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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1946
Page
4
The piece argues for divine creation over random chance, claiming the universe lacks orderly accidents. It cites Genesis 1:1 to support the view that God created the heavens and the earth, asserting that every effect requires a cause.
A 1940 commentary criticizes CPA delays blocking a Joyce factory in Washington Iowa while listing approvals in Mount Pleasant Burlington Fairfield Ottumwa Muscatine and Oskaloosa totaling over 1 million. It contrasts rising living costs with 1846 prices and scarce soil pipe reports. It warns government buckpassing harms enterprise and notes frontier life hardships.
Vital statistics for 1946 show a surge in births as many families welcomed new members. The report reflects a nationwide rise in birth rates with significant activity across several states and cities.
A letter column and miscellaneous jovial remarks span dating, marriage, and manners. A youth boasted of dates with a nurse, a nurse-vs-mother quip surfaces, and a reader questions a fifty-year-old father's remarriage. A playful rant about mustard on waffles and lemon pie closes the collection.
The second man taunts the battered fighter as he mutters about sending for a private detective. The fighter questions the need while the companion says the detective will help locate the opponent he's been trying to hit in the last nine rounds.
In a Boston report, Janice J. Kilroy of Halifax is identified as the man who started the worldwide Kilroy slogan. Kilroy, not a G I, says he wrote Silrey was here while working at Bethlehem Steel’s Fore River yard in 1942 and later boarded ships like the Baltimore and the Lexington. The American Transit Association plans to present him with a vintage Boston Elevated trolley to use as a home for his six rooms of children.
A printed slogan on many metall beams aboard ships prompted workers to plaster the prankster's name on several fighting ships leaving Bethlehem yards. The reveal came via the Mutual Broadcasting system during a nationwide Spotlight of America search by the American Transit association and local transit firms. The text also mentions an offbeat, cheeky refrain about a pure girl and a dog’s remark after tobacco.
Des Moines reports that two fifths of $6,969,805 from the one cent gas tax will be released to Iowa cities and towns once funds move from two Iowa City banks. District Judge Harold Evans ordered the money released with checks delayed 15 days. By year’s start officials expect distributions for street and secondary road construction per the 1945 law.
Des Moines December 18. About 160 Iowa sportsmen urged nine changes to hunting and trapping laws at a conservation commission meeting. Proposals include uniform fishing licenses across Iowa and border states, later pheasant season start, park authority for towns, ending June 15 artificial lake fishing, authorized minnow seining, and separate licenses for hunting and fishing priced at $1.50 each.
A brief note on a puzzling natural phenomenon where all male white cats with blue eyes are deaf, described as a strange sex linked mystery of nature.
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