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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1944
Page
4
A fragment cites Galatians 3 29 emphasizing believers as Christ's heirs and Abraham's seed. The brief religious excerpt references the promise and lineage.
The Washington County Department of Social Welfare explains old age assistance and aid to dependent children, detailing eligibility, budgeting, and monthly payments. It notes 391 receive old age aid, 19 families have dependent children across 66 children, and 420 local families are aided, with services funded by state and federal governments but administered locally.
Davenport comments on beauty of a new tire, Estherville warns bonds rely on holder, Lake Mills notes Forest City golf course loss due to support, Lake Mills reports erosion of local improvements, Marshalltown criticizes Dr Goebbels warning Germans against overconfidence.
Salem readers pass along light local items from By the Way column. Messages recall a parrot hello on a summer day, family visits in town, a 57th anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Shalla, teen education topics, neighbor updates, and a serviceman’s egg memory from Christmas 1943.
Crawfordsville families are invited to a tuberculosis testing program on February 9 at 9 30 A M in the Crawfordsville school. The event is sponsored by the County Tuberculosis Association with the Health Unit County Medical Society and Women's Home Project group. Health chairmen Mrs Merle Twinam and Mrs Clarence Fulton will assist. Tests are funded by seal sales and include high school students February tests for all county students plus kindergarten and first grade children and parents. A positive test does not confirm active tuberculosis. X ray does. Positive cases should follow up with X ray. Guests of Kings include Mr and Mrs J T King with relatives Cloyce Messenger Rosemary Messenger and Dwight Messenger. Grace Conrad, a King relative, dined with them.
A dissolution sale eight miles northwest of Columbus Junction saw a team of work horses aged six and seven years old, 3200 pounds, fetch 269 dollars. Milk cows brought 97 to 135 dollars, heifers 60 to 82, sheep 11 to 12, brood sows 52, summer pigs 6 to 12. Five tons clover hay sold 40 cents a bale and seven tons timothy hay 42 cents.
Auctioneers Paul Klotz and H M Duncan of Columbus Junction conducted a sale listing prices for Timothy hay bales and loose hay, corn, oats, and various farming implements. Items included corn at 95 and 938 cents per bushel ceiling, oats 82 cents, and multiple machines such as a 42 foot elevator, eight foot binder, manure spreader, and wagons with prices ranging from 20 to 422 dollars.
The Better Vision institute reports that 45 men rejected for color blindness who received high vitamin diets and intensive color discrimination training showed 35 passing eye tests on re examination and entering military service. After six months those 35 retained improved color perception.
About sixty thousand Mexicans Jamaicans and Bahamans entered the United States this year to work on farms. Thousands of Jamaicans and Bahamans are employed in New York state fields and orchards.
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