One With Us Merciful High Priest Reconciles Sins
A biblical reflection cites Hebrews 2 17 18 stressing Jesus as merciful faithful high priest who makes reconciliation for the sins of the people and can succor those tempted due to his own sufferings.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1930
Page
4
A biblical reflection cites Hebrews 2 17 18 stressing Jesus as merciful faithful high priest who makes reconciliation for the sins of the people and can succor those tempted due to his own sufferings.
Townsend M. Zink of Le Mars dies and leaves almost all his fortune to a library fund that must be a women free, men only institution. No books by women or magazines about women may be admitted. He also leaves his daughter five dollars and nothing to his wife, claiming a lifelong hatred of women. The will provokes debate over mental balance and the meaning of an odd, controversial bequest.
A Massachusetts senatorial contest develops between former senator William Butler running as a dry and Marcus A. Coolidge a Democrat relative of ex President Coolidge. Butler won the Republican nomination over Draper and the real campaign will hinge on the wet dry issue as Massachusetts is seen as wettest state yet voters may ignore pre election noise.
A collage of reader jests and letters, including Mary Margaret Jones’s embarrassment at a school valentine, Kathleen Norris praised for moral stance, a Catholic perspective on church versus state and prohibition, club conversations about professors, jokes about wages and marriage, poetry prizes, and assorted remarks from readers and a columnist.
An item notes mixed Catholic and Protestant stances on Prohibition with no unified church position. It highlights Catholics as active prohibition workers, naming figures such as Colonel Kathlon Norris P. H. Callahan of Kentucky and describing a prominent woman as devoted and honorable.
A compact teaching note by W. L. Gorgon highlights common misuses mispronunciations spellings and word study. It urges readers to expand vocabulary by mastering a single new word daily and illustrates how subtle errors can alter meaning in everyday writing.
Local notes celebrate a tractor driving beauty from a nearby Iowa farm who wowed crowds during a fall parade. The piece recalls regional figures like John Shields in Washington and Hugh H. McCleery, with humor about prairie life, wool mills, sod houses, and rattlesnake tales.
Abe Martin fondly recalls a time when doing good work in the mill defined perfection. He mentions Earl Carroll and King Carol as part of that bygone era.
In Schenectady a 20 year old girl and her father vanished after visiting the west 20 years ago. Miner va Jane Sherwood, now reunited with her mother, after contacting Schenectady police from Columbus, Ind. She learned her mother’s maiden name and found Mrs. Henry H. Whish, who had remarried.
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