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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
4
A traveler’s story highlights welfare payments shaping a hitchhiker’s attitude toward work, suggesting unearned income breeds laziness and risks inviting gangster corruption. The piece urges self control, urging readers to greet each day as a gentleman and avoid complaints and overindulgence.
The piece questions U S war readiness and debates if preparations are defensive or aimed at provoking Europe. It notes 3 6 million non citizens may soon file government information. It contrasts British forthrightness with French complacency and urges vigilance.
A digest of remarks warning against concentrating power in one leader and citing John Stuart Mill. The commentary notes dangers to liberty when a democracy entrusts unconstrained authority to a single individual. The piece references President and world power ambitions with a closing citation to Esther Jo Deily News.
Sunday preaching in Scranton and Pleasant Hill announced with attendance at the local Y for an agricultural meeting. Families, visits, and greetings shared among Chalupa, Kephart, Sigafoose and Turby households. Funeral services for Anton Chalupa held in Richmond. several relatives and friends visited homes in Shenandoah and Cedar Falls.
The term Bolshevik derives from the Russian word meaning larger or bigger. It split from the Menshevik faction as the more dominant group within the party from 1903 onward.
Local notes recount Sunday visits and family gatherings across multiple households. Mentions of Hadley Caldwell, Howard Wittrig, Darbyshire, Kephart, Beenblossom, and various kin spread through communities in Washington and surrounding areas with soup, ice cream, dinners, and reunions.
The nation’s health bill amounts to about 3.2 billion dollars annually, roughly two dollars per person, covering the population’s medical needs and public health expenditures.
SHILOH Aug 7 Mrs H J Schoonover records a weekend of visits as Bette Showalter departs Rock Island after a stay with the Schoonover family. Floyd Wagner and baby Paul Wayne of Moline saw Bette off, while Fae Lambert from Toledo Iowa and Mrs J R Tucker’s Sunday visits are noted along with Fae Schoonover hosting Headliners 4H club girls and leader Mrs Golia Mil.
A Bedford County note records visits from Walter Fox and family of Burlington to an Arter home near Crawfordsville on Wednesday. It also lists Mr and Mrs H J Schoor and Norman Grace Joan and Mrs Don Coats and David visiting Sunday afternoon at the Mode Harbvibon home.
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