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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1941
Page
4
Today’s Bible Thought Thursday reflects on parental wisdom with the verse Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right from Ephesians 6 1. The note encourages honoring parents as time proves their guidance true.
The piece reflects on 4-H Club activities as a source of steady education and national resilience. It cites oil and gasoline production, military implications, and the West Liberty Fair memories. It also discusses bread choices, health, and intemperance with reflections from Bruce Barton and Euripides.
Barbara Rogers reported her purse missing from the Securities building. Jesse R. Mershon, 20, confessed to taking the pocketbook containing $4.63 to fund a spending spree and was arrested at the Paramount theater. She identified him as the loiterer in her hall.
United States daily sausage consumption totals $864000 in value per year. The figure underscores widespread sausage use across households and restaurants nationwide.
A lighthearted column compiles jokes about a shaggy bear, a presidential call to Washington, a diplomat nominee at a reception in which a widow worries about age, and couples with comic misunderstandings. The tone mimics a midcentury newspaper feature of quick quips and social banter.
A collection of short humorous lines and exchanges from Scottish lore and office life. Jokes cover Dictionary definitions of oats, a busy bee lesson, wage raise talk, misdirected telephones, wives and husbands, drunk dialogue, a coughing patient, and mailbox pocket habits.
Kay Hardy of Chicago plans a vacation visit with her mother Mrs. Ama Hardy. Rev and Mrs M A Robeson and daughter Betty Anne from Cot ter return home after visiting Chicago. Laura Longwell and granddaughters Joanne Siegle spend today in Oskaloosa with friends. Ruth Cunningham to receive vocational certificate August 28 after summer sessions at Iowa State College. Birthday gathering for Milt Denison at Dale Denison home. Betty Morris of Council Bluffs visits grandparents in town for two weeks. Tom Sterling family hosts T J Stirling, cousins who had not seen each other for years. Agnes Wheelan vacationing in Britt with Dr E F Wheelan’s family. Mrs S Rothschild and JoEllen Margolin dine with Mrs Dora Chapman in Iowa City. Margolin returns home to Yankton. Maurice Mayo and wife from Schenectady stay two weeks with Mayo parents. Dave Falk of Chicago visits, bringing Helen and Clara Ann Falk home after weeks with Chicago relatives.
A wry line notes the universality of deadlines and the futility of forming bonds with them. The quip frames deadlines as unrelenting and humorously unavoidable in daily life.
Newton O Loughlin delivered a bouquet of pink and purple asters to the Journal office this morning. He grows the flowers in his garden on East Second Street.
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