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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1936
Page
4
A devotional note cites Luke 11 11 asking if a father would give a stone to a son who asks for bread and a fish for a fish. It adds a proverb that a man is known by the company he keeps, and a company is known by the men it keeps, attributed to The Anode.
An opinion piece weighs Edward VIII’s abdication for love and the allure of Wallis Simpson. It contrasts royal power and personal choice with historical echoes of Henry VIII, noting the event’s unprecedented impact and lasting historical significance.
Ex king Edward VIII publicly declares he abdicated for love of Wallie of Baltimore. He vows to relinquish the throne rather than marry under English law, signaling loyalty to the new king and ending with a final salute. This dramatic moment, a potential immortal romance in future histories.
A Burlington Free Press piece defends Vermont voters against stereotypes. It argues Vermonters value proof before embracing ideas, weigh taxes on landowners, and favor hard work over quick gains, noting land ownership shapes economic views and general skepticism remains.
Henry Ford argues true security comes from knowledge experience and ability not hoarded wealth. Emergencies underlie progress as darkness leads to lamps fog to compass hunger pushes exploration and low moods reveal the value of work.
A Washington woman reports a robin in her apple tree and calls neighbors to verify. Pen Eldridge speculates on King Edward VIII joining the Republican party in America. Four sale locations promote 1937 By Ways booklet and three porch decorating prizes at Occasion Seed Store. A man bets on matches versus cash, revealing 185 matches and $175.
Two Washington girls named Helen drew each other for a Christmas exchange at a club meeting. They kept their picks secret until the exchange night and found they had chosen identical gifts for each other and wrapped them in the same paper, a rare coincidence.
A letter to the Washington Evening Journal proposes one word titles like Time and Life and suggests changing the paper to Simplicity with a Blah column. It includes aphorisms on buying choices and a poem about longing, love, and the harshness of reality, signed Betty and Sir Percival.
Des Moines dispatch reports Democrats launch two more election contests in Muscatine and Hardin counties, raising total seat challenges to five as Republicans filed three. Contests could delay speaker selection and boost Senate action before House votes.
Van Buren county Loren I. Peey Republican contests J H O Neill Democrat by 62 votes. Clarke county J R Campbell Republican contests Lloyd Woods Democrat by 5 votes. Prominent Republican speakers include Blue B B Hickenlooper Roy Sours and Dewey Goode. Democratic figures include Foster LeRoy Merce FE Maniece C L Rice Thomas Stimpson Eugene Reilly.
A new lacquer like product on the market creates decorative effects on glass and metal. It comes in gold, silver, copper, amber, green and white among other shades and dries quickly as it crystallizes in unusual patterns.
Tapirs are shy, inoffensive animals with three types located in Central and South America and a fourth type in Malaya. In South America they live on the edge of forests, feeding on new growth, loving water, and staying clean. Natives hunt them for hides and flesh. jaguars and panthers are their natural enemies. They are about the size of a large calf.
An odd water storing tree called the Traveler's Palm grows in Madagascar and Borneo. Its trunk sprouts fan like leaves with a basal sheath that stores water for thirsty passers by to drink. The leaves also supply materials for building native huts.
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