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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1938
Page
7
A local newspaper ad urges readers to place a want ad to maximize value. It highlights a minimum 25 cent charge and promises substantial reach during the quarter, encouraging investment in classifieds.
Verne Davis agent license 7 offers prompt dead stock removal services for farmers with toll-call reimbursement. Brighton 70 contact.
Subscription Representative D. F. Macon reports brief notes from nearby towns, highlighting local events, business updates, and community short items sourced from area papers and letters.
Miss Winifred Carris of Des Moines sends her home news subscription to local friends. N. L. Black provided their usual review and his sister Helen subscribes from Indianapolis Indiana. Gratitude expressed to both parties.
An informal and garbled exchange hints at a planned encounter or trade, with one party asserting others are crazy and suggesting a local arrival or town visit. The text lacks concrete names, dates, or events to specify.
A collection of short anecdotes and social notes from Kalona and nearby towns. Mentions include Darnell’s chicken house, Joe Hines's hog venture, a courtship marriage after years, Santa Claus sightings around Dale Jackson, and Wayside Inn’s roof renovation. Also references a Stutsman sale with speaker Dave Yoder.
A humorous slice of small town life from Kalona with neighbors, shop talk, and a joke about a mismeasured pillow case. The column mentions Pete Witting the harness maker, local banks closing, a kitchen cafe visit, and notes on residents like John Glick Dan P. Yoder Roscoe Kolosick and the Lukavsky family. It ends with a farmer joke about a windmill and pigs.
Collier's Weekly notes that the first of Buddhism's five precepts is nonviolence toward all living beings. It states Buddhism has largely avoided religious warfare since its founding about 2,300 years ago, despite adherents forming about one-fifth of the world population.
The Klondike is an indefinite Yukon district in northwestern Canada bordering Alaska. It lies mainly south of the Klondike River which flows into the Yukon at Dawson City from the east.
The procedure tests woolen fabric by boiling in caustic soda solution. Wool dissolves into a jelly like mass while any cotton present remains intact.
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