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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1943
Page
5
Public prose extols private enterprise as the engine of civilization and progress, claiming it revived freedom, spurred the Renaissance, expanded trade, and built America. It credits private initiative with industrial growth, invention, and military and cultural advancement, naming figures like Edison and Westinghouse.
A collage of quotes from multiple papers discusses wartime sentiment, police presence at a wedding, Wallace and Jones involvement in Europe, praise for medical men, miners under legal scrutiny, and blackbird roosts cited as garden pests.
A propagandistic wartime tract extols Private Enterprise as the driving force behind Allied victory and democratic ideals. It frames Private Property as the essence of Jeffersonian democracy and the liberal war effort across Africa and the Pacific.
A trio of 1940s lawmakers blasts wartime governance. Senator Harlan J. Bushfield denounces bureaucratic overreach and vague rules as soldiers suffer. Senator Lee O'Daniel calls for a major housecleaning of federal officials who distrust free enterprise. Representative Reid F. Murray faults the Office of Price Administration for prioritizing reform over production.
A young girl in the narrator’s home marks her third birthday and asserts she is now a big girl replacing Mama with Mudder and Daddy with Dad. The piece notes family moments and a late Memorial Day poem preference for poppy imagery as a wartime reflection.
Havre residents record Sunday gatherings and visits. John Ziegilowsky and Martha hosted relatives Elmer Graber’s family spent time with Graber girls Ruth Wilma and Dorothy. Others include the Westens Eisele Wittmer Kauffman families and Milton Smith with Ruth Norma and Jane Walker.
The Knoxville Express outlines postwar life expectations with gradual transformation. Readers expect routine living to continue for many, with some changes in housing, food, and mobility as new technologies and foods slowly enter daily life.
A garbled column of quirky phrases and misread lines discusses a modern mother and a young man, a secret engagement, a suitor, and a quip about money saved by sleep in Milan. The passage mixes misprints and unfamiliar aphorisms without a clear news event.
The article lists numerous local visits and dinners: Wittmer and Grandmother Wittmer families Sunday calls. Will Richard family at Glenn Davis home in Washington. Mason, Clyle, and Margaret with Oscar Jugenheimer. Rev. Milo Phillips at Walter Westen. Stout reunion at Sunset Park. Westen family at Harold Wilson. Fred Statler at Pete Lauber. Cannon and Max with Ralph McCreedy. Milo Phillips at Floyd Wover. Lauber at Henry Hendrickson. Max at Howard Witting and Dave Darbyshire near Crawfordsville. Weston and Larry at Harold Wilson Sunday.
Stephen Scott is named in a birth notice from Milwaukee. Verdlin Moore visits for three weeks furlough from Chanute Field. Billy Jarrard, 12, fractured his right arm in California while climbing for sparrow nests. Mrs. Will Kauffman injured her wrist but recovering. A local apricot canning effort yielded 125 quarts from a six bushel tree.
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