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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1945
Page
3
The National Editorial urges patient effort to grow fruit and nurture growth. It quotes biblical imagery from Song of Songs about ripening figs and blossoming vines, emphasizing planning, cultivation, and vigilance.
A local writer laments postwar homefront loneliness as soldiers scatter worldwide. He cites Iwo Jima losses, recalls names and places, and urges readers to support bonds and labor. The piece contrasts planned economy with real wartime costs and notes other editorials on daylight saving and dogs in towns.
A light-hearted collection shows Danny’s first day of school with a witty exchange about the teacher’s smarts. A colored soldier answers a dependents question with a humorous caveat about his wife. Detroit News notes complain about restaurant policies on hats coats and butter requests.
A polite floor walker helps a perturbed young man who cannot recall whether to buy a camisole or a casserole. The man wonders aloud how to proceed, and the clerk proposes clarifying the chicken type to guide the decision.
A collage of wry observations on gender roles, weather, health, and social manners. The fragment references war era bills, telephone etiquette, kissing risks, and a satirical take on politics, marriage, and fashion, ending with a quip about a cigarette famine.
A child named Sammy asks his mother to join a game where they pretend to be elephants at two hundred. The mother responds unsurely, and Sammy suggests the mother be the elephant feeder who gives candy and peanuts.
The Selznick International picture To Be Seeing You opens Sunday at the State Theatre. Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotten star as bewildered lovers, with Shirley Temple in a grown up role and Spring Byington as Shirley’s mother. The cast forms a convincing group led by Tom Tully in key family parts.
John Dillinger the gangster forms the subject of Monogram film Dillinger at Fox Theatre featuring Lawrence Tierney as the criminal. The plot centers on his war with lawmen and the fatal lure of women ending in the capture by "the lady in red" portrayed by Anne Jeffreys. The cast also includes Edwurd Lowe Eduardo Ciannelli Marc Lawrence and Elisha Cook Jr.
Reading fragments show a series of Sunday gatherings as neighbors and relatives visit each other. Names include Charlie Church ill, Ted Giv ans, Lyle Wilson, Fred Kephart, Lyie Babcock, Wm. Longer, Osicks, Alvin Shebecks, Joan, Spencer Reed, Ralph Waggoner, and Mrs. Joan Moore. One line notes a funeral trip to Mr. Pleasant for an aunt.
Harold Yeoman, 22, wounded in action on Mindanao in the Philippines on June 3, died the same day. An army infantryman with numerous campaigns in the southwest Pacific, his unit earned the presidential unit citation. Former Fairfield taxi driver, he served since Sept 19, 1942, never returning home. Survived by three sisters.
The notice lists Mrs Vera Gregory of Ottumwa Mrs Velma Cline of Fairfield Mrs Viva Wilson of Mississippi plus brothers Verne Yeoman of Fairfield Pfe Homer Yeoman in Germany and S8 Set Frank Yeoman in China. Parents deceased mother 1985 father burned 1944 one brother died 1928 Harold recalled from Washington as a child.
Ruth Applegate leaves Davenport on vacation to enter Chicago Memorial Hospital for three months of nurses training. After completing the program she will return to her Davenport hospital duties.
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