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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1939
Page
8
A senior speech class member nicknamed Bud captivates with a strong speaking gift and widespread applause. He balances civics physiology and chemistry courses with Hi Yo track Triple C Club and the Letter Club, plus football last semester.
Lincoln Fourth grade pupils at Lincoln High studied the gold rush era and created a four-scene frieze on the West. They depicted travel by wagon train, frontier camps, exploration for gold, and today’s landscapes with waterfalls and mountains. The class built the display as a group effort with hand drawn figures, chalk backgrounds, and researched notes from the California Forest and Range Experiment Station.
The Washington Cleaners advertises as the region’s largest cleaning plant for a town of its size with 11 000 dollars in equipment. Services include cleaning rugs curtains upholstery hats and ladies wear with steam hat machine and guaranteed hat cleaning results.
Relatives express plans to attend the California World’s Fair, citing better opportunities and personal reasons. T. J. Berdo and Allen Atkinson favor California for prospects, Ruth Schantz desires Westward travel, and Mary Drickweier hopes to see Clark Gable at the fair.
Miss Shields' civics classes finished the legislative unit and begin executive government. Miss Fisher's girls start basketball Flying Garts and shuffle board soon. Miss Anderson's juniors read The Crisis. Randell's homemaking studies cotton weaves. ITT child care three weeks. Minick's history covers Roosevelt Taft and Lincoln as World War study starts.
A reader asks which World’s Fair would be preferable California or New York, weighing options for culture technology and spectacle and seeking guidance on travel choice. The question frames a comparison between two celebrated expositions and invites opinions.
A Minnesota piece touts Williams Formula as a quick relief remedy for sour gas pains constipation and irritated kidneys. It claims the liquid medicine acts on the kidneys colon and blood with natural herbs delivering full value and economy.
Advertisement notes Williams Formula costs a few cents daily and could be worth ten dollars per bottle by aiding gas and bloating, flushing stomach acid, easing kidney tube irritation, and lightly boosting iron through a mild laxative effect Get Williams Formula today at Phillips Hebney Drug Store.
Herbert Storey describes how water-soaked shale became soft and slippery, triggering a small earthquake that caused rock layers to slip and slide down a mountain. He compares the event to a chocolate layer cake tipping, and notes no pictures exist to illustrate the slide.
The item teases social slips among Hi-Y members and girls including Chara Ann Huber Esth er Goodlander Frannie R. and Lucille M. It hints at college rumor about teachers and freshmen noting mischief with hats and a cryptic dictionary clue for Georganne Rudiger and a Cotterev visit by Dale V.
Questions swirl about Vernon Been blossom and possible Cotter connections. Rumors name Margaret Votruba and Dorothy McGaffey with Fairfield ties. Carolyn Strong's Sunday disappointment and Columbus Junction boys draw chatter. A Bible class for girls at school prompts talk of joint meetings and parties.
A student poem laments the clash between senior restraint and happiness, urging calmness yet admitting the pull of laughter. It contrasts dignity with youthful joy and ends with a reflection on a cherished jewel: friendship. The piece includes a second voice praising a jewel as the heart of a new-found friend.
The annual spring meeting of the Deans of Men of Iowa Colleges was held at Iowa State Teachers College on April 8. The program featured three forums on guidance student activities and whether freshman mortality warrants curriculum revisions as in Minnesota and California junior colleges. Dean Beatty Grinnell College chaired the first discussion, Dean Reed Iowa State Teachers College led the second, and Dean Lonzo Jones University of Iowa spoke on the third, with many junior colleges in attendance.
Junior High industrial arts classes start a plaster plaque project. Students select plaque designs including Will Rogers George Washington and Abraham Lincoln with two more floral and Scotty dog patterns. They build rubber molds then cast plaques in plaster over a base frame, vulcanizing the molds beforehand.
A boy prepares a plaster plaque in a rubber mold and colors it with shellac. Junior high pupils watch two films in the library during two periods, with eight two and sixth grades first period and eight one and seventh grades second period. The limited space requires two showings for all students. Films include Cotton in South America Birds of Prey and Milk as Food.
On April 21 and 22 the southeast ern Town Music festival in Burlington features three local groups. A clarinet quartet includes Dorothy Turner Georganne Runiger Caroleen Sartor and Audrey Hotle.
The Bureau of Mines reports the United States consumes about 8,000,000 tons of salt each year. Roughly half of this supply is obtained from brine wells and salt has about 1,500 distinct uses.
The Duomo of Milan stands as Europe’s second largest Gothic cathedral and features a vast arch decorated by more than 4 000 statues.
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