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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1941
Page
4
A 1941 Bible Thought notes that God hears the righteous in both good and bad times. It cites Proverbs 15 29 and urges readers not to drift from faith so they cannot feel his touch. Jehovah remains distant from the wicked.
The travel letter describes an Icelandic journey from Reykjavik to Hafnarfjordur, detailing flooded lava fields, salt stacked fish, washing rooms with forty women, and a look at local fishing culture. The writer notes unionized women earning five to seven dollars daily, and ponders the ethical shift from subsistence to commercialized fishing. The voyage continues toward Hammerfest with a note on its Arctic latitude and midnight sun.
Eleanor Jane Brieg daughter of W F Brieg and Edward D Ayers son of G W Ayers were married in Santa Monica on August 27. Ayers a Douglas Aircraft employee and Columbus High School and Cornell College alumnus. Brieg specializes in interior decorating. Separate notice: Betty Dean Smith and Vernon Chatfield wed August 29 in Memphis Missouri parsonage with Rev Wilbur Longstreth officiating.
A humorous exchange unfolds as Mrs. Jones and Mrs. James tease Mrs. Jones over a hat purchase while a student and professor exchange quips about cause and effect. The brief reads like a light newswire vignette of social anecdotes and classroom bravado.
A brief note urges individuals to model careful driving, arguing personal conduct shapes broader road safety. It emphasizes self-discipline, alertness, and adherence to traffic rules as key to reducing accidents.
A terse exchange unfolds as a boy offers twenty cents worth of liver to a shopkeeper who replies with five cents in change. The boy’s father promises to bring a quarter in the morning.
A dialogue shows Mrs Jinks praising Dr Thomas for perseverance likened to Patience on a monument. The husband worries about monuments on his patients. Nick, Gill, Ruth, and Helen tease, discuss care, affection, and value, with light humor about romantic odds and a shiny start.
A fragmentary verse notes a speedy man who dodges danger and meets a grim end when his car stalls on a railroad track. The piece shifts to a playful dialogue about marriage and travel, ending with a cryptic pun about bigamy amid transit chatter.
The Bible defines pure religion as visiting orphans and widows in their affliction and keeping oneself unstained from the world, according to James chapter 1 verse 27. These words set a standard for compassionate deeds paired with moral purity.
The Steele family reunion and picnic occurred yesterday at Sunset Park with a noon meal. Attendees include Karen Kay Kauffman with her parents and grandparents, plus numerous Steeles and related families from Washington Columbus Junction Ainsworth Riverside Kalona Has dkins Fairfield and other towns.
Kenneth Freeman will head the Washington junior college education department replacing Harry Bowles. Freeman, a Northeast State Teachers College alum and former Columbia elementary principal, plans practical, observation based courses Education I and Education III focusing on rural teaching and school management to prepare graduates for county certification.
Eunice Hammer Waymack travels to Silver City New Mexico and attends a turkey dinner in Stutsman home with eight guests. Multiple local families host visitors and recall Labor Day trips, trains late runs, and military veterans activities across Ames and surrounding towns.
Instructions advise soaking new flannels in cold water with a handful of salt for a quarter hour before washing. This pre treatment makes washing easier and helps the items look beautiful when dry.
An account describes a world history teaching session in Easton at Waterloo. The narrative mentions a companion mother and two individuals, We k. PD. Morrison sr and Eben, with unclear roles or full names due to OCR gaps.
The text excerpts Kingsley praising tobacco, calling it a low man's companion a bachelor’s friend a hungry man’s food a sad man’s cordial a wakeful man’s sleep and a chilly man’s fire noting no herb like it under heaven’s canopy.
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