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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1931
Page
4
Poem advises building a lockable box to shelter from pain and embarrassment. It urges fitting a sturdy hasp and padlock and placing failures and heartaches inside, then sitting on the lid to laugh at misfortune.
The Amana colonies decided to shift from a ninety year old common sharing system to a more individualistic plan. They reached the decision peacefully after study and now aim to modernize, allowing youth to move, rise, and expand their opportunities within the settlement.
Sir Hubert Wilkins submarine Nautilus went helpless crossing the Atlantic and was towed. The episode warns that Arctic dives demand reliable batteries and self reliance if the craft goes under ice with no rescue ship nearby.
An $85 million private company plans to construct one thousand autohavens across U S highways at major travel points. Each autohaven will offer 21 rooms a restaurant a soda fountain auto repair and shower baths for men and women. The first ten will be within 150 miles of Chicago Detroit St. Louis and Cincinnati.
A reader named Bernice McMullen visits the Journal office to collect fifty cents. She mentions stories, an uncle, a clarinet incident, and a comment about fingers, then signs off with a note about landscape improvements by a company.
Iowa Good Roads Association urges counties to vote primary road bonds where lacking and curb new bonds in others. The plan preserves the state primary road fund, expands farm to market routes, and paves roads with heavy traffic while funding continues at 3 cents gasoline tax split between primary and secondary roads.
The speaker criticizes calls to borrow billions for national manufacturing and prosperity, recalling wartime borrowing and pointing to the need for disciplined spending and eventual repayment. The passage urges a calm, sane recovery from debt and warns of long term depressant effects if recklessness continues.
The excerpt outlines common word usage and pronunciation errors. It contrasts elegant with excellent dinner and explains heroine as a woman of heroic character. It includes a pronunciation guide highlighting common mispronunciations and notes on syllable emphasis.
Wiley Post will pilot the May Fly the Whole Wide World Round with Harold Gatty as co pilot. Post also appears in the engine image and says the great adventure will begin soon.
A local note praises new Central Park benches for comfort and even the possibility of lying down. The park board is praised for their style and openness to adding more benches. Amator, a longtime reader, remains active and shares a new poem about youth and aging, urging readers to ponder despite doubt.
A lighthearted note describes Mary carrying a bathing suit in her purse that keeps shrinking each time she wears it, sparking amusement.
A collection of quips and jokes about everyday excesses and motley sayings. The text riffs on sarcasm humor about cantaloupes and wine, a veiled note on wartime policy, and a light mockery of social foibles among businessmen and friends. The tone is playful and dialogic with regional flourishes.
Two soldiers debate buglers and music, then recall strawberry season fading and look to cherry season with a river nickname joke. Bus Westermark at Lemmon’s Drop stores a plan soda mixup prompts strawberryless vanilla notes. Long evening walks become common among town youth.
Des Moines reports a raid leads to the arrest of Kenneth Sonderleiter over a business card with contact lines and a slogan “always at service of my customers” as agents seize five gallons of alcohol 25 quarts of whiskey and 125 cases of beer. Another raid nets 240 gallons of wine at John Pinini’s home. Ames notes Judge Florence Allen misses her talk at the Iowa 4 H girls convention and Gov Turner’s absence. 1 400 girls attend. Des Moines prints an appeal by Glenn Yearous in his school superintendent discharge case to State Superintendent Arnes Samuelson.
Mrs W Spessard Curt and family from Ainsworth visited relatives. Harold Morris and family from St Paul toured Washington D C from Iowa with Aunt Mrs Filla Rowan. Merle Chambers and Mary Chambers with G L Neiswanger spent the weekend with their mother. They travelled to Brighton Sunday. Rev Frank McAlister and family take a two week vacation visiting near Pittsburgh. Charles Porter and Haymond Porter of Helena and Rock Island visit relatives. James Fitzgerald and family sent Ben Fitzgerald to Toledo for a infected lip. he recovered and returned. Rev J H H Krenmyre Mrs W BR Acheson and family with Ralph and Hnneh Morris attended the David Evans funeral in Dawn Missouri. they returned home Wednesday evening.
Two couples share a playful seashore stroll with a poetic interlude. The bride remarks on the groom's verse as they joke about not needing to speak to others, and part with a lighthearted good night gesture.
Travers Lorrimer, shell shocked son of a rich widow, mistakes Mary Lou Thurston for Delight Harford and Mary Lou agrees to play the role. Larry Mitchell finds the real Delight, Delight is hardened by life, and Mary Lou begins a mission to win over Mrs. Lorrimer and avert a marriage scandal.
During a tense war time period Delight contemplates confronting Mrs. Lorrimer to challenge her treatment of Lorrimer. She recalls his chivalry and fidelity while weighing a bold plan to visit Westmill incognito and observe the situation firsthand. She departs at dawn for Grand Central Station and a Sunday train to Connecticut.
Delight overhears a private conversation between Mary Lou and Lorrimer near the hedge at Westwood House. He professes long‑hidden affection and proposes a day out to fly and discuss plans as Delight, listening unseen, wrestles with jealousy and a fate that may redefine her future.
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