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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1924
Page
5
Mrs. Francis Edmund Whitley writes in the Iowa board of conservation bulletin that Iowa citizens now favor more state parks. She attributes changing opinions to increased motoring and tourism expanding access to nature, urging preservation of remaining scenic spots for posterity.
Reports from the Hessian fly station in Emerson Indiana indicate no eggs on test plants yet 22 percent of flies have emerged from pupil cases cool weather is blamed for the late emergence a small want ad note is appended.
The ZR-3 crew of 26 officers and men will stay in the United States after arriving at Lakehurst New Jersey. Dr Hugo Eckener plans a two to three month American stay visiting New York Chicago St Louis Milwaukee Detroit and other plants. He will return to Germany to command the airship on the Atlantic crossing with Captain Ernest Lehmann and U S observers detailing the American reception and inspection at Lakehurst by Navy officers. The German crew includes Eckener Lehmann Flemming Siegle Wittemann von Schiller Scherz and others with officers and petty officers completing the delegation.
Ex editor Dale Fluhart argues capital punishment lacks discussion as lifers adapt to prison life. He cites inmates who pursue music, broom making, or literature, carrying hope inside bars, with some serving six to eighteen years before release. A lifer’s mindset shifts to martyrdom, detaching from societal debt.
Holme, editor of a small town paper, rejects Myrtle Suffield’s poems then grows fond of her charming honesty. Myrtle confesses Auntie wrote the verses to protect her. Holme asks if this changes his love, and Myrtle’s secret alters their engagement prospects.
Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers ends 1924 with a .337 average and the record for eighteen consecutive seasons above .300. He adds nine straight 200 hit seasons, nine years with 100 or more runs, and holds lifetime records for runs, safe hits, and games played. Babe Ruth leads in home runs and RBIs, while Rogers Hornsby tops the National League with about .420. The Giants pace in hitting and scoring. in fielding they rank second to Boston.
A canal boat skipper on a mule driven voyage meets a blisters born tramp asking for a lift. The skipper tests the man moral character and drafts a crew pact by instructing him to pull a rope and work his passage to the next town. The scene plays as a rugged maritime anecdote aboard a Southern canal.
A playful reference to Shakespearean folly notes that the fool misreads his own wisdom. The line comments on vanity and mistaken self view through a witty quip.
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