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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1931
Page
5
Gloria Tanner wins a car in a village raffle and conceives a plan to run Odds and Ends a service handling household errands. She builds a list of eight clients, hires help, and plans to partner with Arthur Alridge for a lasting family business.
A large bank’s survey of London, Birmingham and vicinity finds city women as thriftists the trendsetters. Reasons include thrift for thrift’s sake, old age provision, vacation funds, or marriage. City savers tally 73 percent with accounts versus 56 percent rural. men 65 percent city and 67 percent country.
A boy at school mentions a girl in his room. The mother asks if she is still in his grade. The boy explains she “passed up prohibition” in a joking misread.
The name Bowling Green likely comes from Moore's Bowling Alley located on the open green, linking the city's origin to a local landmark and early recreation.
An article highlights the lizard known as go-samp in Calcutta reptile house displaying extraordinary jaw strength. The 100 pound reptile bit and held a 12‑foot python by the neck until it released, illustrating a power rivaling warm blooded beasts. A separate anecdote recalls a turtle bite incident from a 1800 pound specimen.
German historian Carl Ludwig Antz proposes that the Song of the Nibelungs uses ancient fairy tale motifs as a framework to describe long standing metallurgical processes. He links Megfried and Sieg fried to mining themes around Wortis and suggests Brunhilde represents tin while Siegfried conquers her for copper, producing bronze.
Crawford Montgomery area broadcasts visitors and family gatherings. Couples from Crawfordsville and nearby towns socialize at homes in Mt. Pleasant West Chester and Essex Iowa with multiple relatives noted in Ilinois and Indiana community.
Mrs Charley Corpman and others visited Mrs Carl Corpman while husbands attended a meeting. The Wellston Social club hosted a children's event at Sunset Park despite rain. Farmers report oats being cut hay made and wheat harvest underway with several neighbors sharing help.
Burlington Vermont report says a Vermont Commission committee recommends the state assume ownership of the principal mountains within its borders. The proposal aims to preserve public access and natural resources across the range.
Boston news report states Carl Salin and Mike Yasuck faced mutual assault charges and were offered to have their cases filed if they recited the Lord's Prayer three times in each other's presence before Municipal Judge Michael J. Murray.
Lovina Walsh recounts Erasmus and Dean Colet visiting St Nicholas almshouse in England. A holy relic from St Thomas of Canterbury was requested and kissed. Colet argued, Erasmus calmly donated a generous sum to the alms box, giving the box its name.
A well known local hypochondriac fears losing his hearing though his doctor says otherwise. He announced plans to buy an earphone to test it and surprised colleagues by whispering to him or others the next day. He now tells his doctor the idea was misguided.
The long eared owl is a medium sized bird with long ear tufts. It inhabits temperate North America and breeds from Virginia to southern California and northern Texas. In winter it spreads across much of its range. Nests are in evergreen groves ten to twenty feet high and may be built in dense growths. Its diet includes meadow mice insects and other small animals.
William Dean Howells lauds Mark Twain as uniquely piercing life and breadth of vision. He compares Twain to Emerson Longfellow Lowell Holmes and other writers, calling him sole among literary men and “the Lincoln of our literature.”
The phrase on the level is tied to Freemasonry with the level emblematic in the craft. The expression is linked to Masonic tradition and its use in lodge guidance and ritual phrasing.
Advertises Chesterfield cigarettes as top quality mild tobacco with pure paper and even burn. Claims the product delivers cool, comfortable smoking and satisfying experience.
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