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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1939
Page
4
The snippet notes Donna Mae Clinite and a family context with relatives including four grandparents and great grandparents. The text hints at a large extended family and ongoing ambitions, though details are fragmented.
The American League defeated the National League 3 to 1 in the midsummer classic. Tommy Bridges earned the win over Bill Lee as the Americaners racked up six hits to the Nationals seven in front of a crowd exceeding 62 000.
In playground games this morning the Indians defeated Davenport Democrat carriers 23 to 56 and the Eastend Alleyrats beat Journal carriers 12 to 4. The Indians lead the league with 4 victories and 2 defeats while Journal and Democrat are tied for second at 3 each. Alleyrats sit last at 2 and 4. The final round of the schedule starts Friday.
The Muscatine entry won the Columbus Junction junior baseball tournament defeating Fort Madison 3 to 2 in the final. Muscatine had earlier beaten Burlington and Fort Madison Way in the semifinals, while Washington fell to the Junction.
Ruth Gideon reports a busy Bethel week with visits among neighbors. Multiple residents spent Sunday and Monday with friends at Gideon, Horak, and Williams homes while others joined a picnic hosted by Bethel C E s in Iowa City and Keswick. South Prairie school prepares a fresh interior paint job.
A Des Moines bus driver was injured when a crate of chickens toppled from a passing truck and shattered a bus window in Knoxville. The incident occurred on the highway as the bus traveled past the truck, causing cuts to the driver.
Mrs. F Fields of Washington state and her visiting daughter returned home Saturday. Mame T Brock of Iowa City plans to stay in Denver for months. Various families from Iowa City Davenport Muscatine Rock Island and Riverside are noted visiting relatives or hosting guests this week including the Miles Beaman and Little households.
President Roosevelt designates Paul V. McNutt retired Philippines high commissioner as administrator of the major welfare agency group. The role oversees social security public health NYA CCC education and employment services as part of the administration’s reform effort.
The historic Lake Parima shown on British maps for over two centuries is challenged as real as researchers note it does not exist. At the Duane Hazen home near Ainsworth on Sunday, Mrs. Della Miller and her daughter visited the Schiebels in Titus neighborhood. Mildred Pyle of Newton is visiting her sister Mrs. V. Hildabrand for vacation this week.
Thomas Runyon, already serving a life term in Iowa for the 1937 murder of James Zrostick in Britt, was convicted last week in Minnesota of bank robbery and kidnapping and given another life term. Minnesota towns seek his pardoning or parole. The piece notes his long criminal career and the futility of walls to restrain him.
The opossum, the American animal most closely related to the Tasmanian wolf, links to carnivores in the broader marsupial and mammal line. This nearest relative relationship highlights surprising similarities in evolutionary history across distant regions.
Walter P. Jacobs, 42, former bank president in Adrian Michigan, was arrested on a warrant for making a false entry of ten thousand dollars in the bank ledger. He confessed to federal agents in Detroit that he embezzled one hundred twenty six thousand dollars of the bank's funds.
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