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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1950
Page
2
Ruth Chiati of Los Angeles credits Muscle-Rub with ending her crippling rheumatic and sciatic pains after three days. She urges others to try the doctor’s prescription remedy, noting the money back guarantee and location of Muscle-Rule Distributors in Los Angeles.
Brighton residents share funeral attendance and family visits as relatives travel from Starr Idaho to attend Gilbert Hoskins’s funeral. Multiple families gather for dinners and weekend visits near Ainsworth Mt Pleasant Mt. Vieasant as others attend graduation and a hospital birth.
Excavation has begun for Harlan Eliason's new house near the Catholic church in Columbus Junction. Local residents include Mrs. Alice Orris who will celebrate her 93rd birthday on June 7 at Restopía nursing home. La Moyne Shellabarger attends Boys State at Camp Dodge sponsored by the American Legion post.
Dr Johnson personally sought buyers to sell Oliver Goldsmith's novel The Vicar of Wakefield for $300 while Goldsmith waited in sheriff's custody. The sale occurred under humiliating circumstances after Goldsmith failed to pay rent to his landlady who had him arrested.
Cincinnati readers can hunt fossils at home as ancient sea floors underlie local field stones. A simple hammer and chisel reveal Skippy the scallop and other ancient life preserved in the Paleozoic rock, with clear lacquer to preserve findings.
A group of road-test drivers covered over 800 miles daily for 70 days in 110 degree heat along the Mexican border. Six cars ran 200-mile routes sixteen hours daily, six days a week, at 60 mph, totaling more than 50,000 miles. Post-test teardown showed wear under a thousandth of an inch and piston rings preserved. Gas mileage stayed nearly identical in last 5,000 miles and first 5,000, with only a 0.04 mpg difference.
The text notes that improved efficiency and better operating methods and materials reduced railroad operating costs in 1949 by about 900 million dollars compared with 1941. The comparison highlights substantial savings due to modernized practices and materials.
Local residents travel visits and family gatherings fill the weekly notices. Mr and Mrs Paul V Shearer plan a two week trip east visiting relatives in Pennsylvania and Washington DC. Mrs Laura Longwell and son Frank attended C W Walraven funeral in Oskaloosa. Mrs Max Benda leaves for Rochester MN for surgery at Kahler Hospital. Mrs Paul Widmer remains patient at University Hospital Iowa City with limited improvement. Ed Gibson and family from Des Moines spent weekend in Wayland. Widmer children join them for week in Des Moines. Guests at dinner included Willard Glaze and others from Houston and Ainsworth for the Morris Shull wedding. Dr C Raymond Reed attends Iowa Des Moines conference in Shenandoah. Rev Burham and family visiting amid conference activities. Various locals travel to Iowa City, Washington, Oakdale and Concord for study, visits, and summer plans. Wilma Kerr Smith to return from Oshkosh teaching to spend summer with mother. Elizabeth Casper and daughter Leslie McFarland celebrate Mrs Casper's 82nd birthday with dinner at LeRoy McGraw home.
The All-Star girls team will hold softball practice at 5 p.m. Thursday on Greenfield. The opening game is Friday night against Columbus Junction at Greenfield.
The record notes a Fairfield family, Mr. and Mrs. Junior Hinkle, visiting the parental E. C. Hinkle home. Several relatives including Baldosier, Brannon, Crile, and Mayer families are mentioned as visiting or calling on Sunday, with a hospital visit to Mrs. Lester Mayer and her newborn baby boy.
A copy of the first book illustrated with photographs, titled The Pencil of Nature, published by W H Fox Talbot in England in 1844, is noted as a collector’s prize.
Rev W L Sanford pastor of the Independent Bible church and Louisa Center Community church and Mrs Sanford celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary with a family dinner in Muscatine at noon. All children except two were present including Enoch Sanford in Cuba and Winston in Orlando.
Patricia Peters will graduate in June from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Davenport.
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