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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1950
Page
7
Jo Ann Smith notes spring fever grips students as teachers assign longer tasks, baseball season looms, and neighbors fear stray balls. Parkin son’s Ensemble entertained, seniors were interviewed, and Haster vacation nears while Mrs. Hazard assumes home economics and business teaching duties.
A rambling column recalls sights from a northern drive, noting tin can dumps near roads, robins building nests, a St Louis ballet mecanique anecdote with a laughing crowd, a gardener’s wooden trees quip, Inland Acres at the Darnels, rabbits in Mrs. Schmoeller’s garden, and a farmhouse chairs joke ending with a humorous hat quip.
The piece critiques voter mobilization tactics, government downsizing promises, and tipping norms while noting political farm price debates. It comments on Truman era politics, the Veterans Administration staffing revisits, and the need for nonpartisan civic effort to ensure broad voter participation. It also lampoons potato emblem talk and farm policy debates.
Square Circle club met March 29 at Mrs. Floyd Reschly home. Members answered roll with three regrets, club president Mrs. Robert Howell led a brief business session, a donation to the Christian Orphans Home in Council Bluffs and three dollars to the Red Cross were approved, and the afternoon ended with Easter themed refreshments.
Mr and Mrs Clark Waooda are spending time at the Del bert Woods home in Cedar Rapids, according to a brief society note.
Atlanta may 1947 Clyde Duncan a 22 year old ambulance driver works with polio victims at the city airport and two rail stations He is the last contact before Warm Springs treatment and on return He married Doris Rednour of Mount Vernon Illinois whom he met at Union Station in November 1947 Also notes North Carolina began a geological survey in 1823.
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