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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1937
Page
4
A reader column reflects on neighbors bringing meals and companionship while questioning modern childhood imagination. It notes Dr. J W Potter urging creative play and recalls anecdotes about John Deere staff Garn er and George Wallace sharing stories, implying familiar local figures.
A devotional note cites 1 Corinthians about earthly versus heavenly nature and recalls Grover Cleveland’s quip on delivering a postal card, linking faith with a light political quip in a brief thought.
Eyewitness accounts and suppressed photographs from the May 30th confrontation in south Chicago allege police brutality with deaths and many injuries. Observers urge measured policing and better training to avoid violence and long lasting social strife.
The text notes that broad conditions will have a depreciating effect on future economic conditions. It emphasizes the negative impact on the economy moving forward.
A New York press feature recounts David Berger a 6 feet 2 inch 280 pound immigrant who died in the coal bunkers of the Isenstein en route from Antwerp to America. Chief engineer Adolph Willmann and Captain Henry Clausson led a twelve hour rescue that saved his body and honor, as crew gathered to bury him after he handed four pictures to the rescuer.
The investigation committee at Washington is spending the last of its $750,000 and has already discovered that the American Telephone & Telegraph Company is a big business.
Johnny jokes about their family being animals as he tests his father. The father declares he is the goat, a playful self image within a cozy domestic moment full of humor and affection.
A collage of humorous items from Iowa’s Rubio Town and nearby scenes. Anecdotes mention George Wallace in Washington and a billy goat interrupting farm worship. Local notes recount visits, family events, a new barn under construction, and travel letters from New York couples.
A defense attorney questions a blonde witness about her whereabouts on Monday and Tuesday nights. The witness replies she was automobile riding. The lawyer presses again asking about tomorrow night as the prosecuting attorney objects to the line of questioning.
Miss Miriam Stannard won the Brighton drawing on Saturday night. Delores Clark of Packwood visits aunt Dot Meacham this week. A. J. Morgan and Ollie Morgan hosted a birthday at the parental home with relatives from Richland. Herman Eagle family and Marshall families attended a Peen Two picnic in Jefferson county. A. A. Sonten family traveled to Pella for a relative’s funeral and host visiting daughter and family from Honolulu.
Merrimac notices list Mrs. Walter Fitchner staying with her daughter in Washington to help care for her grandson. The Amrines visit Wellman to see Mrs. Mary Ann Starr who is seriously ill at her daughter Mrs. Robert Gage’s home. Various neighbors and relatives spend Sundays visiting relatives and returning home.
The letter reports June 14 as a historic moment as the U S Senate Judiciary Committee rejects the court bill. It names signers like J C O Mahoney and William H King and warns the measure would undermine the constitution and empower a dictatorial executive.
Secretary Morgenthau testifies at a public inquiry into tax dodging amid efforts by the wealthy to evade taxes. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi and Rep. Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina co chair the committee investigating the case.
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