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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1941
Page
5
Jim Marvin visits the local State employment office to register for defense work at no cost. He notes that skilled labor will be in demand for building tanks trucks ships guns and other war materiel for national defense.
In Washington County Iowa the September 1941 term of the District Court lists a large civil action filed by Marcella N. Cook against numerous defendants including Nathan Baker and Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company seeking to quiet title to Lot 14 and other parcels in Margaret M Young's Addition. The petition asks the court to confirm title in Cook and bar all adverse claims. A second notice invites sealed bids for additions and alterations to Washington County Hospital with bids due August 21 1941 for five contracts and refunds of plan deposits for bona fide bidders.
The estimated total American oil demand in 1940 is 1 439 000 000 barrels with 1 311 000 000 barrels for domestic use and 128 000 000 for export.
An entry defines a coon age as an indefinite span of time representing the years a raccoon might live. It clarifies that the term expresses a vague lifespan rather than a fixed age.
A reader states that producing food on half an acre can yield about 150 dollars per year.
A short saying defines a mule as one without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity, framing a blunt view on animal lineage and future.
Neon tubing covered with transparent plastic is being produced to mark the centers of highways.
A brief note recalls wooden lich gates with roofed passages in English churchyards dating back about thirteen centuries, marking how medieval churchyards were entered and protected.
A description notes bowling balls use a live rubber core formed under 30,000 pounds of pressure to shape the ball.
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