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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1975
Page
4
A July 17 1975 Washington Iowa editorial urges sharing positive news with the community. It quotes Isaiah 52 7 and notes the playful exchange about noon timing reflecting local character. The piece contrasts bearing good tidings with bearing ill tidings and ends with a humorous line about time.
A writer muses on the word oner and its meaning in Scrabble and life. He recalls a game where an extra r turned oner into a lost point, laments dictionary omissions, and offers humorous examples of clever or quirky oners in daily life.
Victorian era items recount a Catholic church dedication in Richmond with priests and students from Milwaukee, while local housing, construction, and rents are discussed. Keota race day promises trotting and running events. accidents involving Buckeye machines are noted. Music by Lizzie Scofield is sold locally. an excursion train to Rock Island with reduced fare is planned, hinting at steamboat talk to Muscatine.
Abigail Van Buren offers readers advice on personal etiquette and social issues. The column discusses a friend with odor and hygiene problems, a waitress constrained by rules about coffee and seating, and a wormy candy gift. It presents practical guidance and invites readers to submit questions.
A fragment collage mixes social musings and trivia. It satirizes harp players and violins, jokes about weather blizzards, Paul Revere expenses, wrestling diets, dinosaur roars, handgun crime stats, ulcers among ad execs, language origins, wrestler romance, and emergency room finger ring removals with brief, disconnected observations.
A narrator recalls a remembered incident from years ago in a college town. Walking late at night, they meet a student who appears somewhat intoxicated and ask the time, triggering uneasy memories of the event.
A Japanese hospital mixed up two newborns four years ago and only recently corrected the error. The hospital administrator apologized to the parents with tears and vowed to make amends “until my bones turn to ashes.”
In a World Bridge Championship note, Kreyns Slavenburg for Holland and Kehela Murray for Canada each reached six spades despite missed diamond material. West led hearts, declarers faced no difficulty, and both tables produced six spades for 980 points, ending in a washout.
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