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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1937
Page
4
A devotional note cites Psalm 69 6 urging God to shield waiters and seekers for the speaker s sake. It then meditates on the Golden Age of physical and scientific progress with industry yielding a surge of new products and the public using tenfold more metals minerals woods fibers and oils than in Elizabethan England.
Jimmy Campbell, a part time Journal helper for a couple of years, heads to Bakersfield California to grow up with the country. He worked mornings evenings and Saturdays while finishing high school and earned the Journal staff good wishes for his future endeavors.
The Northwestern Bell house organ from Omaha features Jim Bowling as he reaches 35 years with Bell Telephone Co. He is shown as a matured tester and toll tester based in Waterloo Iowa after growing up in the local area. Washington friends extend congratulations.
The piece warns that a general automobile industry strike would ripple through the economy, reducing demand for rubber, steel, glass, copper and other materials and impacting railroads and agricultural inputs. It cites estimates from United Press and Nation’s Business on wide collateral effects and questions the fate of a looming downturn in 1957.
A Burlington high school basketball game Tuesday night drew mixed reactions to the team’s peculiar uniforms. One observer admitted not recognizing any players on the street, citing the outfits as the reason.
James Casey Jr. clutches a German ten cent piece pridefully as a prankster swaps it for a record, while Ralph Livingston's farm faces a livestock jam on slick ground. A reader’s note describes cows trapped by glare ice and a coal ash path that cannot hold their weight.
A Washington father notes Mrs Sarah Delano Roosevelt watching her son’s second inauguration amid twenty six minute delay caused by rain and bad roads. A senator reportedly wore a hat radio during the address. A Journal fare member contemplates a Detroit sit-down strike leadership role.
A judge charges a defendant noted as a green grocer who admits guilt after an outburst against government agents. He explains losing his temper during inspections of scales butter meat and kerosene and mentions answering three federal questionnaires before stopping a man attempting a cheese moving picture.
Hollywood reader Bill Stewart praises the By Ways jokes and stories edition for 1937. He notes dorm mates want copies as Christmas gifts and hints at remaining stock before sellout.
In Washington County Iowa the case Hesseltine versus Hallhhouse Hillhouse Stafford Benson and many others seeks to quiet title to SE quadrant of NE quadrant and N half of SE quadrant in section 2 township 74 north range 7 west. The petition claims plaintiff owns fee simple and adverse claims by defendants and unknown claimants are baseless. Respondents must appear by noon of the second day of the March 1937 term or default will be entered. Attorneys Morrison and Morrison.
Mr and Mrs Joe Krots and family spent Sunday at the Ben Harrison home. Mr and Mrs Everette Coon and family visited the Murray Conger home in Washington Tuesday afternoon. Mr and Mrs John Krotz and Mrs Anna Krotz spent Sunday evening at the Joe Krotz home, Mr and Mrs Lewis Coon and Eula Mae spent Monday at the Washington county hospital.
Mrs Willie Lewis underwent appendicitis surgery on Monday for a ruptured appendix with an abscess. Mr Lewis is recovering well. Mr and Mrs Wim Murphy and W R Murphy visited Ernest Saladays in Wahington on Sunday. Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for kindness shown during bereavement and thanks to singers pallbearers and donors. Mr and Mrs Glenn Hesser and family are mentioned with Zilpha and Dale Hesser.
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