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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1938
Page
4
A devotional quote based on Daniel 4 27 urges breaking sin by righteousness and showing mercy to the poor to lengthen tranquility. It emphasizes counsel acceptability before God and mercy as a path to calm.
A column weighs up hopes for a recession rebound and warns of mounting national debt. It questions the durability of the supposed upturn, cites near term federal pump priming, and calls for citizens to sacrifice to reduce the debt while noting past prosperity amid ongoing economic readjustments.
Eugene Lyons left New York for Russia in 1927 as chief correspondent for United Press to study the Soviet system. His book Assignment In Utopia argues Soviet communism degraded into state tyranny, with famine, show trials, forced labor, and a disengaged, manipulated populace.
A speaker urges prioritizing debt repayment over new borrowing and calls for tax reductions for the general public rather than tax increases, arguing for broader relief for the masses.
A quirky note about Ed Connor holding a so called liar's license and a joke about fish stories. The column encourages membership with Ed Connor at the Gamble store and mentions local band details and humorous a.m. notes from PH sections.
A string of quirky vignettes and quips from a small town scene. anecdotes include a Pithecanthropus joke about money, a Virginia maid tale, a dancer with a black eye, lines from Walter Savage Landor, horse runaway humor, Roy Finch and the three little pigs disrupting traffic, and a closing “Goodnight” note.
London July 28 United Press reports a loaded truck breaches 62 miles of barbed wire frontier built by Britain at a cost of 1,000,099 dollars. Arab extremists vow terror while Jews press for a independent state supported by British wartime pledges. Dozens of revisionists arrested including Dr Ep hiram Washitz as tensions threaten to wider violence across the Holy Land.
Gracehill reports visits from Ed Rehmel and family of St. Petersburg to relatives. reunions and gatherings at the Beitel and Williams homes. local travel by Meyers family from Montana. Separate Palestine item notes 9,000 British troops in Palestine, ongoing violence, and Arab boycott hindering settlement efforts with many incidents and mass destruction cited.
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