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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1939
Page
4
Reprint of a devotional note by Dr. Paul F. Cadman discusses the idea of an abundant life promised to the spiritual and the wary reader. It contrasts simple godly sincerity with fleshly desires and warns against easy promises of wealth and power.
Observations discuss Iowa extending the good roads system via a Farm to Market bill. The plan would expand permanent road mileage under state supervision, finishing arterials first and weaving centers of population into a widening primary system while delaying byways until conditions permit. The piece recalls 1884 Muscatine Journal quotes on war.
The piece recalls conflicts over road building during a period of tests and lawsuits, with state and local rights disputed. It notes supervisors facing public heat, early trials of canals along primary roads, and pride in improved highways now extending to farm to market areas without extra taxation. It concludes motorists support funding via auto taxes, opposing diversion to general taxes.
W R Watkins Brown formerly edited the Summer field Sun, the weekly Summerfield Kansas newspaper. He guided local reporting and community updates during his tenure.
A medical columnist fills space explaining the dangerous age in two words. Mrs M D is referenced in the note.
A Washington man describes the most amusing scene he witnessed as a man lingering by his locked home at 1 a.m. waiting for his wife and children to return and let him in.
A four year old overhears a neighbor described as a self made man and asks why he made himself look the way he does. The inquiry leaves the neighbor and the father amused while Mrs. K H records the moment.
A restaurant display quotes a bank pledge saying no sandwiches will be served and no bad checks will be cashed in return, highlighting a humorous exchange over service.
A sentry halts a figure in the dark and demands identification. The officer of the day replies and the sentry, realizing his mistake, admits he forgot the next line and orders the officer to stay until he remembers.
A traveling salesman sold jewelry to a small town general store. The goods proved untrue to representation and were returned. The wholesalers tried to collect with a sight draft, which the local bank refused to honor. They sought the merchant’s credit by asking the postmaster and later the leading lawyer for collection. The postmaster’s curt reply named the merchant and his roles as bank president and town lawyer, and hinted at his church position, prompting a sharp rebuke.
A humorous portrait contrasts Robert Britten the portly bachelor with Timothy Gray a thin, pale man who courts widow Snize. Gray boasts a plain manner and a frugal lifestyle while navigating romance and social expectations.
Noel Coward visited Hollywood and planned a radio appearance with Maxie Rosenbloom. Negotiations began to remove Rosenbloom from the program as the Englishman’s humor clashed with the box’s drawing room taste. Rosenbloom called the exchange a draw and said drawing-room drivel isn’t his best entertainment.
Jerry Marlowe, an actor connected to Universal, secured a contract after a test with Paramount studios. He was initially noticed in Warner studio's prop department as a potential talent.
Charles Winninger, age 55, marks fifty years in show business and vows many more. Cap'n Henry stays spry for duck season, golf, and stage work including Deanna Durbin's father in Three Smart Girls Grow Up. Clark Gable runs a ranch with 12,200 chickens.
Army and Princeton clash in the Rose Bowl inspired sequence shot at Michie Stadium by Art Director Tack Schulze for The Duke of West Point. Cast includes Louis Hayward Tom Brown Alan Curtis Richard Carlson and Joanne Fontaine with Billy Rose and Eleane Holm featured.
A playful, coarse fragment describes a stout man named Britton who jokes about a heavy woman sitting on him and his wish to be braver or slimmer. The speaker notes weight and discomfort with a wry tone.
In a Christmas vacation street exchange the professor chides a student for unclear prose. The dialogue captures instruction on improving writing to be accessible to all readers.
Police continued their investigation into the mysterious death of Miss Mildred Standley age 25 and Nate Rosenberg a Michigan City businessman whose bodies were found in a tourist camp cabin near St. Joseph Michigan. There were no marks of violence or sign of a struggle.
Des Moines reports the 48th Iowa General Assembly nears adjournment with about 125 bills enacted and 68 failed, while 47 were withdrawn. Senate File 479 proposes a 17.66 million annual appropriation for the next biennium, with capital projects totaling 595000 for state facilities. The farm to market roads bill gains governor's fate, and a power alcohol bill ties corn values to federal guidance amid extensive committee action and lobbying.
House File 96 seeks a permanent corn market by mandating ethyl alcohol in gasoline at not less than 10 percent by volume. The measure parallels federal bills led by Senators Gurney, Herring, and Gillette, with a proposed tax rebate equating to 25 cents per bushel of corn used.
The Glad Hand Missionary society of the U. P. church met Thursday afternoon with Mrs H R Crawford. Thirteen members attended with lessons on The Jew and What Christianity Owes the Jew. Committees were read and delegates to Presbytery named. Hostess served a luncheon as 4 H noted.
The front and back of electrotype coins are forged separately and glued, leaving a join mark on the edge and an incorrect weight. These copies imitate rare originals but are not meant to fool experts, though they can be split in two with a sharp knife.
Frasistratus Erasistratus was a great physician of the third century B C who made key anatomical studies. He distinguished sensory and motor nerves named the trachea and devised a catheter. He studied respiration in fowl with a crude calorimeter and originated pneuma theory opposing humoral disease.
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