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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1941
Page
8
A replica of the Rosetta Stone sits in the Smithsonian Institution while the original remains housed at the British Museum. The display contrasts the famed artifact with its modern scholarly surrogate.
State policeman Hernan Meierjurgan explained a glacial rock formation to a tourist party. A woman asked where the glaciers were, and the trooper replied they had gone back for more rock in a lighthearted moment from Tillamook, Oregon.
In a Memphis rail yard a group of Black men gather around a dominoes game at the center of a switchyard while listening to police calls on a portable radio. The scene mixes recreation with monitoring public safety chatter in a shared urban space.
The Little Bighorn location is famed as the place where General Custer and his entire command were killed by Sitting Bull and allied forces, a pivotal event in Native American and U.S. history.
Shining Victory a new drama by A J Cronin opens at the Fox Wednesday and Thursday. James Stephenson and Geraldine Fitzgerald star with Barbara O Neil Donald Crisp in supporting roles. The plot follows a young English doctor who develops a new method to cure disordered minds and his partnership with a brilliant assistant.
The performance portrays a masterful neurotic woman whose warped mind sparks tragedy for everyone she meets, delivering a vivid, historically celebrated screen portrayal with a standout cast.
The text traces colonists first traveling on foot, then using canoes and pinnaces modeled after birch bark craft or dugouts carved from hollowed pine. Horseback travel arrived later, marking gradual changes in transportation methods.
Italian portraits from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries show stylish women wearing uniform sets of rings. One figure displays three broad rings with diagonal red and white enamel. Another wears six twisted gold rings, each with a differently colored oval stone.
The present boundaries of the northwest portion of the United States were fixed by treaty with Great Britain in 1846.
Iowa State Fair opens with defense exhibits showing farm and meat products used in army rations. A commissary display from Washington compares Iowa farm foods with past war rations. The National Livestock and Meat Board presents an army nutrition exhibit on vitamins and health, while Iowa poultrymen highlight the state’s role in national defense with their industry showcase.
Corps headquarters at Omaha will send troops to the fair for daily demonstrations in front of the grandstand showing high speed jeeps anti-tank guns armored cars and machine guns. Highlights include a Britain knitting race and lectures on women’s defense with exhibits of uniforms and defense boards plus a victory arch and liberty statue at the main entrance.
Russell Swann says women prefer tricks that are explained and not baffling. He notes dentists and doctors often perform as amateurs, children resist being fooled, and some racketeers show interest in sleight of hand. Swann was born in Washington D C, suggesting conjuring came naturally.
A science advocate argues molasses is superior to spinach for children, claiming higher iron content and better nutrition in a society brief.
The Iowa State Commerce Commission will hear Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative Davenport request to erect and operate electric transmission facilities across public lands highways streams and private lands in Washington County Iowa. Hearing set September 9 1941 at 10 am in Des Moines. Objections must be filed in triplicate at least five days before hearing.
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