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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1949
Page
7
Public invited to watch the annual YMCA ping pong tournament in the Y gym tonight at seven. Matches include junior and senior singles and doubles, with several tables set up for play and the event to finish in one evening depending on turnout.
A Paris judge grants divorce to Prince Aly Khan and his wife freeing him to wed Rita Hayworth. The private decree issued in the Palace of Justice chambers cites mutual craving injury as grounds.
Markets data for wheat oats soybeans are presented with May July and Sep contracts at multiple price points and percentages. A note mentions Grand Coulee dam housing enough concrete to weigh 36 percent of the U S population and a speed comparison between an analog calculator and human mental math.
The Iowa senate passed a measure to boost supplementary state aid to schools. It sets aid when net income from tax levies falls short of 125 dollars per elementary pupil and 175 dollars per high school pupil, a 50 dollar rise from current figures. The house added a clause letting school boards require higher minimum ages for kindergarten and first grade, sending the bill back to the senate for concurrence.
The Arabs introduced algebra to modern Europeans. The work of Mohammed Ben Musa was translated into English in 1831. Briar pipes are made from the root of the large heath plant found in the south of France.
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