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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1938
Page
5
Bill Chmelar endures severe hardship after house fire a missing mare and colt and a fatally injured steer in a tractor accident. Community members share visits and social events with the Longer family and neighbors through a weekend and midweek sequence of gatherings.
Merrimac notes list visits and threshing among local families. Laura Bohnert aunt of D Baldosier at 78. gatherings include Amrine, Brannon, Mann, Crile, and Smith families with multiple calls and threshing rounds noted in the week.
Crowds gathered near Hotel Gotham in mid town New York to view the battered marquee after John Ward a 26 year old man leaped from the hotel ledge. Ward's death shocks the city as investigators begin to piece together his motives and timeline of events.
Keota voters head to polls to decide if two town lots now occupied by a soon razed Presbyterian church should join the public school grounds. The purchase, totaling 993.44 dollars including taxes for road surfacing, would expand the block on three streets with an alley at the rear. little opposition is foreseen.
Steamship lines funded trips by letting passengers in the lowest fare class haul boiler wood. When docking for fuel, travelers carried wood from shore storage to boilers. The excerpt notes that children and Charles Decker spent Sunday afternoon at Steve Shelangoski’s home.
Prairie Center notes detail threshing results with Koehler and Zieglowsky runs finishing in late July. Oats yields ranged from 25 to 45 bushels per acre, with a load upset injuring a horse. Social visits include Wolfe and Zeck families, a Chummy Six club picnic, and kinship gatherings through the week.
Cleveland began in 1796 with four residents and by the next year the population had grown to fifteen, illustrating rapid early settlement growth.
Gracehill notes an ice cream social planned by the Ladies Aid for Friday at the community building. The event invites all and follows a play by the young people titled Detour Ahead. Local residents Eugene Engel and David Weinland visited Des Moines Friday.
An early Universal Crime Club mystery screens Wednesday at the State with Preston Foster as Bill Crane the private investigator in a plot that keeps the killer hidden until the end The theft of a corpse from the morgue drives Crane to uncover the missing heiress and expose rival gangsters before a dramatic final reveal
In geological terms volcanoes develop where the crust is weaker and more prone to fracturing. The article explains that magma ascends through these weak zones, creating vents and eruptions where tectonic plates diverge or collide.
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