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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1922
Page
3
Booster week for the Sunday school of the Presbyterian church features a schedule of meetings and a drive for new members. Activities include a personal work day, a membership picnic, a mass meeting with Charles W. Wade as speaker, and a church prayer service.
Inclement weather cancels the band concert planned for this evening in Central Park. Officials rescheduled the event, with details forthcoming.
A local newspaper note advertises Washington Cleaners promising thorough, bright garment care with emphasis on quality and reliability.
Elmer Mason again caught the end of his right hand finger in a corn sheller yesterday, severing the fingertip. The incident marks a repeated accident as he endures the injury.
Howard A. Anderson announces the opening of a new battery station on North Marion Avenue opposite the post office in a new front built by E G Mason. The station will handle Philadelphia battery with drive-in service and opens immediately. W E White of the Philadelphia concern finalized the agency arrangements. Anderson has worked with H D Smith in the battery department for about a year and a half and is well qualified.
The Graham Theatre fills with an audience for a program by the McElhinney Furniture Company featuring a Brunswick phonograph demonstration and a lecturer outlining the machine's features. Two comedy films accompany the show and entertain attendees.
Advertisement from Iowa Gas and Electric Co prompts readers to consider 1 Little heat options instead of a furnace fire, suggesting inquiries about gas or electric heaters for home warmth.
The Washington Telephone Co. plans to place cables underground in the north part of the city at an estimated cost of 26,600 dollars. Aerial and open wire lines serving city patrons north of the tracks and rural lines will be replaced, with 25,000 feet of cables of 52 to 868 conductors. Conduit has arrived, work has begun, and progress continues as weather allows. equipment updates will follow at the central office next winter.
Yesterday evening the city council met in regular session and handled routine business. Bins were allowed and no major actions were taken. formal acceptance of the new paving remains pending with action expected shortly.
The Ladies Bible Class of the Presbyterian church will meet Friday afternoon at 2:30 led by Mrs H E Case with full attendance requested. The Flyer-de-Lis club ladies host husbands at a 6:30 dinner Friday evening September 22 at Mrs T E Babcock's home 308 East Jefferson Street.
A woman in a Boston grocery shop asks for a pound of alphabet crackers to help her children form sentences and requests adding oyster crackers for periods, prompting lighthearted local chatter and a quirky memory of everyday life.
A reflective piece follows a young worker finding kindness in a boss who brings sunshine and tears, guiding him through tough days on life’s highway. The narrator recalls how the chief’s support helps the kid feet press on, with a market notice about dairy and poultry prices appended.
A jury is seated in Cyrus Bush versus the independent consolidated school district of West Chester. The case centers on school transportation for Bush’s ten year old daughter and potential tuition payments to Young America school. Court action also covers Chapin corporation disputes over renderings plants and equity docket transfers.
The Iowa conference of the Methodist Episcopal church voted to meet at Newton next year with Mt Pleasant as the only other inviting town. A plan to fix salaries for district superintendents calls for a 16 member lay commission per district. Mrs Bertha Dixon of Burlington was named chair of the nominations committee. Town Wesleyan and Boston University alumni held banquets last night.
The text notes numerous remains of Revnst buildings across Europe with smaller bricks resembling modern tiles. English workers called tilers and brickmakers as Wat Tayler. It cites Hampton Court and Lambeth Palace in London as fine medieval brick architecture examples.
Ithaca foresters of the State Agricultural College say boring six holes and filling them with saltpeter to hasten decay is a waste of time. The holes would simply provide more surface for nature’s destructive agents to work on rather than speeding decomposition.
Advice on furnishing a girls room focusing on durable light colors and simple cost effective pieces. Recommends bed dressing table chairs a desk and storage with rose gray decor and cotton tape trims. Details fabric choices curtains bed spread rugs lamp base and decorative touches.
The excerpt highlights a phrase quoted as beauty and a joy forever from the October Delineator, suggesting a emphasis on enduring aesthetic appeal and lasting charm.
A Chinese mother tells children a tale of a cat and a dog living with an old couple whose magic ring was stolen. The cat and dog chase rivals across a river and roofs, the cat retrieving the ring first, the dog discovering it later. The old couple praise the cat while the dog is left hungry.
A fragment notes a Swedish discoverer named Ekeherz associated with a metal well and salt. The incomplete text hints at a mineral or chemical finding but lacks full details or dates. Further readable context would clarify the discovery and its significance.
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