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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1938
Page
4
A fragmentary reflection on how cars shape behavior and society. The speaker laments highway traffic deaths but asserts that automobiles improve education charity progress and amiability among people. The passage emphasizes attitudes over specific events.
A poet named Throckbugle Giption cried I want to die and died, ending the tale with the line. The scene is set in a literary circle where Nye reads from a satirical work titled How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
The note cites Isaiah 1 11 about sacrifices and God’s indifference to ritual blood. It then asserts all human life seeks ego control at individual and national levels, citing a Coast Banner misquoted line attributed to Josh Billings about feeling and fate.
The auto boom has cosmopolitanized society by connecting people across regions. With 28.2 million registrations last year, over 24 million are small jaunting vehicles, placing the United States ahead globally. Travel educates, reduces feuds, and fosters shared experiences from Niagara to Maine woods.
A Household Guest piece mocks a Negro preacher who declares a need to act on the status quo. It notes how politicians invoked laissez faire to justify action, suggesting that the same push has produced a troubling state of affairs for the community.
Two new boys arrive for enrollment. When asked their birth date both say July 3 1927, leading the teacher to note they are twins. The boys correct her, saying they are triplets and their sister could not attend today.
A current magazine outlines Nazi plans for a state church with all citizens obligated to it. Private churches may exist only if they accept the state religion, lose protection and funding, and church property is confiscated. Convent schools will close and religious instruction will serve the state. The move stirs national outrage and leaves Confessional Churches with no worship space. The column also notes a Atchison baby book warning and quips about Stalin and Santa Claus.
An Irishman Patron Pat visits a barber with a pet monkey. The barber plans a joke as the monkey lathers Pat’s face and neck while Pat demands the barber himself shave him. The tale ends with Pat insisting his father shave him.
A San Diego man fishing at Lake Tahoe lands a seven pound northern pike and texts his wife saying it is a beauty. She replies with a sharp retort, noting her own fish and urging him to come home. Hapdabber Dipjack.
A blasting foreman screens a dig site by ordering workers out and back in, scolding that they drag dirt on their shoes more than on shovels. A German shopper, sweating through Christmas rush finds criticism in misdirected shopping, asking for vitamins instead of men's clothing.
The Office Grouch notes that well proportioned girls are the most afraid of mice. A humorous exchange follows about a wreck at sea and a bet on the Lord's Prayer. The column closes with a reflection: stumbling blocks can be stepping stones depending on use.
Health notes from Washington County report two deaths and two intestinal diarrhea cases due to typhoid fever in Monroe county. Investigation found patients drank well water but shared a single dairy milk source. Emphasizes safe milk production, handling, pasteurization, and ongoing cattle and staff supervision.
The bailer shell grows large enough to hold a gallon of water and is valued by boatmen for bailers and freshwater storage. Aborigines use these shells as saucepans buckets canoe bailers and for safe deposits. Its flesh is eaten and the shell yields the most flesh per area on the reef.
Shinto followers address many kami including nature spirits and ancestors. The sun goddess is central and legends say emperors, the mikado, descend from her. The faith blends worship and reverence without formal monotheism.
Dr and Mrs John L Bremer of Boston received a threatening call claiming their daughter Barbara a debutante was marked for abduction. Police arranged a 24 hour guard and Dr Bremer is part of Harvard Medical School faculty.
Paris dispatch notes near one million red army troops and a similar Japanese force on the continent. It cites border clashes across Manchuria and Mongolia, Japanese Kwantung army independence, and Stalin’s plan to wait until China is finished and the Second Trans Siberian line nears completion for a potential wider war.
Stringtown reports a harvest ice thickness of about sixteen inches from Crooked Creek. Mrs. J. J. Rich notes two men finished collecting the ice on Thursday for Emer Freyenbere. Local activity fills a quiet winter week with family visits and neighbors helping and socializing.
A quirky note explains cucumbers as deep sea creatures with leathery skin and sharp points in some regions, challenging the common view of cucumbers as vegetables. This description reframes the term as a marine animal rather than a garden produce reference.
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