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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1941
Page
4
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The article notes thousands of women rush to hosiery counters amid silk shortages while men remain less fashion focused. It contrasts male indifference to neckties with women’s heightened style concerns and mentions other odds and ends about pneumonia mortality drops and northern fishing adventures.
The piece argues future utopias fail without linking to the past and warns against sacrificing liberty for security. It cites a peace-time federal debt around fifty billion dollars and cautions against eroding free enterprise while building military strength for defense.
An Industrial News Review essay argues that free enterprise must anchor representative government and warn against state control of key industries. It cites U S wartime ideology and warns defeat if private enterprise and constitutional liberty are weakened, then notes a German Russian war update from Vichy predicting Ukraine harvest impacts.
The Associated Press reports on Monday that about 14,500 Army and Navy Department employees were dismissed at 1 p.m. as temperatures neared 100 degrees, part of a state of all out defense with offices closing for the afternoon. Hutchinson Herald.
A tax bill provision for cutting non-defense expenditures was removed as irrelevant and politically unnecessary. Rey Scott, back from China, notes Chinese value freedom over life.
A fragment from Ham Fisher’s Joe Palooka strip shows dialogue between characters about expenses and central matters. The note hints at comic exchange and a trio portion of the ongoing sequence.
A lighthearted piece contrasts Eve and modern dress, a landlady and boarder exchange quips about apples and change. A banker envies a gardener for his sunlit work, imagining the comfort of office walls and fresh air.
A collage of brief humorous exchanges shows quirky lines about hats baths weddings and mail deliveries. Characters include Milliner Pardon Rachel Roger and family members sharing gags about tongues electricity fortunes and forgotten bathing suits.
Community notes record visits and travels among local families including Mrs. Clara Godlove and cousins from New ark Ohio and Washington. Ethel and Vivian Booth attend a reunion in Sunset Park while others visit relatives, travel to Des Moines and Waterloo, and attend funeral services for Arnold Morrison.
A Juneau Wisconsin resident has patented a gear-shift lever to be attached beneath an automobile steering wheel to operate the regular gear-shift pedal.
A vain Chicago lawyer in a courtroom is mocked for his baldness as he cross examines a woman about a maid. He asks about a boudoir, she replies she was fixing her hair, he says he wore a toupee, she retorts I don't wear a toupee.
An automobile driver traveling 40 miles an hour cannot read most direction signs. At that speed a car covers 59 feet per second and the average person needs about one seventh of a second to see an object clearly.
A Washington dentist left his card saying The Doctor is In Please Be Seated when he went to lunch. A boy with a toothache waited an hour and a half for the door to open before the doctor returned. Local notes report travel, illness, and a river of small-town events.
Announcement notes the annual fall opening of Washington stores to be held next month. Details of the program are being worked out and will be announced.
Before her last sickness she received full care from her husband. Sons and daughters visited often and wished to take them home. She visited many specialists. Oliver Todd praises their devoted children. Mrs Todd valued independence and home life. nurses were hired to keep them there. They mourned two daughters and one son who died earlier. Their pastor Rev George Kerr was away, so Rev Carl Klein led the service this afternoon.
Use a double drip pot made of pottery or aluminum and a drip grind coffee. Rinse units with hot water, bring added water to a galloping bed then pour over coffee in the upper receptacle. Wait for it to drip into the lower pot, then keep hot with an asbestos mat on low heat or a pan of hot water. Fine flavor but time consuming.
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