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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1921
Page
8
New York Commissioner Roy A. Haynes aims to curb liquor with a small force, but judges rebuke enforcement and press sentiment opposes prohibition. Bootleggers cheer, predicting higher prices and more stealthy sales as deputies arrive, while saloons may become cautious for a brief period.
A shipment of Tom Potter cigars is advertised at local drugstores and cafes. Notices include residents visiting relatives, staff changes, travel to Iowa City, and buy-sell promotions. The Fair Store stock sale and stone monument pricing are announced with September 14 start dates.
Local residents from Cleveland Ohio Fairfield Iowa Keota Des Moines Grinnell Muscatine What Cheer Ports mouth Madrid and other nearby areas are listed visiting relatives attending college and attending events. Mentions include Ed Gibson Jake Sheetz Isabel Lemmon Gwendolyn Long Donald Dwight and Earle Corbin among others with transportation by automobile and hospital or funeral attendances noted.
A flurry of visits marked the weekend with Katheryn Vogel, Laura Riggs, Valetta Hay, and others traveling between Keota Burlington Muscatine and Des Moines. A large store sale promises savings as 15 000 pairs go on sale Wednesday September 14.
Prohibition officials say bootleggers flood the market with drinks of varying quality from kerosene dyed with tobacco juice to champagne made from vinegar and carbolic acid. They believe a strong New York showing could push enforcement gains in New Jersey Maryland Pennsylvania and beyond.
The Boston Transcript fragment captures a tense exchange as a mother urges her son to steer away from a oncoming car while a passenger urges to strike it. The dialogue conveys panic, danger, and quick decision making during a roadside moment.
A heated exchange in dialogue features a soap box orator railing that all millionaire wealth is tainted and that money does not belong to him or others, while an unconvinced listener questions the claim.
A and B trade a brief joke about moving a clock upstairs. A asserts it cannot be done because it always suns down, a playful misstatement implying sunset or failure.
A slate of club events is listed with dates and hosts. Bible study next Monday with Mrs. Wilson. Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid with Mrs. Kephart. Navajo club at Mrs. Teeter's home. Rebekah club quilting. Senior W W G girls at Baptist church with Indian missionary. Kolah club with Mrs. Crawford. Albert M. Huff Camp No 26 meets Tuesday. American Legion Auxiliary meets Tuesday at 8 at the court house rest room. Fortnightly first home economics meets at Mrs. Marble’s Tuesday with October picnic. evening home economics changes of venue noted. West Chester M E Ladies Aid serves Wednesday with officer elections. Fortnightly Ladies’ Aid at East Main St hosting Tuesday. Pythian Sisters of West Chester meet Tuesday with important business. Lexington Aid Society to meet Friday with officers elected. Tri County Civil War veterans reunion Tuesday and campfire at night. North Cedar Community club picnic Saturday at Sunset Park.
The third section of the Home economies department of the Fort nightly club will hold its first meeting of the year tomorrow afternoon at the usual place.
A quip contrasts Henpeck’s home life with a battle scene as a Jugeler joke about his apartment nicknamed the Marne. The line implies frequent domestic strife every time he returns home.
A called meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of the Christian church will be held Thursday at the home of Mrs. Eliza Arnold. Come and join.
In Mason City the court was flooded when a still’s bottom broke loose spilling about 10 gallons of white mule on the floor. Attorneys and jurors joked through the disruption as officers described the large 50 gallon mash still seized earlier.
A classroom exchange centers on a boy named Bobby who admits taking James' apple. The teacher cites the Eighth Commandment as the moral frame, while Bobby quips that he chose to break the Eighth rather than the Tenth by coveting the fruit.
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