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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1947
Page
5
A collection of editorial notes discusses debt, strikes, and term limits, praising Boy Scouts and Rotary founder Paul Harris. It notes Congress debates a two term limit, cites postwar strike costs, and reflects on national expectations, taxes, and public welfare programs. Also mentions radio talk of Moscow talks and U.S. distribution systems.
Charlotte Barli humorously dissects car culture and self advise in a satirical guest column. The narrator jokes about cars causing headaches and roadside woes while weaving in playful exchanges and a stray joke about a man arguing with himself.
A terse exchange has a man hinting at dating a nurse to provoke jealousy. The woman dismisses him lightly and quips about his mother arranging future outings, revealing a tense social moment.
A childlike quiz recalls the November 11 1918 Armistice marking end of World War I with two minutes of peace each year cited. The column then notes croquet’s comeback in California and jokes about polo, meat shortages and odd career pivots in a quirky, era tone.
Assistant Navy Secretary W John Kenney tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that government liability for pending portal to portal payments on cost plus contracts could reach about 720 million dollars.
Young America, January 28 report notes the Journal’s absence of the Rocking Chair column. Guests visit neighbors and families include the Hunston and Pringle households. Congratulations are extended for the birth of Edward Grant Humston.
Marsh Oxley leaves Benteco Junction to run the Fairfield store. Mrs Oxley moves to Fairfield in about two weeks. Lester Voss becomes manager of the local Benteco. Mr and Mrs Marion Wall relocate to Rock Island for Mr Wall’s new job. A W Jones reelected elder and I T Alfred deacon at Grace Evangelical church meeting. Mrs Fay Greene visits daughter in Loveland Colorado. Today’s club program led by R O Lynn. next meeting planned for Feb 5 with Mrs Sheldon Hawkins.
Berkeley January twenty nine. University of California anthropologist says a tribe of stone age men who roamed the Hills of Palestine about 20 000 years ago could not be distinguished from modern man if clothed in modern attire. The finding suggests continuity in human form and appearance.
Dr Theodore D McGown describes Natufian skeletons as medium height slender wiry white men. He suggests the Natufians may represent a transitional culture between Ice Age hunter societies and early agriculture with tools like flint sickle blades and crude mortars indicating they were teasers possibly farming wild grain.
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