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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1938
Page
4
A compact devotional excerpt combines Joel 2 32 on deliverance through calling on the Lord with Bliss Carman’s note on work as joy and art. It frames spiritual deliverance in Zion and Jerusalem alongside personal purpose in daily tasks.
The piece recalls a community effort to fund a new high school building reaching three votes after defeats. It notes bond issues totaling 200000 supported by war times and a peak district indebtedness of 260000. Poll split shows men for 620 against 292. women for 766 against 20. spoiled ballots 25 and 29 respectively.
The speaker argues that aging buildings, with efficiency below fifty percent, fail to provide modern lighting ventilation and safety for children. They cite past failures to void a Centennial building verdict and urge collective concern from parents and residents to address an emergency in elementary education facilities.
Ralph Dougherty handed a Des Moines Register Iowa Oddities cartoon to a reporter. It features George Washington Bentley of Red Oak Iowa born Feb 22 1875 in Washington Iowa. Locals recall Bentley names and seek memory of the family from 1875 era for town and county publicity.
An old time labor debate contrasts shovel and trenching machine with a contractor’s punchy response. He cites a trench dug by a machine replaced by one hundred shovel workers, then quips of ten thousand men with teaspoons as a sharper critique of resisting labor-saving machinery.
In Turlock California residents reported hearing moans from a woman’s ghost in a vacant house, a scene described as exciting and eerie by those who observed the house’s interior and atmosphere.
Police cleared 50 ghost hunters from a residence after a phantom hunt, then found only bees in the rafters. A beeman was summoned to handle the buzzing hive.
A Journal staffer slipped back to the composing room and had a column item removed from the page, sparking questions about motive and the decision to omit the member’s name from the paper.
Two young married men from Washington planned a night out on Monday. One had not seen the Fox show yet and agreed to meet at eight. They discovered one had already seen the show the other wanted, so they chose different pictures to attend together.
A Richmond area man named George William Malichky known as Bill visits Washington to solicit orders for Social Justice Magazine and Rev Father Coughlin books. He plans a radio talk about his life and work and is preparing a 950 page book. he now sells cleaning fluids and asks local citizens for support. The column notes his enthusiasm and long sales talks, and hints at possible radio broadcasting.
Mrs. Esther A Lawler a 20 year China missionary recently back from the war zone will speak and show pictures of Chinese war sections at 7 30 p m Thursday and Sunday evenings at the Foursquare Gospel Tabernacle She travels nationally for Chinese missions and relief and has ties to Chinese officials including Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek Her remarks stress the urgent need for missionaries now Lawler plans to return after the tour while husband Mr Lawler remains to oversee the mission and has aided with the Chinese Ambulance Corp during active service
A letter to the editor denounces an April New York incident where ex service men were beaten by members of a Nazi Bund group. The writer urges deportation of foreign sympathizers and calls for action by President Roosevelt and veterans organizations. The piece equates tolerance with danger and references a judge's remark defending a Nazi suspect.
Ruth Norris reports Ainsworth votes elected 4 H. Pressly as president of the school board. Committees named include purchasing and repair, house and grounds, with Roy Whitman and John Koehler on the first panel led by 4 H. Pressly, and Don Wylie listed among others.
Mason Ladd of the University of Iowa will give the commencement address May 12. W W Sheridan visits relatives in Chickasha Ohio. W A Carr and Ira Carr return from Rochester Minn where Ira had an operation. The Iowa Pearl Button plant shut down Monday evening for a short time.
A tame female tiger named Lady roamed through circus dressing rooms in Madison Square Garden yesterday. Paul Horum, a midget actor in Grumpy in the circus verse, struck the tiger over the head with a mallet to stop it.
Wayland April 27 Dr B D Roberts of Wayland will join the Knox College Galesburg Ill faculty next fall as professor of hygiene college physician and director of student health He holds an MD from the University of Chicago trained at Illinois and did a fourteen month internship at Henry Ford Hospital Detroit prior to moving to Wayland three years ago.
Horace McCormac 63 of Cedar Rapids native to Letts family, died last Monday after heart illness. Funeral at Letts United Methodist with Rev. R. B. Van Dyke officiating and Masonic rites at grave. Survived by widow Lean coder two sons Donald Norman at home two sisters Christie Turkington of Letts and Lulu Leight Virginia.
A brief note expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for acts of kindness during the illness and death of wife and mother Wm. 8S. Saville. Signed by Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hesseltine and Mr. and Mrs. Don Darbyshire.
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