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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1950
Page
5
A collage of reflections on human purpose efficiency and politics. The piece critiques complacency and champions self reliance while warning against leadership that erodes liberty. It urges scrutiny of laws to protect universal rights over special privileges.
Opinion excerpts discuss taxation, government social programs, and defense spending. Commentary contrasts private earnings with public spending and cites critiques of postwar defense efficiency. Read as a collection of editorial opinions from multiple papers.
The YWCA council held a late Thursday meeting to discuss the budget and outline the fall and next year’s programs. The article notes Doris Ford plans to teach in India starting September and Doris and Valda Lans attended the mixer event with various activities and remarks about upcoming community events and softball play.
In Fort Worth Texas Mrs Joe Wray a housewife laughed when two boys ages 10 and unknown answered her doorbell pointing a lead pistol and demanding money The weapon looked like a toy but proved real when police recovered the .38 caliber revolver the next day The boys were captured after the incident and taken into custody by authorities
Washington Evening Journal in Washington Iowa lists staff including Shannon Eider Morris and Cowden with a notice of publication days and post office entry under a March 3 1879 act. Subscription rates show carrier in Washington and outside Iowa with weekly and yearly prices.
The record describes a 1650 export of 314 tonnes of iron bars for Ri Hutchinson of London, likely arranged in Saugus, Massachusetts and shipped aboard the Charles. It notes an eight year old’s anecdote about a revolver and a mistaken belief it was not real.
Holly Brooks at the Allerton Hotel lounge uses a record to deliver singing while her lips stay still to avoid a 20 percent federal tax on vocal performances. Hotel manager Sydney M. Chisholm says the scheme exposes the inequity of the tax law.
Exports of cotton cloth from the United States to Cuba totaled 44,202,000 square yards in 1949. Only four other nations imported more U S cotton cloth that year than Cuba.
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