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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1938
Page
6
A sequence of Sunday and midweek visits and gatherings around Walnut details numerous households. Residents, including the Chorpenings, Tuckers, Nelsons, Humstons, McKay, Wiltons, Burroughs, and others, share meals, attend events, and pay calls across farms and town homes in April.
Margaret Florang hosted a miscellaneous shower at the Rishek home for her sister Mary Florang the bride of the week. The afternoon featured guests and celebrating notes in Riverside.
Article clarifies that the S O S distress signal does not derive from phrases like Save Our Souls or Save Our Ship, explaining it as a Morse code distress sequence SOS without a fixed meaning. It notes historical usage and the myth of expanded words behind the letters.
Urgent call to obtain a tube or jar of ointment today for a baby rash. Promises fast, safe relief and soothing aid to aid healing.
Lucille Hanley and Cecil Hughes were married April 15 at the Evangelical church south of Iowa City. Only the necessary witnesses attended and the couple now reside on Hughes’s father’s farm. Other notes include the Ray Rowe family visiting Barrett and Dorrance homes, Amos Weaver shelled corn for Hanley, and Margit and Anthony Barrett visiting Sigourney.
The richest growth of bamboo is in tropical Asia where the plants thrive as far north as Japan and to 10 000 feet or higher on the Himalayas.
Amboy notes Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stewart returned from a visit with daughter Mrs. Kate O’Brien and family in Omaha. Phyllis Stewart visited with grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Evans called Thursday evening at the Everett Stewart home.
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