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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1935
Page
4
A concise devotional notes to daily work and temperance with quotes from Proverbs 23 4 5 and from Robert Louis Stevenson and James A Garfield urging diligence cheerfulness and stable policy for business and law makers.
A prominent eastern attorney Howard Carter Dickinson nephew of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, traveling to Detroit on important legal business, fell prey to criminals. He allegedly joined a night life crowd, was murdered for a small amount of money, leaving his family to bear social embarrassment.
Criminologist Captain Donald Wilkie argues the law of averages keeps criminals unpunished with estimates 6 to 1 for arrest, 12 to 1 for prison, 124 to 1 for execution. He blames politicians, drugs, lawyers, red tape, alibis and calls for stronger federal and state police and harsher political accountability.
In this wartime style column C F Rugaber argues taxes are the consumer’s burden, hidden in prices, and that government waste and political machines sap business. He contends business must bear the tax cost to recover prosperity, not the workers. Taxes are added by producers and passed to buyers.
A monthly meeting of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Washington went awry as guests fled to escape, a cake of ice rolled down cellar stairs and struck a dog in the dark corner. A poem and jokes closed the scene with lighthearted reflections.
A fragment heavy page combines a lodge meeting notice for Washington Lodge No. 26 with a moral verse and a humorous tale about Alf from the Knickerbocker. It also lists railroad schedules, agents, and departures for Washington and surrounding lines, with notes on stopping points and service days.
The passage contemplates the fate of two girls and a young man who conspired in a murder. It foresees imprisonment as the likely outcome, noting their youth, beauty, and intelligence, and laments how freedom and opportunity are severed, leaving them imprisoned and forgotten.
A raucous tale ends with a gun, a fall into water, and a man choking on pills. The narrator notes the danger of betraying friends and the need for silence to survive.
Little Mary made her debut as an entertainer at a recital and wowed the audience. An encore was demanded but she refused saying she played it right the first time.
Gracehill July 3 report notes Mr Cherwinker shot an owl perched on his barn to stop its visits after it had been preying on neighboring poultry. The owl measured 4 ft 6 in from tip to tip of its wings. Local residents express relief at ending the nuisance.
Richmond July 3 The daily vacation Bible School at the M E church held closing exercises with a basket dinner. Rev D J Evans and Rev T A Caldwell spoke on the program and value of the school. Kalona leaders C E Hershberger I N Arnold assisted. Twenty five pupils enrolled amid rainy week challenges. Lydia Hershberger supervised with Ruth Hendricks as assistant. Various local visits noted.
Miss Margaret Morgan of Thayer Iowa visits summer with her parents Mr and Mrs C E Morgan. Keith Hanan spent the week with family.
The June Franklin Center Farm Bureau meeting at A B Dill home featured a Quaker speaker from Pennsylvania on world peace. Rosella Hoyle reported from the Ames 4-H convention while Lois Hoyle read. Several local families and 4-H members were noted with social visits and training certificates earned by Bernadine Long and Rogalie Combs.
In a stormy dawn at the Central Criminal Court Betty Potter attends the murder trial of Lawrence Vane, accused of killing Isobel Vane. State’s Attorney Turnbull presents witnesses linking motive and opportunity while defense counters with plots to ruin him. Roger Thornley testifies as a construction engineer connected to the case.
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