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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1942
Page
3
A community birthday roundup lists Ruth Dupuis Richard Jugenheimer Elsie Wagner Frances Mast Jake Hoese and many others celebrating birthdays today and yesterday. Flag Day marks the wedding anniversary of FE Smith from 1907 and C W Hendrickson observes a 75th birthday.
Milton Norton and family hosted visitors from Milton Iowa while relatives from St Louis and Sigourney gathered at Mt Pleasant for family visits. Corporal Everett Chorpenning on furlough from Maine and Private Lyle Godfrey home on ten days from Georgia both spend time with their parents.
Evangelistic services begin Tuesday at 8 p m at the church of the Nazarene with Rev and Mrs P E K Patrone as special workers. Patrone has navy service, was concert master on the Leviathan, led the Indiana polis conservatory violin dept, touring in US and Canada, formerly with George White Scandals. Mrs Patrone is an accomplished violinist guitarist and youth speaker.
An old notion is questioned as a claim that savages have superior vision to civilized men is dismissed. The article argues savage sight is no better than ours.
Mrs Wooley reported they sold the last turkeys from Olds with an estimated four thousand birds counted. Rain has helped crops and gardens look green though weeds grow quickly. Donald Sands returned from work at the Robert Howell home during Howell's absence in Dubuque. Albert Hessel tine and son Howard visited Danville to meet newborn Peggy Ann at the Hesseltine home.
In Mobile Bay on August 5 1864 the Union fleet faced mined waters as Tecumseh struck a mine and sank. Admiral Farragut after torpedo warnings urged the fleet forward with the order Damn the torpedoes Captain Drayton go ahead Jouett full speed.
G H Mangold of Mangold Tire and Radiator Service at 309 North Iowa avenue reports war restrictions have reduced tire sales but boosted tire repair and radiator work. He notes radios halted, but battery, washing, and greasing services remain steady. Walter Starr and Kenton Mangold repair radiators for local and regional shops, making his shop a key eastern Iowa radiator center.
Free hospital in Athens traces its origin to Old Pheidias of Rhodes, a celebrated Greek physician who founded the institution over two millennia ago.
The cooperative dinner is canceled Thursday due to guest day luncheon. Women golfers will hold a cooperative supper Wednesday at the clubhouse instead of a luncheon. A mixed four some tournament starts at five. Private Albert K E Ward spent the weekend in Washington from Camp Strant and was joined by Priv Milford Bond of Rubio.
An authority claims lobster and ice cream can pair, but warns that digestible foods cannot form an in digestible mix. If illness follows a mixed intake, the fault lies elsewhere than the combination itself.
The text outlines the discovery of gold in California as the trigger for the golden age of surface gold prospecting. It notes that within fifty years exploration spread across the western United States, Australia, British Columbia, Alaska, and additional regions.
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