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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1938
Page
8
In Rubio on Wednesday W. Schmitter and KE Morgan sent two car loads of cattle to Chicago. Arthur and Lester Long have involvement in the report, with details continuing in the next item.
GEHORGE L MCDANIEL DRUGGIST promotes a soap sale with a weather note stating fair tonight and continued cold conditions, and a hog price reference at 8.75.
The excerpt notes students transferring to Richland High for the second semester from Brighton due to an all gravel road route. It mentions Charley Derby’s condition, funeral attendance for F. W. Dawson in Richland, and visits from Dwight Moody and Henry Derby to Washington. It also covers the Morgan family attending Sigourney tournament games, Charles Martin’s illness improving, and local children missing school due to cold, wind, and snow.
Odell Oregon resident Eugene Buckley received a bronze medal. Alex N Wiggs of Selma North Carolina saved Lumis C Coats from an electric shock. Coats died nine days later. Clif ford H Lay of Iowa New York perished trying to save William G Steinfield at a Well in West Bloomfield New York.
A historical note identifies the first fire insurance as being purchased by an English company in the late seventeenth century. This marks the emergence of organized risk protection for property against fire.
Jack Everette and his orchestra will provide music for the DeMolay dance tomorrow evening at the Rendezvous. The snappy eleven piece band is well known in Washington and has performed here several times. Dad Boy Means assures dancers the ballroom is well heated and comfortable.
Dorothy L. Larson of Iowa City received Carnegie hero fund bronze for saving two youths from drowning and attempting to save a third when a rowboat overturned on Lake Hanska, Minnesota, July 5, 1936. The event also recalls posthumous honors for rescuers in Oregon and other states.
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