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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1941
Page
4
A devotional led by the message that peace comes through stillness with God. Emphasizes meeting God in silence and solitude and loving the Lord with all heart, soul, and might drawn from Deuteronomy 6 5.
Citizens discuss seven miles more of surfaced streets amid dusty lore while a columnist warns of chiggers biting exposed skin and offers home remedies. War zone reports cite water scarcity and scorched earth tactics as harvest notes ponder labor and political shifts, referencing Babylonian collective bargaining and social policy.
A collection of humorous vignettes from wartime days including letters about potatoes and guns, a joking psychiatrist scene with a negro soldier, reflections on life stages for men, a Scotsman at the county fair, and a class joke about Tsars and Tsardines.
A girl invites a companion to her home for a meal and states she made the cake and hemstitched the napkins. The report notes the claim as part of a social encounter.
Local ad urges readers to select a Magic Chef or Universal gas range now while stock remains full and to pay on easy terms.
In a playful exchange from the Study in Figures column a reader notes the leap year occurs every four years while recalling Marian whom they haven’t seen in ten years. The banter riffs on aging and a joke about keeping a girlish figure.
Community notes recall visits to Edwin Leeper home Mt Pleasant and gatherings at the Cottonwood church. A serious traffic accident near Rome injures William Leeper with head injuries and broken ribs while other residents attend funerals and social events. multiple families are listed in gatherings and home projects across Washington Wellman and Kin.
Two golfers exchange brief banter about the course traps with the second asking for help to close the mouth and end the exchange.
A comic exchange unfolds as a caterpillar lyricist recalls twenty years at the Met while an ironic husband confronts a teacher of elocution about his wife. The tutor notes the pupil is apt, prompting sly humor about communication and performance.
A friend recalls meeting a colored man wearing a large glittering lodge emblem on his coat lapel. The dialogue shows curiosity about the badge as inward secret evidence, with a classroom-like exchange about seeing good in all things and a fox tale.
Threshing finished in Coppock area with very fine oats yielding about 38 to 60 bushels per acre. Returns to Camp Bowie Texas after 10 day furlough with family. Local farming and visiting notes include Ralph Kauffman, Allen Myers, Willard Hauenstein, Dixon Illinois trip, and sand hauling by Washington Concrete Material from John Van Sant farm.
Members of the Mrs. Elizabeth Schlabaugh family held a Sunday reunion at the Emery Kempf home in Wellman. The gathering included birthday and anniversary observances for Mrs. Kempf, Mrs. J. M. Schlabaugh, and Mrs. W. Schlabaugh.
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