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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1946
Page
3
A 1946 newspaper excerpt argues that human alliances fail to guarantee eternal peace and urges acceptance of Christ's rule as the path to lasting tranquility, citing Isaiah 9 7 about the increase of government and peace.
A column catalogs social complaints from late winds to housing limits. It argues veterans shape federal housing policy, warns about government control, cites porcupines as forest pests, and contrasts democratic versus controlled government with Biblical allusion to Genesis.
A short card of thanks from Fay Morton and sons thanks friends for offerings while they sat out a county jail sentence. The piece includes a humorous verse comparing animals’ lifespans to humans and their imagined sobriety versus drink, concluding with a quip about long life for pickled men.
A Cedar Rapids family reports their son in law William Eugene Herman declared dead after a year missing. News mentions Irene Hendrickson’s daughter Mary Elma Hendrickson in Honolulu safe after storm. Various local moves and neighborhood happenings, plus a light note on American Home magazine article about parenting and truthfulness.
A Galway encounter reveals an Irish habit of easing travelers with small lies. An old peasant misleads about Corrifin distance by halves, a Salvation Army musician loses a corset, and a town banquet features notes on past wives.
A mother urges her son to swallow medicine by repeating a pep phrase. The boy answers with a simple plan to avoid the dose, saying he would claim he has already taken it so he would not need to. The exchange illustrates a misunderstanding of treatment and reliance on suggestive denial.
A 100 pound bag of 36 to 38 percent concentrate and 700 pounds of whee farm grains will feed 100 hens on full egg production for about one month.
Promoter P T Barnum sponsors a song writing contest to boost the first American appearance of opera star Jenny Lind, using the event as advance publicity and public interest spark.
Scientific research notes that the typical female gopher raises about 10 young annually. Pocket gophers do not breed when kept in captivity.
The article notes that most minerals and vitamins lie just under the potato skin and that peeling away thick skins wastes nutrients. Cooking potatoes with the jackets on preserves the potato's mineral and vitamin content.
The United States saw residential building valued between 7.2 percent of national income in 1925 and as low as 1.4 percent in 1933, reflecting wide fluctuations in peacetime years.
Paint properly chosen and applied lengthens the serviceable life of buildings by as much as 40 percent and an investment in paint yields about a 3 percent annual return through savings in building upkeep alone.
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