon's Pharmacy and leading druggists, backed by a money refund guarantee.
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