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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1948
Page
12
A July scene shows a young boy in a sunsuit outside a shop licking a strawberry ice cream cone with quick, joyful movements. The moment captures a simple, cooling pleasure on a hot day, reflecting the town’s small pleasures and summertime pace.
The Washington Evening Journal in Washington Iowa publishes afternoons except Sunday. Subscription by carrier in Washington costs 25 cents per week.
A salon of brief anecdotes shows an Englishwoman freeing surplus milk to villagers with a deputy insisting on no waste, a job interviewer asserting responsibility after a joking claim, and a bridge scene with a boy signaling quiet while a trout fisher smiles at a four fish tally.
In Bethel on July 20 Jennie Wren nests in an oil barrel funnel and lays six eggs. The mother bird feeds the hungry nestlings as Rev. and Mrs. Milan Thompson and others visit Gideon home. Local farming mishap noted with hayload upset and minor injuries to two horses.
The record shows bow hunting over 13 years produced fewer than 1,000 arrow killed deer, far below the salvaged illegal gun kill in 1947 big game season. Today bowmen catch less than 1 percent of the legal annual deer kill, while more deer are slain by automobiles than by bow hunters.
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