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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1939
Page
4
A collection of quotes on temperance faith and human dignity from Isaiah danger of drink and future optimism by Charles F Kettering George F E Woodberry and Dr James B Conant. The items frame risk faith and the value of thinkers alongside leaders.
A debate over broad attacks on business, its role in progress, and the hypocrisy of blanket accusations against all professions. The piece argues against sweeping charges by demagogues and defends business as a vital life blood of progress.
A compact editorial frames business as essential to civilization, arguing the processing and distribution system is indispensable and must persist even amid political upheaval. It emphasizes cooperation between producers and processors as central to employment and stability, with a call to sustain production and business together.
Mary Manners reports a July 22 rural mail carriers meeting in Crawfordsville. Local residents chat of trips to California and Colorado, a World’s Fair visit, hospital updates, and family visits. The community’s threshing season continues amid rains as adults attend picnics and visit relatives in Muscatine and Brighton.
Chameleons eat insects, but substitutes such as chopped meat meal worms or raw egg are used with ample water. Some refuse all food and are said to be very hard to keep in captivity beyond a few months.
A Washington barber says about one in four can grow a real beard, implying 75 of 750 whisker club members lack genuine facial hair. Local shops like Pioneer Drug-store and Harwood Shoe Store debut distinctive log fronts as town shoppers ponder which side they’re on.
A newspaper snippet suggests a girl pursues domestic science teaching after high school, then marries as gossip twists her tale. The text also recounts two men disputing a claim about a son’s earnings, clarifying it involved the junk business in Cleveland and a sum of $6000 not $50,000.
Still the same freckled comedian from Our Gang, Mickey Daniels plays a messenger boy in SOS Tidal Wave opening Wednesday at the Fox Theatre. Ralph Byrd Kay Sutton and Frank Jenks lead. Daniels has grown since his Our Gang days and now stands about five eight with many freckles as he faces audiences.
Lee Tracy stars as a circus adjuster in the drama Fixer Dogan with a full back lot of tents big top quarters sideshows and animal cages. Virginia Weidler appears as an orphan and Peggy Shannon as a lady in the featured roles with Rita LaRoy Bradley Page Jack Arnold and Irene Pranklin also in the cast for the RKO Radio East release.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Pauger of Iowa City spent the past week at the Meeks home in Crawfordsville. Mrs Pauger formerly Alice Meeks married July 11 in Iowa City and plans to return to work next week. The note mentions visitors Ira Mitchell and William Lemon among local residents.
Notice of dissolution for Southwest Richmond Electric Company after a July 14 1939 stockholders meeting in Richmond Iowa with president Jos Preper and secretary Leo Te Rockhorst. Resolution ratifies transfer of transmission lines to Iowa Electric Company and authorizes final wind up actions, stating the corporation is de dissolv ed.
The article explains flat cut mahogany produced by slicing a board from a log that does not cross the log's center. It notes the resulting veneer shows a striped edge with a shell or swirl figure in the center.
Reports from centennial committees were presented to members at the Rotary Club meeting. Fred Downing chaired sessions and introduced Al Goddard and Frank Parrish who shared progress and stories. Goddard recalled Yankton events and praised whisker related publicity for the upcoming centennial. Parrish entertained with dialect tales as Downing lauded broad cooperation.
The West Chester Methodist Church will celebrate a birthday party on July 30 with a noon basket dinner and an afternoon program. Rev. O A Alleson of Mt Union will speak at 1:30 PM, with greetings from former pastors and messages from writers read aloud. The Fourth Quarterly Conference follows on August 1 at 8 o clock, presided by Dr. Faucher.
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Moothart of Washington visited Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs Lyall Moore and family and with Mr and Mrs J B Moore. Charlie Stewart visited Friday evening with Mrs J B Moore, Lois Horton and Eileen Paulsen. Lois and Eileen visiting their aunt Mrs Ladehoff. Richard Sheets visited with Mr and Mrs J B Moore Thursday. Marie Rogers works at the foul store in William Sheeis and will stay for some time.
At Haydock Park England in 1929 only two shillings were bet on jumper Goole. The horse won and paid 1700 dollars on the 530 cent stake.
Des Moines reports William H. Klemme of Ridgeway Winneshiek County is the oldest Iowa living to serve in the state senate. Edward H. Vrba of Cresco is the youngest senator, eight miles away. They share meals and discuss politics.
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