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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1975
Page
4
Editorial notes reflect on juvenile crime in a Northern Iowa city court and propose a simple rule: keep hands off others and their property. The piece weaves in quotes from Gibran and Auden and muses on language roots, ending with a playful shout about pigs.
Cedar Rapids Gazette notes 74 interim study requests filed with the legislative council as lawmakers seek pay for committee work and push efforts to review topics from dog care to Red Rock and Coralville reservoir effects. The piece highlights pay incentives and the need for depth on medical malpractice insurance, social services efficiency, and related reforms.
A dated discourse on hog calling sounds and a legislative push to act on long-standing studies. It questions the value of further research versus implementing existing findings, noting budget and staff limits and the need for legislative interest.
A reader shares a neighbor’s request to take a urine sample for the wife, sparking Abby’s caution about boundaries, then a Vegas best man tale about staged divorces, and Nora’s look back at 1900s nursing hardships contrasted with modern RN demands.
The entry notes celestial signs Mars Jupiter Saturn in the morning and Mercury Venus in the evening. It lists Leo birthdates and commemorates Lucy Stone born August 13 1818. It cites Alfred Hitchcock born August 13 1899 and historic milestones from 1923 Yes We Have No Bananas to 1980 speed record LA to NYC in 12 hours 25 minutes.
A London publisher holds a safe with a tin box containing dozens of parchment envelopes each bearing a Byron era hair lock, a girl's name, and a conquest date. One envelope in Byron's hand reads Foovriaht 1812 and “Whose this was I don’t recollect.”
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