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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1921
Page
4
Beatrice H. Oxley of Utica New York writes that she is the mother of a boy named Charles and describes her roles as caregiver and contributor to a safer world. She reflects on her duties as a teacher librarian and mother and connects her work to political action and peace.
The speaker describes being the first to notice the newborns cries and to lift the child, noting constant care that leaves no personal time. The speaker references imaginary holiday feasts as solace for the demanding, selfless caregiving role.
The poem mocks merchants who overcharge and misrepresent goods. It ridicules clerks who mix sand with sugar and dairymen selling water in milk jugs. The speaker urges voters not to let the same tricksters sting twice.
My family knows me only when nobody else feeds me. When the weather is worst I drive the most miles by car or by horse to save lives. I endure fatigue and respond to frantic cries for help day and night. I take payment in whatever is offered and serve three generations. When death comes some say I could have helped. I am the country doctor.
Three Muscatine county farmers Adam Brossart Fulton township John G Schmidt Moscow township and Eugene Maylone Moscow township petitioned in bankruptcy in Davenport citing falling grain prices high rentals and inability to meet notes. At least 15 farmers in the southern district have filed voluntarily since July with rents between 800 and 4800 dollars noted as a major factor.
A cork dipped in an equal mix of oxalic acid and water is rubbed on the mahogany plane to remove stains. Once gone rinse with clear water and polish as usual.
National Federation of Music Clubs advocates greater school music emphasis during winter plans. aims include memory contests and music study credits, building a foundation for broader education. spotlight on concert tours for young prize winners in voice violin and piano, with Ora L. Frost heading the tour.
A feature recounts a singer praising an experimental solo in a silo for pure tones and notes less than 100 of thousands of American singers have perfect tone. It also covers Chopin’s last pupil in Paris and a canny claim that a Stradivarius-like tone was rediscovered by Fred H. Gasparlin in Evanston Illinois. Germany resumes royalties payments.
James C. Young recounts Marie Mancini daughter of the Italian nobility who became a court beauty at Versailles in 17th century France. Cardinal Mazarin guided her fate while Louis XIV wavered, leaving her famed yet unfulfilled as she wandered across Europe to Pisa where she died.
Des Moines September 26 Senator A B Cummins denounces overorganization in the United States saying consensus of judgment erodes as many groups push self serving aims. He cites Chamber of Commerce surveys and railroad labor disputes while defending the labor board and warning Congress faces biased information from organized interests.
One of the first royalty checks arriving at the United States Treasury honors John Philip Sousa with a $2500 payment in American currency. The Stars and Stripes Forever royalties cover 1914 to the present and note heavy German band usage before the U S entry into the war.
The passage credits American women with hospitality, suggesting men are absorbed in work and leave duties of entertaining to wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters. It notes men are often guests in their own homes and rely on female relatives to introduce guests and maintain ease.
A patent for a cylindrical glass churn granted in England in 1851 was tested at the 1851 exhibition against French tin churns and older English wooden churns. The small wooden family churn performed so well that it won a prize medal over the more aristocratic glass relatives.
Louisa county cattle and hogs are en route to the Mexican live stock show in Mexico City for exhibition next week. A car load, led by O M Cavin of Columbus Junction with Ralph Farber of Davenport and local herdsmen, will reach the border region by week’s end. Breeders include Towana Farm Davenport and Letts area farms. Joe McCord and Dancinger join in Kansas City with Mrs Dancinger and Mrs Madero aboard.
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