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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1938
Page
4
Bible verse from Psalm 85 6 7 opens the devotional with a plea for revival and mercy. A witty aside on charm notes that a appealing personality hides a hint of commonness, with a quote from George Jean Nathan about ingratiating warmth.
The article recalls J Percival Pollard author and dramatist who lived here as a youth about fifty years ago. Son of Joseph Pollard Jr an area ab str actor, he lived with a German stepmother, married twice and had one son Joseph P Pollard. Both father and son are buried in Elm Grove cemetery.
A restaurant proprietor in Alton Illinois enraged by a picket line outside his doorway hires a colored woman to stand by the entrance with a sign reading Just Worried. The incident centers on an unfair sign and tension at the doorway.
An elephant shipped in a baggage car between Chicago and Denver amused and unsettled passengers by repeatedly pulling the air brake rope. The disruption caused the train to be six hours late due to multiple stops.
The Massachusetts motorist, lost on a dirt road at night, followed a lead to a Taunton racetrack after about thirty minutes of driving. A man in a parked car informed him he had reached the track, a moment recounted by Joseph P. Pollard in The New Yorker.
The speaker laments focus on broad topics while highlighting life preservation, natural resource conservation, and social justice. He argues murder rates are high, noting about ten thousand lives lost annually, urging attention to protecting human life.
The text argues crime drains billions, killing thousands annually, and calls for tough legal action and safer roads. It urges redirecting funds from popular but wasteful projects to curb murder, accidents, and health neglect while emphasizing conservation of natural resources, water, forests, and land.
The piece argues disease prevention starts before birth and continues through childhood and youth. It stresses being well born and adopting healthy habits early to avoid chronic disorders in later life, urging education to focus on proper living for longevity and comfort in old age.
A Central Constructor column fragment imitates a tavern scene where political and social rhetoric mix. It echoes the WPA administrator Harry Hopkins urging free voting while a patron mocks enforcing choices and suggests Gus's Guzzle as a preferred beer. The parody highlights distrust and satire of modern public life.
A poem reflects on a mother whose two chests hold memories rather than riches. The golden jewel box stores keepsakes like lockets rings and pearls while a blue ribboned pasteboard box contains a golden cart and a worn baby shoe. Time shows gifts bought with tears outvalue gold.
A sharp remark by a keen observer to a woman provokes a funny misunderstanding about stockings. The woman responds angrily, clarifying that she wears no stockings, turning the moment into a flurry of embarrassed laughter.
A married woman tells her husband she will not follow his mother’s example and wait on him, delivering a pointed remark about household roles. The line reflects humor and domestic mockery common in personal exchange.
A humorous domestic vignette describes a bride overwhelmed by visitors and a sign asking for no gifts. A timid traveler asks for an old pair of pants while the husband comments on sewing speed warning of a possible accident, highlighting mutual miscommunication in daily life.
A traveling pitchman in a small town offered $190 cash to anyone squeezing a lemon dry. An undersized man, claiming to be secretary of a society of stingy men, squeezes two drops and refuses to reveal the trick, leaving the crowd amused.
A fragmentary poem fragment questions what people owe to God for natural wonders. It lists sums for the sun hill brook night and day birds flowers and spring, framing human obligation as infinite and unpayable, ending with a thought on universal debt.
A Washington county household features unexpected gender role dynamics with the wife driving from the back seat while the husband handles cooking from the dining room, illustrating a nontraditional division of chores.
Office Grouch entered the sanctum with mischief and tells a baffling tale about a bell tolled daily. The exchange ends with a quip on horse sense and the demand for a stable nation.
A reflective note contrasts life’s brevity with resisting animosity and warns that greed corrupts. The line hints at a moral tension between love of money and humane behavior, urging curiosity and positive conduct over petty grudges.
In Washington County Iowa March Term 1938 ll E Southwick as assignee for Pigintiff vs Lloyd Shetler defendant. Writ of attachment issued May 19 1938 garnished Isaiah P Yoder administrator with will annexed of Peter Shetler deceased as debtor. Defendant ordered to appear September 12 1938 to answer interrogatories. Witness H M Putnam sheriff. Dates May 21 28 June 4 11.
A special election will be held at the Egypt school house on Saturday June 18 1938 in Jackson township Washington county Iowa to vote on issuing bonds not to exceed 1600 for a new school building and to authorize disposing of the present building Polls open 1 PM to 3 PM Harry Malichky President Claud Sojka Secretary.
Carole Lombard and Fernand Gravet headline the Fox Theatre for a local premiere of Fools for Scandal a Warner Bros comedy romance directed by Mervyn LeRoy Rodgers and Hart provide the score including There's A Boy in Harlem and Can You Forget The film features a Paris setting with an incognito Baron and an Ark Party plus a Paris night club scene Ralph Bellamy Isabel Jeans and others fill the cast.
El Tronador rises on the border of Argentina and Chile its name reflecting loud glacier rumbles as massive ice shifts grip the landscape and echo across the countryside.
Spaniards report cutting mahogany trees in Jamaica at the close of the sixteenth century. The trees measured 36 feet in girth, illustrating the scale of colonial timber resources cited in the account.
A fragmented meditation contrasts art and literature with daily appetite. The speaker muses on corned beef and cabbage, mentions Betty and wel come as delicate and easily worn, and muses on cautious restraint in inviting social moments.
Babson argues that while June 1938 is weak, six month figures show improvement versus 1932 1933 and 1934. He credits the new government mortgage plan FHA financing and rising home building with lifting construction costs and warns inflation or repayment pressure if business fails to rise. He critiques labor unions and industry waste and predicts a next upswing as shortages push demand.
Shiloh notes list visits by families including Van Nostrand Arm strong Wagner Sigafoose Caldwell and others at homes in Davenport Rock Island Washington and Merrimac. Birthday and anniversary mentions mix with civic and school events and a junior senior banquet at a local gem class play.
In Accum tundra regions a small blackfish ex cog under moss remains frozen solid for its vacation.
The text asserts that sound requires a mediating medium such as air or water and cannot travel in a vacuum. It notes that sound needs a medium to propagate and cannot be transmitted through empty space.
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