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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1935
Page
8
A promotion touts a unique Baby's Gift department in Washington offering hundreds of infant and mother gifts. It promises expert gift wrapping at no extra charge when a gift is purchased along with wrapping materials.
Gene Autry will perform ten songs in The Sagebrush Troubadour with Smiley Burnette at the Fox theater Friday for days. The duo will sing close harmony and provide much of the music heard in the picture. Numbers include Way Out West in Texas End of the Trail On the Prairie My Prayer for Tonight I’d Love a Home in the Mountain Mississippi Valley Some Day in Wyoming. Many tunes were previously recorded by Autry.
The new Annie Oakley film uses Buffalo Bill’s arena as its vivid backdrop with forty six sets. Barbara Stanwyck portrays Oakley covering frontier life and European capitals, with exact re Creations from Ed Phillips’s Buffalo Bill show photos.
A fragment notes a tiny share of the global rubber supply, about two percent, implying limited extraction or export. The terse line lacks context on source, date, or specific producers.
In Louisa County the WPA approved 29 projects statewide, including a plan to repair and redecorate a structure in Columbus Junction for use as a city hall. The project will employ 12 people at a cost of 4 487 dollars.
Mrs. Hugh Morris and husband attended the International Livestock Show in Chicago where their Hereford placed seventh in the carload lots amid strong competition. Several local residents reported market trips, corn harvest notes, and Thanksgiving visits with family.
A fragmented item notes a moment of shift as a city scene or event veers, with unclear details yet indicating a notable change or decision affecting local life and prospects.
Rev J E Waery, formerly pastor at Olds, will broadcast weekly on Monday at 9 15 PM in a program titled Old Songs and New. Women's Guild officers for the coming year are President Ruth Kort, Vice President Mrs Cecil Kort, Secretary Mrs Ralph Gorham, and Treasurer Mrs Earle Miller. Many locals attended a drama, visits, and social events amid Thanksgiving activities and moving notices.
East Highland Dee May 5. Mr and Mrs Ray Steele and family visited the Geo Gobble home with Mr and Mrs Wayne Heft coat. Alice Ada Francis and Jackie came from Corning Iowa. The Misses Wilma and Ethel Mincer and Wilma Steele returned to work. Ethel Kilgore Wilma Steele Stevens and Wilma Mincer are noted workers. Guests from Minneapolis Mrs Lloyd Allbrecht visited with sisters from Minneapolis. The Murdock Mincer Wieland families shopped in Washington and other friends visited Frank Mineer and Odin Gaustad Traff Fisher Monday evening.
The column lists residents socializing at multiple homes Sunday and Monday evenings. Names include Joseph Mincer Lester Tree Odin Gaustad James Aubrecht and families Wieland Weber Yegay Lenequist Stober and others in Minnesota households.
The OCR fragment notes an early tapestry specimen dated to 1407 BCE found in Thebes, Egypt, during 1903 excavations at the tomb of Thutmose IV. The text is garbled but anchors to an ancient textile artifact and its Theban provenance.
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