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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1938
Page
5
Mrs Edna Eaton Wilson a Ripley Oklahoma farmer's wife won the annual Country Home contest prize of 500 dollars and a New York trip. She is pictured writing a letter home describing the sights from her trip.
As strike actions ease in Newton Iowa life returns to near normal with the Maytag Washing Machine Co plant reopening after a three month disruption. National guardsmen continue to monitor for trouble as striking C I O workers briefly return to jobs after voting down wage cut terms and demanding profit related restoration.
Rainfall reached about two percent inches in an hour with lightning and a brief outage on a power line. A strange natural light flooded the sky, trees shone silvery and a vivid rainbow appeared over the eastern horizon. Waterloo visitors J C Mitchell and family toured local Cedar Falls homes later Saturday.
The article notes America’s shift to recycling and repurposing surplus and waste. It cites obsolete destroyers sold for perishables, a 19.5 million bushel apple crop moved via cooperative government programs, reused tires, and rubber reconditioning. It also mentions selling the 1929 crash stocks and securities to salvage dealers and a World’s Fair site being repurposed as a park.
Iowa tests a new maintenance method adding 10 to 12 percent clay binder to gravel and treating heavily used routes with calcium chloride. The method yields a hard compacted, smooth, dustless surface with no loose material, after trials in 1987 on 46 miles.
A 1060 pound hog was sold for 300 dollars by W. V. Jordan of Jordan Saveare Farms Concord Township near Columbus Junction. The item notes local weather and farm updates including tomato packing by Orville Sparrow, road work by Louisa county crews, and residents traveling to visit relatives.
A 19th century reflection notes youth as spring, praised when favorable but often marked by biting winds, not genial breezes, with emphasis on subjective experience of youth.
Richard Dix plays a seasoned transport pilot who mentors a rash student flyer at a major aviation school run by Harry Carey. Chester Morris forms a tense bond with Dix as Joan Fontaine marries Dix after a broken engagement, leading to a high stakes Arctic flight climax.
Mrs. Nellie Ross, director of the mint, inspects the West Point silver depository signaling completion of the third surplus bullion storehouse. Fort Knox and Denver also house new strongboxes. The West Point building, costing nearly $600000, will store 70000 tons of silver and is set inland for air raid protection.
In South Paris Maine Francis M. Carroll former deputy sheriff defends against charges of killing Dr Littlefield and his wife. He attacks the testimony of Paul Dwyer an 18 year old serving life for the crime who accused Carroll of the actual killing. The case hinges on a fourth confession by Dwyer alleging Carroll killed the couple to conceal relations with Carrolls 17 year old daughter Barbara once Dwyers former sweetheart.
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