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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1940
Page
3
The note cites 2 Chronicles and comments on radio access in Italy, conscription talk, and moisture rainfall. It urges attending the 4 11 Achievement Show in Washington for optimism. It notes Nazi book burnings of Czech history and describes farm life adjustments from recent rains.
Opinion excerpt argues for prefab five room houses as a solution to housing needs and cites a half million homes per year. It warns high debt could threaten freedom and questions Senator Pepper's critique of Lindbergh while opposing war powers in peacetime.
Dr and Mrs Moor heard two loud claps of thunder and saw a floor lamp snap on after a vivid lightning display last Monday evening. The Moor family mourns the loss of their Springer pup to pneumonia, a sudden illness they only realized was serious too late.
Ainsworth area item notes Joan Schmoeller, a cooperative ten year old, went uptown to buy shoes but chose a dress for her three year old cousin Peggy Anderson instead. The column also shares light humor and local notices from area residents.
A former Journal employee Grace Lyte in California shares a playful catechism about Southern California. It extols Los Angeles as the climatic capital of the United States and compares its fame to paradise and Eden, noting boosters and visitors from the East flocking to the city.
The city manager plan began around 1908 with Dayton Ohio adopting it in 1913 as the first large city to implement the system.
Irene Dunne and Cary Grant reunite for the sophisticated marital comedy My Favorite Wife. The plot centers on a wife shipwrecked seven years earlier and a husband who remarries, then the wife returns on a honeymoon day causing a raucous love triangle with Randolph Scott as the island companion.
Edward G. Robinson returns to prime form in Brother Orchid at the Fox Theatre. The gangster comedy lampoons underworld figures with sharp wit as Robinson portrays a crime boss who masquerades as a monk to outmaneuver rivals.
United States ambassador to Belgium Joan Cudahy arrives in New York from Europe greeted by Mrs. Cudahy and children Michael 16 Mary 19. He had been ordered home by the state department after a London interview claiming Nazi conquered states would face famine without American intervention.
Robinson leads a zany cast including Atta Sothern as a hat cheek girl who takes a tip Humphrey Bogart as a double crossing henchman Ralph Bellamy as an alfalfa grower with a hidden bankroll Allen Jenkins as Willie the Knife and Lloyd Bacon directs from a screenplay by Earl Baldwin based on a Collier magazine story by Richard Connell.
The article notes Wolf 457 as a new star with an estimated specific weight so immense that one cubic inch of its matter would weigh about 18,000,000 pounds. This emphasizes extraordinary density and the star's remarkable properties.
Hitler's Mein Kampf was among 1 321 books officially recommended by the British War Office for sending to troops at the front. The list includes political and literary works intended to educate and inspire soldiers during the conflict.
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