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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1955
Page
6
A local column notes the summer solstice at 10 32 p m gives long days ahead with over fifteen hours of daylight daily. It muses on work time, free speech as opportunism, wedding customs abroad, and spring crops including lettuce. It also pokes fun at manners, advertising tricks and common advice columns.
Albany New York state received a check for 3.63 as the state's share of proceeds from the sale of an abandoned schoolhouse near Brownsville Jefferson county. The old school sold five years ago for 100.01.
The FBI filed charges against Ramon Remine, 61, Greenville, Tennessee, now at large, in the $12,000 Mount Auburn bank robbery on June 18. Investigators traced Remine to Cedar Rapids the afternoon of the crime. his current whereabouts are unknown. He previously robbed a Rogersville bank in 1936 and served time in Atlanta Federal Prison. He has been released conditionally since September 1954 and has not contacted his probation officer since February.
Household goods sale on June 25 at Chau Tauqua Park in Columbus Junction Iowa begins 10 a.m. Mr and Mrs H W Eliason listed. Livestock sales held weekly at Ollie Livestock Exchange Ollie Iowa Tuesdays 1 p.m. Kalona Sales Barn Kalona Iowa Thursdays. Wayland Sale Company Wayland Iowa Mondays. Washington Livestock Sales Company West of Washington on highway 92 Fridays 12 30 p.m.
Chicago grain table lists July through March futures for Wheat Corn Oats Rye and Soybeans with prices, changes and closes. Entries mix highs lows and closings with off or unchg notes, reflecting mixed activity across months and commodities.
Wanted Closing Time reads that all classified copy received before the listed time will be published the same day. The notice advises callers to submit early or bring copy in the day before for best service.
Aphids swarm in some areas while mosquitos and gnats proliferate, leaving gardeners with bites welts and itching. Homeowners report persistent irritation as they battle pests across beds and shrubs.
Capt Harold E Fischer Jr one of four American fliers released from a Chinese prison camp thanked UN officials for help. He cited Dag Hammarskjold and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr and spoke of additional detainees still in China. Lodge received a World Veterans Foundation plaque as Fischer commented on continued efforts to free others.
In Los Angeles four year old Teddy Levy known as The Terror is charged with battery in a 150000 damage suit filed by his 55 year old babysitting grandmother Ann Rubin. She alleges two fractured vertebrae from an incident swinging on a shower curtain rod and leaping over a couch. The suit targets the boy and his parents.
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