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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1942
Page
4
A short biblical quotation from 1 John 2 16 17 warns that worldly desires pass away while those who follow God’s will endure. The verse contrasts fleshly lust with eternal spiritual commitment.
National business summary notes war production moves from tooling to labor and materials. With labor shortages and rising demand for steel and copper, civilian industry faces tighter supplies and selective rationing as non war activity narrows. Government calls for prudent use of resources and sharper emphasis on efficiency.
The piece notes political insistence on fair farmer income amid wartime distress and the GOP touts strong, liberty grounded leadership. It cites rapid capital growth with 82 freight cars moving the Bell Telephone directory from Jefferson City to Washington, the directory listing 275 000 names and 490 000 copies distributed, and Washington’s 1942 population estimated near 796 000 after a 1930 1940 rise of 36 percent.
A fragment from a late era newspaper features humorous exchanges. It includes a Savannah employment office scene with a quip about not knowing anyone to hire, a schoolroom joke about learning polite phrases, and a First Aid instructor pitfall. The piece also contains light banter about marriage proposals and a playful mispronunciation in a domestic joke.
A veteran cleaner and dyer marks twenty first anniversary of his business on July first. At six feet two inches he stands out in any crowd. Trained in Washington and Des Moines to embalm. He enjoys cooking and is famed for biscuits. He enjoys cabinet work at home. A football fan who never played and swims with strong strokes. Has a son who graduated from the University of Iowa and serves in the air corps.
A defendant replies to a breach of promise suit with a claim of temporary insanity and vows to prove it using letters he says express his love. The exchange hints at an unusual legal strategy centered on mental state and personal correspondence.
A heated exchange unfolds as one speaker demands dismissing a chauffeur who has nearly killed him four times, while another urges giving the driver another chance amid the dispute.
Dialogue snippets reveal a humorous exchange where a speaker asks if one would marry after death and the other replies with a playful conditional. Gootus and Rufus trade lines about a cold and a negotiation, delivering light banter and social wit.
The dialogue sketches a barber and customer banter about baldness and hair loss, a cigarette joke with Miss Jinks, a playful kiss with Miss Shorty, and a couple debating whether to see a ball game or the movies with a lighthearted punchline about the movie choice and a happy ending.
Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas headline the comedy romance They All Kissed the Bride directed by Alexander Hall. Roland Young Billie Burke and Allen Jenkins lead a strong cast as a playful romantic farce arrives at the State Theatre Sunday.
The actress resumes the dancing that sparked her breakout in sensational earlier films alongside her return to comedy romance.
The film Dangerous They Live opens at the Fox theater and follows two ordinary Americans as they confront danger to save their country from Nazi back-stabbers. John Garfield Nancy Coleman and Raymond Massey star with Moroni Olsen Lee Patrick Esther Dale among others in a tightly plotted wartime thriller about a highly organized spy ring.
A covert group tries to route a fleet sailing from this country with cargo for England to rendezvous with a protective convoy. The plan places a submarine flotilla in position to strike once the meeting occurs.
In Melbourne a man greets another as dead and alive after a past wartime encounter. They last met in 1917 when Capt I. M. Moffat-Pender, pilot, and W. T. Smith, observer, fought a German fighter over Ypres. Their plane was hit, Moffat-Pender wounded, Smith set the enemy on fire and both crashed. They had believed the other perished.
The Lexington Circle met at Stewart Home with thirteen members and several children despite muddy roads. They quilted and dined cooperatively, discussed canning hints during roll, plan a July 26 family picnic at Sunset Park, and scheduled the next meeting with Mrs. Ralph Tadlock on August 12. Guests included Mrs. Bernice Stamford and Janice of Albany, Cal., and Helen Knupp. Providence schools launch speed reading program showing 40 percent faster pace in trained students compared with conventional methods.
A landlady and a new boarder clash over a cat keeping the boarder awake. The exchange hints at ongoing friction in a shared living space with minor dispute and social tension.
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