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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1932
Page
4
The Homestead Farm column questions the use of animal imagery for political parties such as the elephant for the Republicans and the donkey for the Democrats. It notes a mule and a camel drawing, complains about the spreader group, and laments the changing editorial cartoons used in neighborhood columns.
A home talent vaudeville program titled The Local Unit will run at the State theater April 18 19 and 20 with ten peppy acts. Miss Melba McAvoy directs a cast of twenty with an eight girl eight boy chorus and a pianist. The show lasts about forty five minutes with one performance each night between feature screenings.
Mrs. KE. W. Spessard of Ainsworth reports a local grasshopper sighting in Washington county noting 45 nymphs hatched in ferns on her porch. The insects were destroyed and an estimated number removed from fields and gardens this season. The piece also mentions vaudeville acts by Miss McAvoy and performances by The Local Unit with acrobatics and song.
Grand Knight J M Kelly announces solemn high mass at St James Catholic church next Sunday at ten o clock in honor of the founding of the order fifty years ago. About 100 members expected to occupy reserved front seats. assembly at St James school at 9 45. Father J H O Donnell will be celebrant with Fathers Van Wauss and Sentbuehler as deacon and sub-deacon.
Women and ladies are invited to hear Attorney Leo Thoma speak on Where Our Tax Money Goes at 7 30 p m after the Better Washington club dinner Friday evening in the Y M C A community room. Dinner attendees should notify Wise Long by Thursday noon.
Lily Lou Lansing a twenty year old aspiring opera singer clashes with wealth and social snobbery as Ken Sargent, son of Kentfield Sargent, reappears. She buries romance in study while Ken flirts and visits with his father watching from the shadows. The chapter ends with a parting glance and unresolved longing.
Stephen L. Lucas, a New York and Budapest resident and WWII veteran, told the U's Men's club last night that travel shows how far Hungary and other nations have fallen due to the pengő currency. He noted the pengő's devaluation to 17 cents and described how reform has shifted wealth from rich to near penniless.
Charles Delaney credits his top sergeant Rex Ingram with steering him from the Royal Air Force to the screen after World War I. Delaney, an ex pilot, stars as a champion pug in The Big Timer at the State theater with Ben Lyon Constance Cummings and Thelma Todd in the lead roles.
A speaker compared European and American customs noting Americans appear more conventional than continental Europeans. He distributed booklets with scenes from various European countries. The meeting closed with a tumbling exhibition by Horace Allen and Johnnie Rohrer, which was well received.
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