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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1935
Page
8
Jack Holt blasts through Columbia drama Awakening off Jim Burke showing at the Fox this week. The rugged two faced engineer must choose between a give me girl and a take me girl as he seeks love and success in a perilous tale of danger.
The Panther Woman Kathleen Burke and Florence Rice spark a drama around engineer Holt. The film features Jimmy Butler as Holt’s troubled son and Wyrley Birch as Miss Rice’s father with Robert Middlemass and Ralph Remiley in supporting roles.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer presents Pursuit a comedy romance about carefree adventure on the open road starring Chester Morris and Sally Eilers. The film comes to the State theater for Wednesday and Thursday showings offering light humor sequences and lively chase scenes.
Daily and Sunday train departures and arrivals listed for multiple lines including Golden State Limited Apache and Illinois Central routes. Notes specify stops for California passengers and county-seat discharges plus several local freight and mixed trains with times for Washington and nearby stations.
The Ringling Bros Barnum Bailey Circus announces a 1935 program to arrive in Iowa City on September 3 with Col Tim McCoy leading a Sioux Crow and Shawnee Indian Village. The show features 31 tents a seven ring arena a 1600 seat car herd and the world’s largest traveling menagerie including Mary the rhinoceros and a range of foreign acts and aerial troupes.
A young couple smuggles a child across state lines amid a guardianship dispute. Their road adventures span auto camps barns farms a veterinary hospital and other stops along the route from San Francisco to the Mexican border. Morris plays the aviator and Elle aids as partner with Little Scotty Beckett delivering a notable performance.
Police seek a thin man across the far west after the partly clad body of Gladys Glenn Fair a blond naval clerk was found in the bathroom of her Long Beach California apartment shot through the back of the head.
In Brighton on Sunday the Junior Choir led the Methodist church service with scripture read by Billy Kraemer an offertory duet by Mildred and Audrey Helmick with autoharp and a special choir chorus. Nearby families and visitors were noted including the Kessel move and various local visits to Fairfield St Charles Des Moines Mitchell and Colorado Springs destinations.
Mrs. Mary Gowey travels from Mor day to Richland to spend winter with Mrs Mary Long. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Saunders visit at L. E. Bidwell home in Wellman. Mrs Kraemer Mrs C W Francis and Mrs Anna Chamberlain of Muscatine visit N F Kraemer in Muscatine. Francis grandchildren Bill and Dick Combs of St Louis join at Muscatine home. They depart for Lancaster Wisconsin with Mrs Will Kraemer.
Jerome Crain and Linda, aboard a yacht owned by Thomas Tucker, land on a strange island near San Cristobal after escaping quarantine. They explore a well furnished but deserted estate with mysterious locked chests and a stocked store room while clues suggest a hidden owner wary of intruders. The pair sense danger as an eerie cry emerges from the jungle.
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