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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1940
Page
2
Local items list visitors, marriages, allergies to the community and requests for the New Telephone Directory. Mentions residents from Bird City Kan and nearby towns visiting relatives and attending events along with bridge benefits and county projects.
A mixture of telephone directory promotion and social visits. Mrs. Dale Wales of Long Beach and relatives visit Cedar Rapids then Will Hemmings, with many family mentions including the Beaty and Doolittle families, and a Maid Rite ice cream offer as a local ad. Social calls span Mason City Ottumwa Oskaloosa Mt. Pleasant and Springville.
National League standings show Brooklyn 0 0, Cincinnati 6 2, New York 4 4, Philadelphia 2 8. Monday results include Cincinnati 8 Pittsburgh 2 and St Louis 6 Chicago 5. American League lists Boston 2 and Detroit 6 4, with Monday scores Boston 11 Philadelphia 3 and New York 5 Washington 4.
Super Torrid Gold Field in Tennant Creek Australia is described as one of the world’s richest gold fields. The climate is extreme with cool nights and scorching daytime heat around noon to four in the afternoon, pushing conditions for residents and workers.
Helen Dinnie of Cedar Rapids sues Irene Baltinger of Toledo to restrain her for one year from operating in any beauty shop within five miles of Dinnie’s Toledo shop. Dinnie hired Baltinger in 1981. Baltinger quit April 10, 1940, and has since threatened to open or seek beauty work elsewhere, violating the contract terms.
Captain Andy Sank, 45, of St. Louis, pilot of the steamer Henry Warner with four coal barges, disappeared Monday on the Mississippi near KBOKUK. The cook saw him in his room at 6:29 am before the 6 am watch change. his hat coat jacket remained, suitcase missing, implying a possible accident or drowning.
About five hundred Odd Fellows and Rebekahs attended the 121st anniversary of the IOOF Eastern Iowa District in Wellman. Degree work by Fairfield team, reception at Lewis pavilion, and dancing closed the evening amid officers from Keokuk Cedar Rapids Sigourney and Iowa City.
On the Iowa State College campus both republicans and democrats prepare for the campaign. The Student republican club formed a month ago and the democratic club includes Robert Browne Wallace of Washington D C son of Henry A Wallace secretary of agriculture, William Dreier Hubbard Newton Wallace and Louis Vanderlinden in Ames.
The Des Moines Supreme Court received Dr Morton Lyon of Clinton's appeal to set aside his commitment to Madison state penitentiary for five years. Judge John Purcell ordered the term after finding Lyon violated the good behavior clause of a suspended sentence on the same charge dated Sept 1935.
At the Senior High and Junior College Girl Reserves May party at the Y, a tiny uninvited mouse caused giggles as Edith Shields and Helen Rabet helped break the ice. Mrs Harriet Coulter planned the event with clever baskets, May pole centerpieces, and gumdrop favors.
Iola Dittmer and Beth Reif will perform in Martha on May 1 and 2 at the Parsons high school auditorium. The production is by the ensemble technique class with guidance from a Parsons professor.
Mrs J M Welch of East Moline Illinois was dismissed this morning after a tonsillectomy performed yesterday correcting a misprint which had read appetitelectomy. Nels B Westermark and Rothschild were also discharged yesterday.
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