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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1932
Page
12
A brief religious meditation notes sorrow for sin and readiness to confess in prayer. It cites Psalm 88:15 and 18 as the Biblical verse guiding repentance and divine hearing. The record presents a devotional verse fragment reflecting contrition and plea for mercy.
A reflective verse where the speaker contrasts bargaining with Life for a penny versus Life’s quiet fairness. The poem argues that Life pays what is asked, but after setting a wage one bears the task, revealing the writer’s sense of measured compensation and meaning.
A notice explains new rate rules for Canada and Newfoundland letters. First ounce or under now requires 3 cents postage and letters missing the 3 cent stamp are not delivered. If return addresses are absent and postage is short, letters go to the dead letter office.
President Hoover has not offered to work for a dollar but discussed the idea of waiving his $75,000 annual salary and taking a substitute if Congress cuts salaries broadly. He is constitutionally entitled to $75,000 a year but would go along with a senate or house move toward reduced pay if others are reduced as well.
The piece argues that many government departments overlap and must be simplified to save costs. It notes the difficulty of destroying jobs but says postwar excess staffing should be trimmed to those performing necessary work with value received.
The writer argues for nonpartisan leadership in national finance emergencies. Partisanship corrupts decisions as politicians flip positions for expediency. Independent leaders risk reprisals, and strong personalities are needed to rise above party lines.
A Texas speaker, Jack Garner, blamed Hoover for the great panic, while arguing no party caused the crisis. The piece traces roots to 1914-18 mass production and wartime excess, noting Europe’s postwar collapse and the shift to recovery with no single party or president to blame.
A collage of light items and jokes from rural life. Observations include a robin with cellophane, a forgetful husband who forgets plans, and comments on spring and travel. Various vignettes and a humorous poem tease readers with everyday quirks and playful mischief.
A compact note explains common misspellings for outrageous and presents a daily word study. The entry defines pregnant as teeming with ideas and suggests using the word in context to grow vocabulary.
A rough social survey notes people rushing in the wrong direction while women seek admiration. It questions how campaign songs will rhyme names like Hoover Roosevelt Smith and Garner. It contrasts high speed driving with the burden of twelve car payments and observes hoarding in a cash chase.
The Rocky Mountain locust invasion swept across Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and portions of Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, Indian Territory of Texas. It devastated nearly all vegetation and warned farmers to act as grasshopper egg masses hatch, risking a crisis worse than 1931 in several states.
The contest manager Miss Bleakly asks the winners announced in Wednesday's Journal to gather at the Journal office at 7 20 Thursday evening after the theater party to strengthen her campaign and finalize plans.
The article reviews historic grasshopper plagues across the Midwest, noting 1857 1858 invasions into central Iowa from mountains, major damage in 1866 1867 in Kansas Nebraska and western Missouri, and severe 1873 1874 outbreaks with egg laying and hatching driving renewed harm in the upper Mississippi valley.
Round trip tickets at 85 percent of the one way fare go on sale April 22 and 24 between all stations in Illinois Iowa Missouri Wisconsin and Minnesota and between those states and Omaha Lincoln Nebraska City Leavenworth and Atchison. Tickets good in coaches or chair cars with sleeping car option for the usual Pullman fare. return by midnight May 2. Half fare for children. Consult agent for details.
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