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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1941
Page
8
A classifieds note promotes developing and printing rolls for 25 cents each. The short ad invites customers to bring their film to the shop for quick processing and prints.
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with continued cool Wednesday conditions. Hogs trade volume 13 000 with top price 11.85 per hundredweight.
Snowball news notes 84 year old Mrs. Whiting who displays second sight reading and crocheting without glasses. She has completed many religious books by a single author and is making handkerchiefs for a Presbyterian bazaar.
Walter Kyle family visited John Deere tractor factory at Waterloo last week. A sudden stop caused minor injuries to Mrs Kyle. she recovers. Kyle family members, Florence and Naomi, are working while Walter rests in Hot Springs for treatment.
A local reminiscence blends social quirks with wartime notes. An old fashioned medical view clashes with modern care while a future with nurses and teachers returning is hinted. Vignettes include auction bids, fashioning plasma from casein, Catherine-like anecdotes, and a memorial to Major General Adna R. Chaffee.
The text notes blinking rates vary from 2 to 30 blinks per minute with higher rates under emotional stress. A blink typically lasts about one fifth of a second. It mentions individual variation in blinking frequency.
An eagle escaped from a Leningrad zoo caused street noise and car horns. The eagle sped back toward the zoo and landed on an elephant, which recoiled and sent the bird into a corner, ending the chase.
Riverside residents gather for a shower in Iowa City for Charlene Draker hosted by Mrs Clarence Dietsch with co host R H Kline. VisitorsMary Bauer visits in Iowa City at Mrs Francis Sueppel's home. William Shadla of Kalona visits Riverside. Sisters Mary Lucine and Mary Rufina visit from Washington and Chicago, former Riverside residents Esther and Margaret Dautremont. Constance Pailliotet and Max
Kenneth Rummelhart of Iowa City, son of Mr and Mrs Glenn Rummelhart, visited Muscatine this week with his grandparents Mr and Mrs L G Rummelhart.
The Columbus Canning company near Columbus Junction cans tomatoes at 100 cases per hour. Over 40 locals employed, 120 acres of tomatoes grown by nearby farmers. Canning season spans August through October. Kenneth McCoy is plant manager.
Edward Price Richards appears in court to legally become Barbara Ann Richards. Dr H Kersten testifies Richards shows both male and female traits, female predominance. Richards married Lorraine Wilcox last November, who urged a feminine status for her spouse.
An estimate places about 30 000 Hessians hired by Britain to oppose the American colonists during the Revolutionary War.
Scientists note the sun at about 9 000 degrees Fahrenheit is cooler than some arcs. Carbon arcs approach high temps, tungsten arcs reach about 11 300 degrees, and certain welding arcs spike to around 13 000 degrees.
The Wa Kindigas, an ehivi group near extinction in British East Africa, do not build huts. They seek brush shelters under trees in dry weather and move to mountain caves during the rainy season according to Natural History.
A study cited by the Bee ter Vision Institute notes some fish can move one eye independently of the other. They fixate one eye on an object while the second eye roams the surroundings.
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