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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1927
Page
4
In a short poem Stevenson reflects on human toys in the streets as playthings wound up for many years. The speaker notes the crowded human world with springs of hunger hope and fear and questions why these toys exist or who watches the play.
Modern astronomy interprets light to reveal the universe. A New York Times correspondent notes astronomers over the past quarter century have deciphered these messages, yielding surprising facts about the total number of stars and their distribution.
A compact study highlights misuses and pronunciations of common words. It introduces ENCROACHMENT as invasion intrusion and illustrates a quotation about civilization yielding to encroachments.
A lecture summary from the American Philosophical Society notes Dr. C. G. Abbot and Dr. S. A. Mitchell discussing star numbers. It explains eliminating infinity, classifying stars by brightness, photographing faint stars, and deriving a total of about thirty billion stars in the universe.
The article describes a planned large scale Mennonite migration from Canada and the United States to 3,000,000 acres in the Paraguayan Chaco with government aid and a 4,000,000 acre set aside from the Casado estate. Brigadier General Samuel McRoberts leads fundraising and colonization efforts to secure religious liberty and autonomous pastoral life away from political interference. The plan envisions roughly 50,000 Mennonites in Canada and up to 175,000 in the U.S. relocating to the new lands over several years.
Tom Tyler stars as a mysterious prospector in Splitting The Breeze at the Fox Theatre. The West setting centers on Boulder Gulch amid frontier law breaches and Tyler’s puzzling disappearances as town life confronts hidden wealth and danger.
The head contains seventy seven muscles including seventy seven for facial features such as the eyes eyelids lips jaws tongue and eyebrows along with muscles for the larynx neck and scalp. It lists counts for muscles moving facial features the tongue the larynx and neck.
Teachers sent students home at 3 PM as temperatures neared 100 degrees. A group of boys seized the unexpected free time to practice football for a couple of hours after school.
Fragmented reflection notes a woman wooing memory of birth and age, a paradoxical dignity in aging, and a whimsical line about crossing fish with mosquitoes to secure a bite a minute. It also ponders child growth and a playful image of barking flies and bells on cattle.
A speaker questions her husband’s role as provider. She notes he must earn money and secure work to buy furniture, yet her disappointment grows as she laments missing nightly family moments and the strain on their children.
A collage of jokes and quips references balloon tires, a joking president term, a magician with a boy, a chemist probe, blue collar banter, a talking Indian, a catfish pun, a Washington tramp, and a touring car with a live goat, all dominated by light humor and social snapshots.
A clipped collage presents a quip filled mix of courtroom banter a joke about kiss and make up remarks about Marines and a domestic dispute notice. The fragment lists a lawyer cross examination a witness remarks a barber husband and a divorce petition from Ruth Jones to James B. Jones at 2702 Bristol Street.
The Krony Krew of Brighton met Monday evening at Mildred Woodford’s home five miles west of town. Donald Duke reports attending the state fair but returning lighter than when he left. Local families share visits and updates, including Woodford kin, Hart residence flowers, and home remodeling by the Wolcotts.
Mrs J M Pulver reports a correspondent notes a Strei gel return to Har per after work with Matti Wehr. Glenn Robertson and Ralph Kleese spent Sunday at Douds. John Wehr and family traveled to Ottumwa where Geneva entered St Joseph's academy for second year. Mrs William Carris of Keola visited her daughter Mrs Clarence Lynn. Orville Beckley and Everette Beckley of Delta visited Paul Sparks. Grandpa Schumacher travels to Muscatine to spend time with son John and family. Miss Marjorie Robertson attends Washington high school.
Over the Visited with home folks weekend Mr and Mrs Ben Senft of Palo and family rented the Bert Pierce farm and spent several days cleaning the place. Mr and Mrs Curtis Snyder and children visited Harve Banks Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Frank Conkity and son were Sunday callers at Matti Wehr's. The Paul Sparks family visited at parental Moody home in Seventy-Six on Tuesday.
The writing describes people with drooping eyelids as stubborn and easily offended. It characterizes them as clever yet unlikely to achieve much in life.
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