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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1920
Page
4
Rest air and sunshine are urged as best medicines. Health education in schools yields lasting blessings and longer lives. Public safety in daily travel requires continued effort to balance the rising death toll from cars with preventive education.
Salina Kansas residents recover three $20 gold coins from the bottom lands along Gypsum Creek near F. W. Herr after this week’s flood. This brings to fourteen the number of $20 coins found there in recent years. local lore recalls a cowboy killed as he lost his pockets full of gold at the same spot. Local boys search the area for additional coins.
Poem recounts a summer sea trip where the speaker catches a cold amid coastal scenes. He jokes about sneezing companions, blue pills, and changed beauty of the shore while lamenting his own ailment and longing for others to join in the sneeze and song.
Gifford Pinchot, former forestry chief and Progressive leader, praised Senator Harding on forestry policy and conservation. He declared support for a Republican victory to protect national resources from “southern reactionaries” and improve federal stewardship.
The ticket includes Warren G. Harding for president Calvin Coolidge for vice president Albert R. Cummins for U S senator N E Kendall for governor John Hammill for lieutenant governor Walter C Ramsey for secretary of state Glenn C Haynes for state auditor W J Burbank for state treasurer Ben J Gibson for attorney general Fred P Woodruff for railroad commissioner Supreme Court judges Silas M Weaver F F Faville Lawrence DeGraff District congressman W F Kopp representative C F Letts A L Griffith for auditor Washington Harry McCall for treasurer J D Glasgow for clerk of district court Sheriff Charles M Denison recorder Belle Rice county attorney T A Michels coroner George W Hay board of supervisors A J Morgan J W Parrow C O Dayton hospital board Marsh W Bailey George W Reed.
A Baltimore era note pairs a dead letter joke with a quip about music as the soul’s language and jazz as profanity, citing the Boston Transcript and Providence Tribune as sources for tongue in cheek views on memory, letters, and culture.
The London Mail presents a reader question asking whether a zebra is black with white stripes or white with black stripes. The note frames the age-old zebra color paradox as a curious illustration of perception.
The Memphis Scimitar laments the end of the Bourbon South era, noting in quotation that Alas and Black denied us a return to those days, reflecting on shifting fortunes and historical memory.
A Jugend Munich publication quotes a woman declaring she will guard her heart against men yet would accept governance by two or three suitors. The remark frames romance and political metaphor in playful terms.
A collage of light humor cites lines on marriage and relationships from the Boston Transcript and London Opinion, plus a quip about dining with a half portion of duck from Success Magazine. The excerpts showcase era voice and witty public-sphere banter.
Laundry owners from six counties including Muscatine Washington Jefferson Henry Des Moines and Lee will assemble in Muscatine on September 14 for a meeting of the state association group seven. A. J. Magnus will preside with officers and L N A representatives addressing the gathering.
The Rt. Rev. Edward Arthur Temple bishop of North Texas is slowly recovering at St Luke's hospital from a crippling hiccoughs attack that threatened his life. He became ill on a ship returning from the Lambeth conference in England.
Mrs. William P. Smith of Los Angeles credits Tanlac with a full recovery after two years of severe indigestion stomach trouble and near starvation. She gained thirteen pounds regained appetite and says she now feels well and would tell others about the medicine sold by Sherman Bros. Washington Mac Gugin Drug Co. Wellman and other leading druggists.
The group reports a wide charity program including jail hospital street house to house and mission work. Major and Mrs Sneath lead at 101% N Marion Ave phone 417 Groen.
Henry Lane Wilson denounces President Wilson as an autocrat of secretive methods in Ogdensburg New York. He attacks Wilsons diplomacy and league of nations while praising Cox and criticizing the administration as wasteful indecisive and hostile to American sovereignty.
Eastborne arrivals and departures include No 12 Express at 4 02 am and No 30 Lo Passe at 6 10 pm with No 50 Lo Pass at 6 35 pm and No 80 Lo Frt at 9 45 am Westbound times show No 11 Express at 12 26 am and No 49 Lo Pass at 6 10 pm along with No 29 Lo Pass and No 87/89 Frt services. Washington Branch lists Local Passenger arrivals 9 40 pm and 6 30 pm and freight and passenger movements corrected to July 1 1920 with multiple daily services and notes on exceptions.
Regular meetings announced for Washington Lodge No. 26 and Cyrus Chapter No. 13 in monthly Friday nights. Bethlehem Commandery No. 45 and Washington Chapter No. 98 list their schedules, with officers named. Damascus Shrine No. 10 notes last Thursday sessions and Covenant Lodge No. 101 invites visiting members to Tuesday gatherings.
Report notes honesty as a common virtue among many Chinese workers with shops left unguarded during brief absences. Customers reportedly enter, choose items, and pay by leaving money on the counter, with prices clearly marked.
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