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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1936
Page
8
Richard Dix stars in a new RKO drama at the Fox in a twist on romance and adventure. Margaret Callahan leads with Erik Rhodes and Owen Davis Jr. in supporting roles under Louis King’s direction.
Rutgers graduate and longtime star Paul Robeson says he prefers reaching general movie and theater audiences over the intellectual set. He notes his All American athletic honors and debating work at Rutgers while planning to feature in Universal's Show Boat at the State Theater.
In the Amana Colonies Iowa women in five of seven colonies study the business side of homemaking for the first time. Home demonstration agent Florence Schuerman notes lessons on household buying money planning and business and legal information. Plans also call for more nutrition extension courses in 1926 37 beginning this fall.
The Inn pavilion at Arnolds Park in Iowa the longtime ballroom near Lake Okoboji must be razed by order of state conservation authorities. The move follows a 1930s era directive from the old state conservation board applying to Spirit Lake and nearby Okoboji lakes properties.
A writer from the New York Herald Tribune notes lunar tides occur in the atmosphere and are detectable through long-term observations. Dutch observatories at Batavia Java maintain hourly temperature and pressure readings for over six decades, revealing pressure changes and alternating compression and expansion driven by the Moon.
Varying opinions place Seylite as the world’s greatest horseman for horsemanship and command of large cavalry forces. Serving the Prussian king in the eighteenth century he reportedly rode a windmill in motion and dashed between falls without touching. He rose to lieutenant general before age forty and allegedly could manage 10,000 cavalry with the same ease as his horse.
The article lists principal honey sources across regions: alfalfa and sweet clover in the West. white clover, sweet clover, Spanish needle and heartsease in the Central states. cotton mesquite horse mint and sweet clover in the South. buckwheat and white clover in the East, North, and Canada. It also notes range blossoms cleome and basswood as part of the list.
The line urges a simple act of kindness a warm grin can brighten a passerby’s day. It promotes a small daily gesture as a universal mood lifter amid ordinary routines.
In fog as hammers ring over the Golden Gate, Sammy Curtin escapes from a customs launch and dives into the tide near the bridge. Pursued by Sgt Blake on the shore, Curtin washes ashore near Alcatraz and jokes that he has come home on the tide to the Rock.
The article notes that until relatively recently smallpox was regarded as an unavoidable disease rather than a preventable illness, reflecting historic attitudes toward public health and immunity.
Senator Frederick Stei wer delivered the keynote address at the Republican national convention in Cleveland but relaxed with a brief smile for photographers in his hotel room.
Assairs Townsend and Dr Francis Townsend faced fierce criticism from Townsend supporters as Charles M Hawks former Townsend manager for Massachusetts and other Townsend leaders appeared before a congressional committee probing the DARP Hawks called Townsend an autocrat and a despot in a tense scene.
One of the most attractive delegates at the Republican national convention in Cleveland was Mrs Roy Wates, national committeewoman from Alabama.
A UPI survey reports foreign wheat farmers face grasshoppers and cutworms like Americans. Canada reports late seeding and potential land shifts to coarse grains amid dry spells and wind driven soil drift. Argentina, Australia, Romania, China also show rains, pests, or surplus shifts affecting crops.
Matthew Caldwell earned the nickname Paul Revere of Texas for riding 48 miles to summon colonists to Gonzales on the eve of the first Texas Revolution battle fought there October 8 1835.
In France between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries more than ten animals faced trials for crimes. The final case involved a cow executed in the year 17 percent? All defendants were defended by coun ae.
Iowa City June 9 1935 Prof George R Davies says state business is up 50 percent from its 1932 low but remains below recoveries of past depressions. He notes slow consumption political uncertainties and international issues slow the rebound and warns investment and employment need stronger growth. Building contracts and bank debits show gains over last year but remain short of full recovery.
Grinnell College awarded bachelor degrees to 118 graduates in a colorful ceremony. Dr John S. Nollen, president, conferred degrees after a address by Thomas W. Smith of the University of Chicago. The event highlighted scholarship honors and alumni reopening.
The institution awarded the honorary doctor of science degree to a Telephone laboratories unit in New York. Among degrees conferred 113 were bachelor of arts and five were bachelor of music.
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