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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1935
Page
6
Dixie Dugan focuses on her pet charge Laddie, the once undersized child left for care during his treatments. Laddie shows rapid progress toward normal growth as his temporary arrangement nears its end.
Iowa planners urge a 20.2 percent increase in truck payments to fund highway construction and maintenance. The second progress report cites traffic data showing heavy trucks use roads more than light types, with trucks paying only about 62 percent of per mile costs compared with passenger cars. A proposed tax schedule would tax trucks over 8 tons gross at 0.2 cents per ton mile beyond 16 000 miles yearly.
Miss Stella Goodspeed of Chicago visits Dayton Grove for a week with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Moore. The Goodspeed family are former residents remembered by locals. Howard Brown helped with wood sawing as Bruce and Tiva il Moore assisted. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Embree and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dusen also noted.
Berry attended the Shrine convention in Davenport on Tuesday. A string of local residents named in visits include Mr. and Mrs. Ted Anderson and others from Kalona and Keota plus the Enfield and Matison families. The Cleveland electric refrigerator market anticipates a 1935 sales rise of 26 to 40 percent.
Lawrence Vane, famed portraitist, is held as a material witness in the Isobel Vane murder linked to threats and tangled affairs. Betsey Potter, Wilbur Renton, Roger Thornley, and Uncle Cyrus K. Mantel figure in a web of love, jealousy, and a dawn visit to Kate Doyle’s Night Club as detectives probe the crime.
Wilbur Renton pursues Isobel Vane amid a tangled plot involving Betty Potter Cyrus Mantel Kate Doyle and a murder at Betty's apartment. Renton confronts odd clues and an eerie house of death as Betty recruits her uncle to investigate.
The piece notes 91 year old Eben Bailey in Ipswich Massachusetts remains an active member of St Joseph's Church choir. Bailey is described as a conductor and composer of religious music who organized the choir several years ago.
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