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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1938
Page
8
Claudette Colbert tests a scene with Rex O'Malley and Herbert Marshall on the Zara Paramount set. Director George Cukor asks for a more natural touch as Colbert jokes about a newspaperman and a kiss on the shoulder during filming.
A Journal Subscription Representative shares brief items from nearby towns. Short notices cover local events, community updates, and small happenings reflecting regional life and civic activity.
Chicago markets show hogs 9,000 head with direct 5,000 and steady price ranges from 8.75 to 10.60 by weight class. Cattle receipts 1,500 with calves 500 and steady beef steers 11.00 to 13.00, cows 5.50 to 8.25. Sheep 4,500 steady with lambs 9.00 to 9.60 and yearlings 6.75 to 8.26.
Joe Podaris and W. R. McCreedy families near Haskins noted rain Wednesday night that stopped farming Thursday. Mrs. Paul Peiffer and Jimmy of Washington R. 2 shopped in town. William Leichty of Pleasant R. 6 visited Phillips and Hebners. Richard Arthur and Harry Baker of Columbus Junction left thanks for similar messages and early customer favors.
Ainsworth residents note rain and wet conditions delaying threshing. Vince Skubal and family plan coat linings on their farm home while Frank Skubal and sons repair roofs and improve their property. Observers mention horses and farm machinery, including a tractor, in Edgar Whestines area.
The account notes Gretchen Slinkard quips about wisdom teeth and aging while Harrison, Mr. Davison, and Sam work on alfalfa hay. Sam mentions the rain softening corn, and a playful remark about talking to his wife. The writeup hints at a year’s end outlook and a “Three Quarter Century club” event at the country club.
Two gunmen in overalls entered Farmington State premises in a case description cut off mid sentence leaving few details on motive and outcome. Local authorities have not released a full statement or investigative findings.
In a Detroit bank a 75-year-old woman identified as Mrs Idan Jinneyfield resisted a robber who demanded all to lie down. The gambler grabbed $1650 from the cashier cage before fleeing with one other bandit. Bank officials credited her defense with limiting further losses.
A set of miscellany notes includes piano tuning as a suitable craft for the blind, a claim about the body’s center of gravity leaning right, Vatican palace with about 1100 rooms, Canada’s inland waters coverage as the most extensive, Crater Lake’s depth preventing freezing, and mentions of John Jacob Simmerings in Washington R. 4 expressing progress toward cooler weather.
William Darbyshire grows a field of beans on R. 8 in northeast Washington that observers call the cleanest and best seen in the area.
A tired man enters a barber shop sinks in a chair asks for a shave but the barber says the chair is too low. The man sighs and requests a haircut instead, showing his fatigue.
Ed Colton, a farmer in Washington R 2, is described as preferring not to cook constantly but aided by good neighbors and proximity to town. He raises Hereford colored hogs and their cure is mentioned as fairly good. The item also notes St Patrick's Cathedral in New York City holds 19 bells and weighs from 270 to 6000 pounds, plus general facts: about 200 earthquakes occur yearly in the United States and 85 percent of NYC births take place in hospitals.
Isa Miranda was replaced in Zaza and sent Claudette flowers with luck wishes. Claudette then took over Simone Simon in Under Two Flags causing a rift with the French star. On Room Service the Marx Brothers, Frankie Albertson, and a live turkey disrupt filming as they face meals and humane society scrutiny.
Old and new leaders of the American Bar Association appear at the Cleveland convention. Left is retiring president Arthur T. Van derbilt and right is Frank J. Hogen of Washington, the incoming president.
Chicago July 29 Eggs market steady to easy with 9 969 cases receipts and various firsts and dirties. butter market steady with 22 108 pounds receipts and multiple grade ranges. poultry market steady to easy with mixed percentage ranges for broilers ducks geese turkeys and roosters.
Report from Chicago details a Marion Brooks era production where a prop turkey on wires is used in a scene testing actors and director William Seiter. Groucho Marx quips about the setup while Gregory Ratoff guides the star Alice Faye in a dramatic sequence for By the Dawn's Early Light.
At Ralph Kelsey’s farm a tractor exhaust ignited windrow hay while loading, but workers quickly dumped burning hay to save the loader and rack. The item also notes threshers’ dinners, 4 H health contest prep, and local harvest activity across Harmony and Lexington with several visits and gatherings.
Katherine McCormick 75, long linked to Omaha’s prominent McCormick family, died Sunday at her sister Mrs. W A Johnson’s home at 208 South Thirty third street after two years of illness and a heart attack. Survived by Mrs. Johnson. brothers Edward and George McCormick, railroad contractors and bank heads in Missouri and Nebraska, are noted as deceased. Funeral services Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. from John A Gentlemen mortuary to St Peter’s church at 6:45 with burial in Washington, Iowa. Rosary at 8 p.m. tonight at the mortuary.
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