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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1938
Page
8
Acrobatics evolved from rope dancing to balance tumbling and trapeze. Iconic performer Blondon crossed Niagara Falls on a tight rope, later repeating the feat carrying a man on his shoulders and rolling another in a wheelbarrow.
In a heated exchange amid US government Indian treaty talks on Ohio lands, a chief declares money worthless to them. He says settlers north of the Ohio River are poor and proposes dividing the money among settlers to repay land occupancy, or to cover the army costs used to displace them.
Sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Auditor until 1 30 PM on August 2 1938 for small sized nut coal from Franklin Saline or Perry Counties Illinois and for Iowa coal to be furnished to the County Home on track Courthouse Jail County Poor and County Yards delivered for the 1938 39 season. Include carload analysis. The Board of Supervisors reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids. ETHEL GREC IAN County Auditor
Jesse Van Winkle a 35 year old Macomb Illinois man died in University hospital after a fall from a load of hay on a Black Hay county farm near Waterloo Iowa. He was swept to the ground when his head struck a telephone wire and his neck was fractured.
Fitzhugh Talman cites eighteenth and nineteenth century belief that lightning appeared as zigzag lines. Nasmyth doubted lightning in 1856, after which photography showed lightning is sinuous, meandering like a river with multiple branches.
In the early nineteenth century Humphrey Repton urged against visible man made changes to scenery. The ha ha wall was introduced to keep livestock within bounds while preserving natural views.
Notices advertise two school district meetings in 1938. Washington Independent School District will discuss expenditures and taxes for the 1937 assessed value with a per thousand levy of 31.20, while West Chester Consolidated School will hold August 1 to review a 18.32 per thousand tax rate.
Albert Mackey of Detroit owned a 28 percent inch three pound frog named Frenchy. He outfitted it to troll for bass near Grass Lake Michigan, then a muskellunge incident led to the frog's fate. The tale ends with Mackey's lament over persimmons and the loss of his pet frog.
Inscriptions prompt scholars to link King Menes with King Minos the builder of Knossos in Crete, suggesting the first Egyptian ruler authored a wider ancient maritime myth.
Democracy is a government where the people influence public affairs under constitutional forms. The term comes from Greek demos meaning people and kratein meaning to rule.
Marcus Bach of the University of Iowa dramatic arts department will attend the premier of Calvario at Iowa Theater marking his second witnessed opening in a week. A federal theater group in Chicago staged his earlier work Mr Jim at the Selwyn Theatre.
Columbus on his first voyage reaches the Bahamas and claims the New World for Spain. England builds three forts at Nassau named Charlotte Montagu and Fincastle to guard the settlement as Spain and England wage centuries of rivalry and pirates raid the area including a tower called Blackbeard's tower erected by pirates.
The article asserts Johann Sebastian Bach as the greatest counterpoint master in musical history. It notes he ignored the era’s habit of limiting himself to few keys and adjusted keyboard tunings to render instruments nearly perfect for all keys.
Glendale police hold 49 year old vaudeville hypnotist Robert A. Gilbert on suspicion of murder in the death of 23 year old Mrs Marie Colombos. Gilbert denies hypnotizing her but says he was in the room when she collapsed after lifting a day bed. He had recently helped in a so called post hypnosis childbirth involving Ethel Gaynor.
A feature comparison describes the circus as a portable newspaper, with acts like horses and elephants replacing news columns. The piece likens weather reports and box scores to the menagerie and sideshows while noting clown antics for laughs and broad appeal across ages.
Historic note recalls Joe Miller died 1738 and widow's legacy, publisher Read hires Moffley to compile jests, Elijah Jenkins issues Joe Miller’s Jests in London, making the name a synonym for joke while Miller himself never laughed at or understood jokes. The column then touches geysers, hot springs, and Hazlitt on envy.
Historical records describe Chinese oil drilling using crude gear and a spring pole. Workers stood on a board attached to a pole to force the bit deeper into the borehole.
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