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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1939
Page
4
A 1938 sermon on Titus 2 4 urging young women to be sober and loving toward husbands and children. It cautions against reliance on others for livelihood and warns that labor accompanies earning one s living, referencing David Sarnoff as a contextual marker.
Reprinted notes Henry Ford started Ford Motor Co with 2800 dollars. The piece traces his search for backing from bankers, friends, politicians, and capitalists amid fears of inflation, government bonds, and budget deficits before turning to Wall Street for support.
A historic push unfolds as SEC scrutiny, NLRB actions, and congressional debate test early automotive dreams. Ford quits Wall Street, faces labor strikes, and lobbies Washington while a presidential commission studies carmenial impacts over a three year timeline.
A fragmented poem humorously laments doctors dentists and pleasures paid for with tight budgets. It contrasts nightly pains and late bills with the urge for beer and small comforts, then shifts to a satirical tally of political campaign sacrifices and social gambits.
Dr. Walter K. Spahr argues Washington politics overshadow urgent economic fixes. He says New Deal aims, deficit spending, and currency policy distract from unemployment repair and fiscal soundness, with staged hearings and selective testimony shaping public opinion.
For over 150 years Bethel and B¢tter Presbyterian churches celebrate liberty with the theme Liberty or Freedom. Services on July 9 include the Lord's Supper during worship. Bethel offers 10:00 a.m. family church and 11:00 a.m. morning worship while Cotter holds 10:00 a.m. Sunday school and 7:45 p.m. evening worship.
Louis J Kehoe criticizes President Roosevelt for proposing another 3.5 billion government spending program. He argues the plan aims to secure a third term and warns it would again burden taxpayers and destabilize the economy. Kehoe urges Congress to thwart what he calls a pre election spending spree. Washington Iowa
For centuries Chinese women used traditional shampoos to achieve glossiness in their hair. The recipes drew on crushed mulberry leaves rose and jasmine oils and pine tree shavings or pao hua tzu for resinous content and balsamic aroma.
The sermon by Rev. M. A. Robeson, pastor, featured themes about ivory and nature. A guest speaker last Sunday addressed the congregation during a church service discussion.
A letter from Lloyd McCall, written May 31 1939 from La Paz Bolivia describes high altitude life 12000 feet up. He recounts Antofagasta Bolivia and Chilean rail travel, nitrate works, Bolivian markets, indigenous life and customs, Lake Poopo Tahuanaca Cuzco plan, and the ongoing political unrest affecting travel amid details of geology and climate.
Hal Roach presents Captain Fury a frontier drama set in Australia starring Brian Korne Victor McLaglen and June Lang Fury an Irish political prisoner becomes an Australian Robin Hood as he confronts land baron Arnold Trist The tale blends action with romance and features Lang as the leading lady at the State Theatre Sunday and Monday.
The Ritz Brothers star in The Gorilla a mad cap mystery based on Ralph Spence’s stage play. Harrigan Mulligan and Garrity pursue a sinister menace called The Gorilla after a chilling midnight threat to Lionel Atwill.
Miss Verena OConner of Shenandoah and Miss Mildred OConner of Iowa City spent the week at the home of their parents Mr and Mrs William OConner in Riverside. Mrs Bertha Varnum, recently teaching in Allison, Iowa, visited with her daughter Dorothy and her father Corneline Schneider. Mrs Rose Shebanek visited several days with her sister Mrs Frank Nayadley near Richmond.
The Royal Northwest Mounted Police dispatch 200 men from Vancouver to the inland route during the 1898 Yukon gold rush. They set up barracks at Fort Selkirk, 180 miles from Dawson City amid a fierce storm. A man described with sliding-panel house and Ritz Brothers association is mentioned, while a Model T Ford arrives as a thunderstorm rages.
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