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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1948
Page
5
A Journal office note highlights nasturtiums from yellow to maroon, a Grand Lake Lodge trip at 9000 feet, wool blankets, and a stove fire ritual. It recalls Roosevelt quotes, a Cambridge Nebraska dam dedication, and local reflections on winter bangs and Nebraska highways.
Tales keep circulating about lightning and thunderbolts as charms. In Europe thousands of objects believed to be thunderbolts are kept in rural homes as protections against various harms.
In Elkader Duane Feller found a rock shaped like a shoe whose outer layer split when removed. A summer resident joked of a hot knee after a car fire. A ring found by James Lawler in Ogden, dated 1891, returns to Ellen Coyle who died in 1909. A Nashua man recovered a $300 loss by retracing steps at Will Harnish farm.
Charles Bear former Time Life publishing representative in Europe now based at Rockefeller Center New York spent Sunday and Monday visiting his brother Clayton Bear in Washington and relatives He described Rockefeller Center housing 28 000 workers 125 000 daily visitors 490 foot height and 23 restaurants Radio City Music Hall and a 6000 seat theater Bear oversees foreign exchange for the firm whose magazines reach every country except Russia where circulation is limited Fourteen million U S workers in 40 000 firms had group life insurance last year.
Lone Tree hosts a September 9 and 10 Fall Festival with speeches by Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidates Switzer and Beardsley scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sept. 9. The event features rides concessions a radio troupe softball tournament an agricultural show and band concerts led by the Chamber of Commerce chaired by Ralph R Hudachek.
The Library of Congress and the National Archives presented 20 rolls of microfilm to the Mexican government via the U S Embassy in Mexico. The material covers American diplomatic relations with Mexico before 1906.
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