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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1941
Page
4
A column notes the city founders ignored parking near the square and recounts a half hour in a backyard counting twelve songbird varieties. It questions leadership, praises Henry Ford, cautions about Russia, and covers Davenport Boys State delegates and a grass eating claim.
Since 1920 the railroads have abandoned 824 miles of rail lines in Iowa. These lines represent largely the small branch lines which have found the going impossible under present conditions.
Roosevelt and aides plan postwar reconstruction with broader federal control. Public works, price and business regulation expand under a federal system, risking dictatorship and undermining democracy after the war.
A daily column offers a 3.98 special and quirky definitions from a Lone Tree Iowa merchant. It jokes that shaving with a fan cools faster in summer and defines recession low mood and pantec as belt and pants shortages, respectively.
Albert explains to James that he did not mean bigamy. he simply says he just got married. The exchange centers on mistaken belief and a clarification about marriage.
A string of brief, humorous vignettes from everyday life. A woman at a post office eyeing red two cent stamps. a patient discussing payment for gas with a dentist. a visitor claiming to be an heir. marital quips about wisdom after marriage. a restaurant mislabeling swing music. a waiter dropping dinner. and a girl describing her baby brother as this year’s model.
A humor sketch shows a man in a dentist waiting room declining care while confessing he reads the dentist's serial in a magazine. The bit mixes macabre prices for shaves and coffins with social quips as a child protests washing.
A condemned man in New Orleans was spared when the sheriff failed to appear for the scheduled execution. The delay postponed the hanging, and legal postponement prevented the death penalty from being carried out on that date.
A profile of Stephen Collins Foster tracing his Pittsburgh roots and rise as America’s Troubadour. From early songs and the Knights of the Square Table to Old Folks at Home, My Old Kentucky Home, and Suwannee River, the piece covers royalties, personal struggles, and his lasting legacy including the Foster Memorial at the University of Pittsburgh.
District No 4 reports a weekend visit by Lieutenant LeRoy McGraw from Fort Riley and a series of Sunday dinners and social visits across nearby families including the McGraw, Brenneman, Mayers, and Throndsen households. Occasional farm tasks and cooperative dinners connect residents from Ottumwa to Tacoma and Waterloo with local hostelry and church group activities noted.
Each minute the government ships 100 pounds of flour via Blue Stamps to cities nationwide. The program uses stamp allotments to distribute flour.
In the Libyan desert the footprints on the sands of time are made by tanks trucks and tractors marking a military presence beyond human steps as reported by the New York Times.
Doctors say United States Navy provides premier medical care with regular shipboard sick calls, ashore hospitals, and the hospital ship Relief fully staffed for major operations. Recruits receive exams, physicals, dental care, and extensive health programs. apprentices earn $36 monthly with progression to hospital apprentice first class at $54 after eight months.
The system requires that letters addressed to Greece be transported around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean and then overland through Iran and Turkey. This route change affects delivery paths and transit times.
Virginia Stutsman, recently a councillor in a girls camp at Marshall, returns home with her parents Dr and Mrs E Stutsman. Nearby, Mr and Mrs Clarence Brown and family visit Lancaster Missouri to see Leota Brown with grandparents. Several Iowa and Minnesota residents visit, transfer, or host relatives as summer activities and family events unfold. A VFW aluminum drive by Boy Scouts and local gatherings mark the community news. An eight and a half pound birth to Kermit Klopfstein and wife in Mount Pleasant hospital is recorded.
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