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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1945
Page
8
A Wash ington obituary notes the sudden death of Margaret Livingston Moss of Ft Wayne Ind at 35 after an X ray visit. The column offers short anecdotes about aging, nylon hose progress, futuristic houses and playful family vignettes with a humorous tone.
Jennie M. Conner longtime Great Falls Public Library first librarian died July 1 in Palo Alto California after a long illness Funeral services were held July 2 at All Saints Episcopal church with interment at Alta Mesa Memorial Park She was a West Virginia native who moved to Great Falls with family in early life and helped open the Carnegie funded library in 1903 Conner resigned in 1913 and was succeeded by Louise Fernald She is survived by a Palo Alto sister three nieces and four nephews. brother and sister are deceased
The passage notes that postwar generosity in golf events shrank as the war ended. Les Eicher made a hole in one but did not receive a single bottle of ginger ale. It recalls earlier years when Hugh McCleery and other pioneers were flooded with gifts, while the golf course and achievement remained the same.
Yvonne De Carlo stars in Walter Wanger’s Technicolor Salome Where She Danced opening at the State Theater. The film, based on 0 Henry, features vivid color and intense emotion as De Carlo becomes a rising cinema icon after winning the role in a 20 000 applicant contest. A tangential note on girls’ growth ends the piece.
Fritz Mandl, wealthy Austrian munitions manufacturer, was detained by Colonia police on orders from Uruguay’s interior minister. Authorities said the case would go before a judicial court in Montevideo but did not specify charges.
Two Des Moines brothers aged 16 and 17 ran a lucrative dice game at a tourist cabin near FE Fourteenth street and Euclid avenue. District Judge Joseph E. Meyer sent them to Elfdora training school with parole, ordering return to their Cen terville farm home and ban on dice shooting. They were to render $100 from profits to the county school fund. They were arrested June 18 and admitted the setup with the younger boy rolling for the house.
Riverside column details weekend visitors and welcomes including Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dautremont and family from Moline Illinois, Catherine Baschnagel of Cedar Rapids, Elmer Kolesick and son Jesse of Washington, the Bopp families, Slaughter family, Whitmire family, and Nettie Shrade hosting guests. A son born July 28 at a Cedar Rapids hospital to Mr. and Mrs Adrian Dautremont. The Dautremonts’ relative serves in the One States Navy stationed in California.
A Britannica account notes the Turtle, built in America in 1776, as the first war submarine attempting to sink a British ship with a gunpowder charge. It also cites a Civil War example in 1864 when the Confederate vessel Housatonic was torpedoed by a Union submarine, with loss of crew.
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