This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1922
Page
5
Iowa public utilities railroads and large buyers are purchases muted as state fuel administrator Webster notes. Illinois coal sells up to 12.10 per ton with little demand while northwest states consider wartime conservation proclamations. National production nears normal yet transport limits keep some regions tight.
Bernadete a sleepy Spoon River village awakens as a film location drawing tourists and cameras. The town lacks modern utilities with mills still grinding while strangers arrive, changing daily life and unsettling its quiet pace.
A syndicate led by Col. W. G. Dows Ike Smith and Sen W G Haskell with H W Havner has purchased the Republican and Times from L A Brewer. They will assume ownership Oct 1 with a new editor tied to the state university journalism school. Price not disclosed. The papers were consolidated last fall with only Sunday edition remaining for the morning issue.
A Cincinnati telegram from Ernest F. Heasley reports an agreement between Henry Ford representatives and the American Export and Inland Coal Company to ship up to 4,000,000 tons of coal to Ford plants. Simmons and Moore authorize rapid loading, with shipments to begin immediately and possibly increase to 00 cars daily.
In Grundy Center on September 11 the Grundy county fair opened with Col. Smith Brookhart Republican nominee for senator delivering a broadside on Wall Street and the fed eral reserve. He noted his opponent’s shortcomings while praising fair free attractions drawing near record gate receipts of about $2,000. Horse races were absent and the merry-go round was eliminated, though ball games and other free attractions offered entertainment.
Clyde Monroe, an employee of the Register and Buxton Construction Co, died at St Francis hospital from injuries after a steel ceiling beam swung loose on the fourth floor of Allen Memorial Hospital. He was a bricklayer, a former American Legion cook in the 168th infantry.
Four men Fred Campbell Alva Kisor Jim Kagan and Red Wilson died when a Rock Island passenger train struck their Ford at a crossing north of What Cheer. Albert Wymore survived as investigators noted possible liquor impairment and the wreck occurred amid What Cheer Fair traffic. The engineer Dailey and fireman Cain faced the crash as their second fatal incident in years.
Reinbeck on September 11 opened a new 225000 consolidated school. The larger student body required five new teachers bringing total faculty to twenty two. A new athletics mathematics science teacher joins the high school staff and a commercial teacher heads the new course. The junior high combines sixth to eighth grades in the old high school building with four teachers added.
A Cardinal Newman quotation reflects that aging can hold bright joys. The text likens life’s later years to a final draught where pearls may lie at the bottom instead of dregs, suggesting value and insight in old age.
Mt. Pleasant Sept. 11 Mrs. Ralph Crane a prominent young matron lies critically ill at her East Washington Street home after drinking Lysol. A social leader and hostess, she suffered a nervous breakdown previously. She became unconscious Thursday morning after ingesting Lysol but regained consciousness later that day, though her condition remains grave.
The Fairfield Ledger Journal endorses Andrew Gump for Congress as a candidate of the people. It praises his heart, mind, and 100 percent pro people stance while noting his modesty, thrift, and family influences. The piece mentions his uncle’s Australia connection and a breach of promise suit, as well as his wife’s support and a recent vacation in the lake region.
The text details a proposed Iowa measure authorizing a $22,000,000 bond issue to fund a veterans bonus for those who served between April 6, 1917 and November 11, 1918. It outlines bond terms, eligibility, administration by a Bonus Board, taxpayer funding via annual levies, and a 1922 public vote deadline for passage.
The passage notes a friend’s wife Mrs Keyes forming a women’s Gump-for-Congress club. It predicts growing voter enthusiasm and says the time will come when citizens’ voices ring through the halls of the national capitol.
At the forty-seventh triennial convention in Portland the bishops and deputies review three years of Protestant Episcopal work in the United States and outline plans for the next triennium. Speakers include Bishops Burleson Tucker Brent and John Stewart Bryan. The council president Bishop Gaylor reports on missions education finance social service and publicity and notes clergy salary increases totaling 2 415 000 for 1920 1921.
In two and a half years presiding bishops and council reduced the inherited deficit from 920246 to 567291 and paid the initial nationwide campaign expense. General projects for 1920 quotas rose 117 percent from 1919 while 1921 quotas showed only a slight drop from the prior year.
The piece notes hop scotch in ancient Rome with diagrams on pavements and speculates that Julius Caesar Nero and other emperors may have played the game, linking modern street play to a very old pastime.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.