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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1937
Page
8
Warner Bros musical comedy Gold Diggers of 1937 arrives at the State theater for Sunday and Monday showings. The film follows the acclaimed series with comedy songs and large dance choruses, continuing the Gold Diggers tradition.
Critics unite against President Roosevelt on a government reform plan aimed at reducing departmental overlap and boosting efficiency. A three member committee led by Louis Brownlow with Luther Gulick and Dr Charles Merriam drafted the proposal, which includes creating two new cabinet posts.
The county home conducted its annual inventory listing 5114 quarts of canned fruit valued at 1022.80 dollars 120 bushels of apples 150 bushels of potatoes 1500 pounds of cabbage for a total estimated value of 15368.79 dollars.
Price 25 cents. George L. McDaniel Drugist offers cold remedy. Hog price tops ten dollars and forty cents. Weather forecast calls for snow tonight and Sunday with warmer trend ahead.
Honorary Colonel and newlyweds Dick Powell and Joan Blondell lead a crowd with Victor Moore Lee Dixon and a host of dancers including Glenda Farrell Rosalind Perkins Don Ald Meek Irene Ware and 200 trained by Bucky Berkeley. Previews claim the film is funnier and more tuneful than previous installments with unusually large and lavish sets.
Brightons January news notes preparatory home declamatory contests to pick four finalists in each division for the final on February 3. Twelve humorous, six oratorical, eight dramatic contestants. Also local society updates and travel notes including Walter Heyde visiting from Winfield and several residents headed to California for extended stays.
The Iowa conservation commission selects Lake of Three Fives as the official name for the state lake and park under construction in Redford. The designation highlights a distinctive local label for the new recreational site and its development.
Funeral services were held in Ainsworth at the Methodist church for George Townsend, a World War veteran, who died at the Des Moines Veterans Hospital. Rev. E. J. Shook led the service with a male quartet and several named participants serving as pallbearers.
The account describes three tribes forming a protective alliance with a nearby camping ground by a lake site. Three fires were kept burning to signal unity and warn off invaders, with the fires extinguished if any tribe weakened or separated.
The earliest spring pavilion in the United States was built around 1818 over a renowned spring at White Sulphur Springs in what is now West Virginia.
A complete ground floor set for Sing Me a Love Song is reproduced for the Cosmopolitan production to be released by First National at the Fox theater. The elaborate set includes cos metrics haberdashery musical and other departments with a tent in the sports goods area. James Melton notes the prop men manage thousands of items and warns mislaid articles can halt filming.
Reading notes show the Sahara at 110 feet below sea level, Caspian Sea at 86 feet, and the Dead Sea at 1 290 feet below sea level.
Liggett and Myers tobacco company announces Alexander Woolcott, critic from Tow Crier, as the featured artist on a Columbia Network program. The rebroadcast airs at 10:30 PM Mountain Time after the 6:30 PM Central slot.
Sioux City law partners Linus B. Fore ling and the former Mrs Edith Cover wed on their honeymoon. Fore ling, a former state representative, has practiced law 20 years while Mrs Cover studied law in his office and passed the bar in 1927.
A young woman decides to fund her future by paying herself a fixed monthly amount. She saves a portion of all she earns through Investors Syndicate. LeRoy Pratt in Washington, Iowa explains the plan as a path to assured happiness.
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