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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1929
Page
3
A condensed Saturday page surveys Iowa politics, flood damage, road work, and conservation rules, noting Hammill’s actions on licensing and park plans, a Des Moines highway project, and farm youth events. It covers air crashes, a Cedar Rapids injury, police investigations, and state tax and utility matters.
In Washington and nearby, readings include a golf grounds match at five, a birthday party for Lorene Klothin by thirty friends, and police announcing Sunset Park will be watched to curb disorderly conduct. Council plans paving on South Law Avenue at a rate of $1.69 per square yard.
Review of local events Monday evening's meeting notes tax rate passage and a series of obituaries and retirements. Announcements include Ella Reitan resigning as county hospital superintendent. Ervin G. Ragenold's death in Zanesville Ontario. Frank Frazier hospitalized after a car crash. and various civic activities at Sunset Park and the Dutch Creek fair with budget plans and festival preparations.
A theater listing details Fannie Brice in My Man and the vaudeville sketch Weary River plus twin Reds and a hospital of romance. The block includes multiplex acts, location notes, and a standard Warner Bros program with talking features. A separate news item mentions a fatal tanker explosion at Rockefeller Pier 6 of Standard Oil.
The piece traces ninety years of Washington County history from early Iowa settlement to the rise and fall of planned towns. It recalls 19th century founders at Winchester Sandy Hook Pottsville and River City, names pioneers, railroads and trading posts, and notes districts like Glendora Genoa Mount Pleasant Rochester and Whiskey Run, ending with a reflection on vanished city dreams.
A string of incidents crosses nations from smoke and flame in Kosmosdale Kentucky to a mysterious blaze killing seven in Kansas City. A Graf Zeppelin visit headlines military air station activity while Wilson era style news touches poisoning charges, political moves on liquor, and global tensions with Russia and China. Weather and fire events mix with obituaries as nations grapple with sudden disasters.
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