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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1937
Page
4
A devotional note emphasizes Colossians 3 16 teaching that the word of Christ should dwell richly among believers in wisdom and encouragement. It urges teaching and admonishing one another with psalms hymns and spiritual songs while singing with grace in the heart to the Lord.
A poem by Bess Ayres extols old-fashioned religion and virtues. It contrasts new creeds with timeless values such as faith, understanding, kindness, and family, arguing enduring power comes from tested wisdom through misfortune and sorrow.
A columnist argues a rise in June marriages signals improving conditions or economy driving couples to wed. The piece cites anecdotes of early marriages, benefits of starting young, and questions whether postponing vows harms or helps couples, urging that love and livelihood push June weddings this season.
The article notes that this June may mark a record high for marriages among young couples, suggesting optimism for newlyweds and a strong trend in wedding rates for the period.
A magazine article explains the cephenemyia bug, about half an inch long, with a blunt nose and bee like body. It supposedly flies up to 800 miles an hour, has two rapid wings, lives three weeks, eats nothing, and may shoot its eyesight into deer while in flight.
The Chicago Daily News offers a concise definition: communists take all six cows, socialists take three, and fascists let you keep all six but you must feed them, highlighting a humorous contrast in political ideologies. The remark appears in a quotation from the Hutchinson News.
The Toronto mayor proposes a plan where the Dionne sisters could help pay Canada’s debt by a national gesture. It would grant Papa Dionne an honorary title as father of his country, per the Bridgeport Times Star.
An editorial declares that only economy can save civilization, expressing a bleak farewell to modern life. The Washington Post frames the remark as a sharp cultural critique about sustainability and future prospects.
The Tennessee Democrat Rep John Ridley Mitchell reintroduces a bill to abolish the 206 cent a mile travel allowance for members. Critics say the move is a joke while urging actual expenses be paid. The New York Telegram backs the bill, urging action. Also noted: California reports 21 percent of fatal accidents in 1936 involved previously drinking drivers.
Visitors to Edinburgh may tour the Canongate gateway to Holyrood Palace, a sixteenth century house famed as Scotland’s debtor sanctuary. The article notes debtors’ prisons were a feature of bygone times and mentions a small den near the oldest building used to jail debtors and delinquents by mint officers.
The Goajiro people hold that a person’s blood belongs to his mother and kin, requiring payment to them for injury to blood. The article lists various plants used by the Indians including maize, potatoes, peppers, cotton, and cacay. It also explains public administrators’ role in settling decedent estates and notes that voice travel by telephone can send sound around the world in a quarter of a second.
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