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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1973
Page
4
On April 12 1973 an editorial urges readers to turn away from vanity and seek the Lord’s path. It jokes that distinguishing weariness from laziness is hard and notes how tempting a warm bed is after the alarm sounds.
Pupils in a fourth grade class used a microscope to study human blood after a classmate slit his leg and bled. The student’s quick gesture provided a sample the teacher lacked and allowed the lesson to proceed. The act was celebrated as an act of bravery.
The piece argues courts protect the innocent against overzealous law enforcement. It cites Ernest Triplett, jailed 17 years for a crime he did not commit, allegedly drugged and coerced into a confession. It urges Iowa to award substantial damages, proposing $200,000 as a debt of honor to compensate the innocent man.
In various regions potholes and chuck holes share a single consequence for drivers who strike them. The piece notes regional naming differences while emphasizing the common danger and impact on motorists across the nation.
A Lake City column snippet humorously questions golfing privacy and honesty as a man moves his ball and records wrong scores, reflecting social propriety and reputation in a casual chatty style.
National Library Week April 9 14 celebrates the Washington Free Public Library 95th year with tours and observances. The 1870s effort led by HA Burrell George G Rodman and J A Thompson created a city library funded by a half mill tax and a $360 budget, moving to larger quarters and later the Helen Wilson Room. The library now offers traveling library requests interlibrary loans genealogical resources and extensive newspaper film archives.
The date marks Aries birthdays and notable events including Henry Clay’s birth in 1777 and the Civil War start at Fort Sumter in 1861. Roosevelt’s death in 1945 led to Truman’s 1945 oath, while Oppenheimer’s security suspension in 1954 and a 1961 Russian space launch are noted.
A column titled with odd statistics and quips from L M Boyd covers rapid foot growth in infancy, long-term foot doubling in boys, women's share of handsaw purchases, San Antonio as cleanest city, habits of married couples, and playful Q A exchanges on slang, Chinese punctuation, mosquito voices, and popular plants.
In a Dear Abby column a wife confronts her husband’s supposed business trip after spotting his car with a young woman. The man denies the trip, ages are given, and Abby notes the wife’s possible treatment, while another reader discusses youth independence and parental duty.
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