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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1937
Page
4
A collection of quotations and reflections on work faith and progress. Highlights include Hebrews 6 10 on God not forgetting labor of love and thoughts from Franklin Garbutt and Charles F Kettering on industry progress and motion.
The piece recalls dramatic changes from twenty years ago in beauty culture. It notes the rise of beauty shops from a $60 permanent wave to a nationwide boom with 65,000 shops, $200 million in annual business, $60 million in wages, and $100 million in lipstick sales, highlighting how trends and prices have shifted.
A reflective piece compares past and present leadership ages in major businesses. It notes the average chief executive age shifted from 61 years to 56 over time, suggesting younger leaders gain from prior generations' experience. The author warns against complacency but expects continued progress as newer leaders avoid common mistakes.
A cross‑road country editor recounts impressions from Chicago describing a well‑dressed elderly man collecting cigarette stubs, an elder’s streetcar ride, and a humorous false trade involving a six cent bar of soap against a penny as the city’s oddities unfold in a short reflective vignette.
The piece riffs on a penny economy and everyday temptations from a cheap steak at three dollars to one cent books. It notes a large retailer, a famed cafe, and a drug store hanky hunt while critiquing strip teasers and public nudity as common in urban life. It ends with a wry jab about Chicago’s quiet weekends and a missing corpse.
Edgar A. Guest poem recalls a long marriage from youth to old age and the wife’s light rebuke of cluttered pockets and a stained tie as he reflects on changing roles and affection. The piece contrasts past pride with current domesticity and mutual care.
Bruce Stiles defends the crow as an active forager of crop pests and grasshoppers. He notes crows eat many insects and could aid agriculture, warning against total depletion. Also shares a fall find of Giant Puff-balls, tasty fried in butter with white, bread-like interiors.
Dr Glenn Frank warns that concentrating power in Washington risks drift toward either the Fascist right or the Community left, depending on who holds the reins of national leadership at any time.
Gene Thomas of Washington Key, now on Des Moines Register photography staff, visited the Journal office and recalled a headline snafu where a girl running away was titled Flees In Father's Pants. A misprint on flees would have made the line even clearer.
Mrs. W. FE. Bond wife of the Montgomery Ward manager stars as Grand Island Nebraska ladies ping pong champion. An observed match shows her powerful drive and skill, drawing praise from local spectators. A separate blurb notes a Playboy heir seeking a new stenographer after a costly breakup.
A vignette lists washday trials including a sudden high wind a broken clothes line and the empty starch box as unexpected guests arrive before lunch time.
The fragment describes parents pacing the floor at home and questions where their sons and daughters are. It ponders children of parents, possibly eight decades ago, and reflects on family concerns in a domestic setting.
Mrs Lovewell laments a miswritten invitation to her mother after a spelling slip turns convenience into risk. George admits you wrote to her, but spelling error changes meaning and causes domestic confusion. The fragment ends with a political jab about tangled foreign affairs and Columbus discovery.
Children from eight grades perform Dickens classic A Christmas Carol on December 22 at 8 30 pm in the West Chester High School gym under directors Calkins Bruty Arnold Davis and Bowie. Cast includes Scrooge Gordon Pearson Bob Cratchit Merle Sherman and many others with a chorus and street crowd scenes.
Riverside on December 18 reports the Christmas pageant What Child Is This by Riverside public school pupils postponed from Sunday to Monday evening December 20. The Passion Play lecture at the Methodist church for December 20 is canceled due to illness of Professor J K Hartzler of Hartford Theological Seminary.
The text describes a motorist’s crash on a slick highway with the vehicle overturning and a village constable demanding the offender’s name and address. It reads like a local column note on prudence and inquiry amid odd phrases and dated style.
Babson argues that lowering world trade barriers is essential to sustain the American standard of living. He contends foreign trade drives prosperity and that tariffs and quotas shrink global output, raising costs and reducing wages. He cites cotton, wheat, and automotive sectors, warns of price drops, and urges mutual tariff reductions to spur universal production and growth.
West Chester residents report visits from relatives including Frank Yoke and Rev. Theodore Bauer who heads to San Diego then a navy chaplain role. Ames students David Munro and Dean Niffenegger expected home for holidays. Christmas programs, a library reading room, and fundraising bazaar at the M E Church highlight community activity amid a fire destroying the Frank Pugh home.
Richland society notes report visitor Ralph C Olive son of D C Olive of Pasadena Calif on Gold State Limited route stopping in Richland to visit D C Olive and Mrs May Lemley. L P Hinson visiting daughter and family in Kewanee Ill. Loree Roach Marie Snider and Majel Hedge weekend in Des Moines. Bonita Jeanne born to Ro Wallace and Dee on the 13th. James Harris and family travel to Fairfield to stay with daughter Nat Birt. Charles F Wiegins plans move to Lola Kans.
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