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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1977
Page
4
Editorial page reflects on Christian messages from Matthew 11 28 29 urging rest for the laboring and humility in work. Quotations attribute calm guidance from Christ Jesus and a Morley sentiment about expressing love in moments of finality. The piece frames moral reflection for readers in a faith tone.
In August 1968 Washington Evening Journal a story follows a local banker who assists a young woman buying a car. She asks for help disposing of a broken toilet stool left on her porch by pranksters. He suggests placing the stool in her old car and handing it to the dealer as a gag.
An English factory owner’s early Industrial Revolution list offers blunt rules for workers. The Ten Demandments urge honesty, diligent work, debt avoidance, self-respect, and loyalty, warning that dishonesty and dissipation harm profit and tenure.
The list expands slang usage of bug beyond irritate to include insect germ covert mic defect fan shutterbug compact car and eyes widen as a verb. It notes eight quick senses with examples and hints at common misreadings.
A reader laments summer tree removal by crews and sprayers needed for development. She recalls Joyce Kilmer’s line that only God makes a tree and notes four trees near her daily life were felled for new construction, implying neighbor Rolly Crandall’s words at their graves.
A court forces a witness to testify against a friend of Will Bernard Miller, rejecting claims of confidential lodge ties. The piece discusses the civic duty to testify, with examples from England and U.S. courts, noting exceptions for doctor klient clergy confidences and attorney client privilege.
The passage explores alphabetic order quirks, word formation puzzles like priest anagrams, and contrasts in usage such as shipment versus cargo. It cites trivia on probability of golf hole in one versus bowling strikes, Egyptian Christians, Cotopaxi, barnacles on whales, and historic tech timelines, ending with an address and copyright note.
In a complex bridge deal West leads king of spades and keeps four. South after ruffing Easts ace and drawing trumps notes a potential squeeze and employs a Vienna Coup to set up the position. The defense with West covering eight spades at trick two saves, preventing the squeeze and yielding a tricky endgame lesson.
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