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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1947
Page
4
Cloud Cornick, a Mt Pleasant area resident, stopped by the local airport yesterday afternoon on his way home from attending a hog sale.
Clinton Donald Kern and Glen Murphy GI students receive instruction from the Washington Flying service. Memorial hospital Mt Pleasant reports birth of Cathie to Mr and Mrs Richard I Houseal eight pounds eight ounces on Sunday. Mrs Houseal is Evelyn Miller. Mr and Mrs dra Gastman and Marie Jackson leave for Chicago to purchase merchandise for the TL Rothschild store. Real bargains in electric record players at Sofdens.
John C. Kleopter of Chicago dies in the cab of his oil truck while en route to Lone Tree. In a separate incident a welding shop blast in a medghaieale arts building kills four youths, with Roy Lyster injured and Milton Hendricks dying later in a Hannibal hospital.
Pilotburg residents Mr and Mrs Carl T Anderson will be featured on a Skelly company radio program January 26 for Superior Achievement in Agriculture. The Andersons, praised for farm work, are Iowa State University alumni who moved to their Pilotburg farm and are parents of a daughter and a grandson.
House Democrats argued the Knutson bill would chiefly benefit the wealthy. Citing Internal Revenue Service data they noted a three dependent man earning 2509 annually would drop federal taxes from 450 to 40 under the proposal, which sets a flat 20 percent cut on incomes to 302000.
A 0.25 percent after tax increase is discussed for a taxpayer with three dependents earning $100. The current Internal Revenue Bureau tax would total 61, 87.75, while Knutson’s plan would yield 49,510.20 in after tax income, about a 32.5 percent gain. Democrats favor raising exemptions to target relief to lower brackets rather than flat rate cuts.
Washington reports a Commerce Department forecast shows fats demand this year at about 19.7 billion pounds, 1.6 billion more than available. Soap supply relies on Cepra imports from the Philippines, with little prospect of a significant rise.
A father did not know it was loaded when a shotgun discharged striking the hip of his child. The victim died at a Des Moines hospital shortly after, according to police reports.
Beeswax is used in candle making insulation modeling clay textile art cosmetics and polishes for floors and furniture.
An advertisement touts Thurman and Minor’s Rectal Ointment and Rectal Suppositories as fast relief for piles. It claims a doctor’s method eases pain itch irritation and swelling and urges purchase in Washington at McDaniel’s.
Des Moines police report a 4 year old boy named Robert Cramblitt was killed when a gun his father was cleaning discharged. The weapon had been loaned and later returned by a borrower.
Four high school students died and seven were seriously burned in a blast blamed on an electric welding machine in Monroe City Missouri. Sheriff Tom Spalding said the explosion occurred when the welding device made contact with something unspecified.
Americans aged 8 to 80 voted Quaker Oats tasting best and healthiest in a nationwide independent poll. Quaker Oats received more votes than any other cereal, hot or cold, and is promoted as a whole grain oatmeal rich in protein energy and vitamin B1.
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