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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1946
Page
3
The National Editorial Association notes a timeless method from Job 11 13 urging readers to set their heart aright and stretch out hands toward a higher power as a path to relief. The piece reflects on enduring guidance amid modern struggles.
Readers discuss inviting the Ys Men's quartet to perform at band concerts in Cen and consider inviting other barber shop groups. The piece also notes Iowa firecracker laws, local history tablets, Boy Scout revival led by churches, and a large Gingerich horse sale in Wellman with significant attendance and prices.
A collection of witty anecdotes: Shaw at lunch asks the orchestra to play dominoes until he finishes. MacDowell responds to a mother about her child’s wild rose. A bank pays out new bills to a teacher with the salary microbes joke. A boy endures a piano lesson while a salesman asks if his mother is home. Sargent meets a beautiful young lady in the park.
A quirky dialogue shows a painter elated by a self portrait that provokes a kiss from a passerby who fears it lacks a true likeness. Nearby a clerk jokes about alarm clocks that wake the household without disturbing the father.
A landscape item notes four sheep wandered over three miles from their owner’s farm. William Bash retrieved the animals after a paper notice, and the article mentions visitors to Mrs. Clark Bauer and social calls among local residents including Mrs. J A Huber, Iliene Huber, and Bessie McCall returning home from wintering with her son Glen.
A list of Decoration day callers includes Mrs. W. E. Paul and daughter from Aurora Illinois, Mrs. Nora Ebner, Mrs. Will Shalla, and Mrs. Reed Moore at the Howard McCall home, and parties such as Jess Curtis and Dale with others visiting Iowa City. Joy and Mary Ann Bauer joined Mr. and Mrs. Milton Ross and children to Iowa City. Janet and Joy and Mary Ann keep appointments with Dr Martha Spence the orthodontist there.
The Railway Express agency moved over 209 million shipments in 1945. It averaged 572 800 express shipments daily for the year, about 397 shipments per minute, and roughly 6.6 shipments each second.
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