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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1976
Page
3
Washington Iowa edition reflects on biblical supplication II Kings 19 19 urging communal prayer for divine aid while noting a lack of proactive human kindness and assistance. The piece contrasts seeking God’s saving grace with offering mercy to others, in a reflective editorial tone.
In a Washington Golf and Country Club incident Bus Westermark finds a wearied Tiger brand golf ball bearing Dr D W Dwyer’s name while looking for his wife’s ball. A second anecdote recalls Leon Hillman with a leg scar and a 1940s silver plate treatment. The column ends with a practical joke about a tomato bragging gardener being tricked by a red basketball tied to a plant.
The item references a 1976 first quarter report noting the American free enterprise system has made the nation well fed clothed and endowed. It contrasts with the Soviet Union asserting more territory and resources yet implying the need for a different system to reach equality with that model.
A satirical piece mocks federal saving bonds slogans and rising costs in a 200th anniversary context. It rails at medical costs, taxes, and infrastructure cuts while joking about scrapping billions of assets and shifting workers to farms, ending with a quip about find a free enterprise country to sell wheat on credit.
A Washington Iowa Inland Daily Press item recalls a Harvard Business School professor tale from the late 1960s go go investment era. Students computed a hypothetical $10 000 at 35 percent annually until age 60 yielding 364 485 000, prompting questions about wealth distribution and practical limits. The piece blends witty maxims on marriage and parenting with the financial quote.
A 1976 L M Boyd column catalogues quirky military trivia about third lieutenants, notes eccentric legal and social beliefs, and recalls a fraudster who exploited a war time coffee shortage. It ends with a quip from Margaret Mead on Polynesian beauty and a Weatherford Texas mailing address.
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