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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1936
Page
11
A Chinatown sage warns that enemies may suffer due to their own actions and predicts burdensome taxation to support them, framing future neighbors as deservedly difficult. The remark blends social scorn with a forecast of communal responsibility and expense.
The summerhouse where Mozart completed the Magic Flute stands on the Kapuzinerberg one of Salzburg’s two hills within the city limits. The site is noted as a historic location tied to the composer’s work in Austria.
Lady Smith-Dorrien notes English dislike of spoiled royal children with anecdotes about Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose. She cites manners lessons from Queen Mary, education differences for princesses, and the contrast with royal princes at schools.
Wyman community club held its annual Christmas supper and party on December 17 in the school gymnasium with 115 attendees. A Major Bowes style amateur program followed, featuring acts by Powder Walski, a pantomime, a skit The Goose Feather Bed, dances by Miss Dunbar, and songs Red Wing and Red Wine with guitar, as the Wayne’s Ozark Mountaineers provided musical interludes.
The event featured Madam Moskowski in a dramatic aria style number, a quartet cracking jokes and singing, a trombone solo by Kenneth Rees with Mrs. Rees at the piano, and a Sleigh Ride piano duet by Carroll, Miriam, and Mildred Davis. Mrs. Bogle, Mrs. T. H. Huston, and Mrs. Myrtle Davis organized the program and gift exchange, deeming it one of the club’s best Christmas gatherings.
Willis A. Glassgow the Page county attorney and former University of Iowa star says the drive to remove gambling and slot machines is successful by today and warns machines must stay out in the future.
Nature Magazine notes the wolf spider Lycosa scutulata bears her young on her back until they are ready to fend for themselves. The brood can number up to about 150 spiderlings.
Spiders travel through the air without wings by sitting on a post or branch and spinning silk. If the wind is strong, they drift away on a current of air buoyed by the silk mass.
Lake Tana in Africa is one eighth the size of Lake It and serves as the source of the Blue Nile. It joins the White Nile at Khartoum in Sudan, supplying irrigation water and rich silt for agriculture across the Anglo Egyptian Sudan and Egypt.
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