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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1931
Page
4
Mildred Polton of Ainsworth shares an embarrassing family moment involving her six year old sister Helen at a dinner gathering. The girl defies adult talk by saying devil, prompting laughter and a request for fifty cents.
A teacher asks about differences between results and consequences. A quick bright pupil says results are what you expect while consequences are what you get. A stenographer asks about pies and a joke about budgeting ends with a husband and wife balancing funds too late to go anywhere.
Report from Chautauqua on elections for Junior Town officers shows a bold candidate calling for corruption. The scene was settled by the forces of Good as yellow buttons indicate Fall Festival support with Carl Klein bearing heavy responsibility for this year’s event.
The New Yorker recounts a royal Rome wedding with three kings and two queens present plus two former kings and three former queens. A gambler notes the second full house was drawn from the discard in the observation.
Ricardo Cortez Kay Francis and Paul Cavanagh lead Transgressional at the State with Ruth Chatterton in The Magnificent Lie. Laura La Plante shifts to romance in Arizona. John Wayne June Clyde and Forrest Stanley co star in a dramatic week of films.
The Fox theater schedules include The Reckless Hour with Dorothy Mackaill Conrad Nagel and Water Lyron on Monday and Tuesday. The Great Lover starring Adolphe Menjou Tree Dunne Ernest Torrence Neil Hamilton Badanova and Cliff Edwards plays Wednesday and Thursday. Too Many Cooks, a Radio Pictures comedy with Bev Wheeler and Dorothy Lee, screens today and Saturday.
The annual Bell reunion was held at the George Bell home north of Wellman on Sunday August 9 with a large crowd and a noon picnic. Attendees from Wellman included Eardley Bell Sr John Greswell Miss Ellen Greswell Fardiey Bell Jr John Bell and Mr and Mrs George Well.
Washington observers say bread demand fuels Cuba’s unrest amid world sugar decline. Four-fifths of exports are sugar. prices plummeted from 20 cents to 1.5 cents per pound by 1930, causing mass unemployment and poverty. A plan by American Thomas Chadbourne aims to sell surplus over five years while Cuba shifts to diversify crops and build domestic manufacturing behind tariffs.
A long OCR fragment lists numerous Bell family members and in laws from multiple towns across Iowa and Washington. The names include Leslie Bell, Mr and Mrs Marion Bell, Donald and Richard Bell, Amy Glass, Mary Glass, Margaret Glass, Theodore Ressler, Isaac Sprague, Alva Bell, Elaine, Marie, Bertha, Arden, Wilbur Bell, Ray Bell, Raymond, Allison Bell, Koppenhimer, Barker, and Dean and Eard.
Mr. and Mrs. George Stahl and Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Ross with Russell spent the summer vacation traveling in the west and have returned home. The Sordens, who stayed at the Ross house, will relocate to the Nichols property soon.
The custom of wearing black for mourning began with Anne queen of Charles VIII of France after her husband died in 1498. She surrounded her coat of arms with black to signify widowhood and wore black herself, opposing the prior white widow attire.
A Washington business leader asks residents to report experiences of indifferent or discourteous service in local stores to help prepare a forthcoming Journal announcement. He invites compliments as well and promises details in a big notice to come Monday.
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