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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1927
Page
4
Fragments from Hammurabi to Homer warn against drinking wine. References include Babylonian laws, Shu King enactments, Buddhist scriptures, Egyptian letters, Solomon, Mahomet, and Homer. The notes depict broad moral and social warnings about liquor and its perceived vices.
A collage of humorous quips and editorial asides from various U.S. papers. Observations range from water quality and chemistry to alcohol’s social impact. The pieces juxtapose critiques of prohibition, travel, sports, and publicity, reflecting early 20th century newspaper wit.
A compact guide noting misused terms and pronunciations. It highlights equanimity as pleonastic, canine pronunciation ka nin, and common misspellings of formally and formerly. The piece promotes daily vocabulary growth and features impervious as a key word meaning not admitting passage.
Community whispers hope the rain stops by Thursday and Friday as Washington readies a fall festival. locals joke liquor soaks crowds despite showers while vendors and performers prep free acts.
A light exchange contrasts ancestral arrival on the Mayflower with modern immigration laws. The piece notes the difficulty of selecting acceptable jurors, drawing a witty parallel to choosing ripe cantaloupes.
A collage of humorous lines and social quips appears, touching on bootlegger lies, marriage refusals, bachelorhood maxims, tidy puns, and race between modern dating norms and old proverbs. Notable bits include references to Miss Nutley and a pole cat pun, alongside jokes about epithets and painters.
In Ogden Utah on September 26 representatives of The Al Smith for President Association of the Rocky Mountain and Pacific States adopted unanimously a resolution by James H Moyie Utah national committeeman calling for tariff reforms to aid western raw material producers.
Sam E. Bork production for First National Pictures presents a blondes versus brunettes chuckle in The Prince of Headwaiters at the Fox Theatre. The scene counts 31 blondes 27 brunettes and 2 red-heads among cafe extras, with principal cast including Priscilla Bonner Lilyan Tashman Ann Roark Cecil Evans Marion Melonald and Nita Cavalier.
A New York report describes a push by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association to simplify radio tuning. The plan would rename about 90 wave channels from kilocycles to Channel numbers, aiding the majority of listeners.
Berlin dispatch reports Lufthansa, the German airline, suffered its third fatal accident in three days. A passenger plane en route from Stettin to Calmar ditched at Lake Damm after a forced landing. mechanic Walter Harder drowned. Details on pilots and passengers unknown. Earlier crashes killed two and another killed Baron Ago von Maltzan and five others.
Miss Ferne Duncan of Washington has been appointed editor of Women’s Athletics in the Coe College Acorn yearbook. The committee will report study results and a radio station canvass at the radio division meeting of the N B E M A in Chicago in late November.
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