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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1946
Page
5
A 1946 Iowa column criticizes postwar price controls and wage policies, argues inflation requires consumer restraint, and highlights crop prosperity and sunlit summers. It contrasts university politics with earlier New Deal figures, and ends by recalling wartime outcomes and Nazi atrocities.
The Nevada, launched 1914 and commissioned 1916, survived Pearl Harbor and WWII combat from Attu to Normandy. It endured a Bikini Atoll atomic test as the target ship, damaged above the waterline yet refused to sink, earning universal wartime honors and a storied legend.
Round Grove notes report the Skubal brothers purchase a new hay chopper and blower, claimed as the first of its kind in the neighborhood. Local farmers, including Lee Nicholson, share activity hauling hogs and lambs to Cedar Rapids while oats harvest moves along in ideal weather.
William Alpheus Loughridge died June 17 at Stafford Kansas after a four year confinement. Born March 27 1861 on the Loughridge farm near Washington Iowa he was a son of Alexander and Mrs Loughridge and part of a twelve child family. Surviving are two sisters and many nieces and nephews including Mrs Jenness Abbey Alder Sea Cliff California Mrs Blanche Abbey Hinkle San Francisco and Mrs Kathel Abbey Moore Sweet Home Oregon. A niece Kin Regan Washourn died May 30 in Msentine Iowa. His widowhood is noted as he never married.
In East Africa a group anoints themselves with lion fat to gain courage and impress the animals, according to local beliefs. The ritual highlights cultural practices tied to bravery and wildlife perception.
The article notes the region now Yellowstone National Park was discovered by John Coulter in 1807 and later designated as a national park, about 65 years afterward.
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