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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1932
Page
4
A biblical verse from Proverbs 29 2 about leadership and the people’s response. It notes that when the righteous hold authority the public rejoices while wicked rule brings mourning. The line reflects moral sentiment on governance and social welfare.
Edgar Rickard details Herbert Hoover’s prewar career from 1895 to 1914 highlighting early professional recognition. He joined and led engineering societies, earned medals from the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal to the John Fritz Medal, lectured at Stanford and Columbia, and saw monuments and honors across Europe and the United States.
The record notes honorary degrees from English, Polish, Belgian, Czechoslovakian, Austrian and German universities awarded to Herbert Hoover before his presidential nomination. In 1928 Mississippi’s legislature lauded his flood relief work, praising his tireless leadership, organizational genius, and economic recovery efforts that benefited the flood region and the nation.
A memoir style sketch recalls George Ade's youth as Chicago reporter and humorist and chronicles the saloon era. It portrays outlawed drinkeries, bribed police, and the era’s social decline while reflecting on memory, judgment, and nostalgia for a vanished world.
The note discusses common misuses and prono unciation quirks. It contrasts correct phrases like very much delighted with improper forms and lists synonyms such as inveterate habitual confirmed and deep rooted for emphasis.
A compact column relays lighthearted notes on winter giving way to spring, a reader’s tale of bills due and insurance, skepticism about a rattlesnake police story, and plans for a future Lie Contest with a prize for tall tales.
Highland correspondent reports scarce news due to rough roads delaying mail. Local social activity includes visits among Chalupa, Prymek, Rath, Krotz, and Steele families, Easter gathering for Mr and Mrs Scott Jones, and dental work at the University clinic in Iowa City.
A slightly deaf clergyman asks his assistant to announce hymn books after the sermon. The assistant reads a baptism notice first, then the clergyman clarifies hymn books are available any day between three and four, with standard editions at 15 cents and red-backed editions at 25 cents.
A childhood vignette on East Washington Street recalls a five year old singing Hello Daddy and You Beautiful Son of a Gun. A marble game ends with a boy buying ten marbles for a dime and winning them back. A kindergarten class learns America, and a boy rejects a song as silly for its final line Let Freedom Ring. A book agent joke ends with a housewife seeking work to keep her husband. a bank check scene ends with a misdirected social approach.
The staff photographer captured Joe Melinski mowing the Post Office lawn with a new mower on a sunny April day. A passerby muses about lighter undergarments as spring arrives and readers are urged to enjoy violet rays of the mild weather.
Mrs. Everette Coon reports social visits in West Highland with Joe Krotz, Pauline Florang, Lewis Coon, and Olive Coon spending time at the Murphy, Salladay, and Coon homes. Frequent trips to Washington and Burlington are noted, with illnesses affecting attendance and a locals group called Highland's Jolliest Club holding Friday night activities.
Red Brick March 31 Grandpa Wilson remains about the same and has been taken to the home of his son Charles. Little Jesse Wenger visits grandparents, while Flynn Brothers painters work as Katherine and Silyss Flynn plan to move to the farm. Charles Wilson sawed wood for Ernest Rouse, and visitors stay with local families as the week closes.
Mrs Hering referenced last week. Mr and Mrs John Pratt visited Tuesday at the farm. Grant Humston is sawing wood in the McCleery timber where a new road will be made.
Ainsworth Rt 2 notices list residents and visitors including Mac Wallace who injured a finger and received medical care. Reports cover farm business, cattle shipments, store purchases, church society meetings, bridge play, and upcoming road and public works contracts. Also noted are a rainbow and sun dogs seen on Easter, plus personnel changes at the Louisa County National Bank and local shifts in law enforcement.
Miss Mary K Parker daughter of the Rev and Mrs W H Parker Cotter and A Rea Anneberg son of Dr A R Anneberg Carroll were married at the Anneberg home on March 24 in Cotter in a single ring ceremony. Rev Mr Parker officiated with W Foltz singing and Vivian M Kivits accompanying. The bride a Carroll High School and Parsons College graduate.
The League of Nations Financial Committee recommends immediate Austrian credit of 196 million shillings and a one year moratorium for Greece. The report, to be reviewed at the April 12 special Council session, cites Balkan relief as a key aim amid an impending Balkan business crisis.
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