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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1942
Page
4
The piece weighs the choice for high school boys between college and military service amid wartime. It argues for staying in school and using the Enlisted Reserve plan to prepare for future national needs, while noting Britain’s manpower drain and Russia’s stubborn defense against the Nazi advance.
An exhortation on helping troubled people with steadfast friendship and cheerful courage. It suggests that a steadfast smile and supportive presence become mutual sunshine, returning to the giver through shared resilience within everyday battles.
A young George Loring Brown mispriced his first finished work at fifty dollars instead of fifty cents. An art critic bought it for fifty dollars, launching Brown from a wood cutter apprentice into a professional artist.
A reminiscence filled column recalls the Colenso Hotel and Bryson House while describing recent changes. It notes renovations on East Washington street, a fire's impact on Susie Johnson's stairs, a new garage at Jones place, and the government takeover of Battle Creek sanitarium for hospital use. Elizabeth Sherman visits from Spencer and a large tent revival is reported at the Christian tabernacle.
Attorney George Morrison, educated at the State University of Iowa in Liberal Arts and Law, has practiced in Washington since 1913. A former county attorney for fourteen years, he hunts in spare time, clean guns during hunting season, follows the Cubs and Bears, and plays golf. He is married with three sons, one in the navy.
A fragment from a Riverside gossip column notes a young debutante described as very fashionable and alluring. It hints her father recently lost his job and suggests community chatter about the young woman and her father.
The report notes that aside from infancy the highest death count in the United States occurs at age 71 based on compiled statistics. It frames this as a general finding across the population with no specific demographic breakdown.
The red-winged black bird feeds 26 percent on animal matter and, despite complaints in parts of the country, it appears to cause little overall damage.
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