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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1946
Page
4
The fragment references biblical phrasing from 1 Chronicles 29 12 about riches honors power and governance. It emphasizes serving humanity through indirect paths rather than direct seeking.
The column discusses international roles and shifts in policy from Russia to Japan, noting changing attitudes toward MacArthur and global reconversion. It contrasts administration cuts to consolidate bureaus with public calls for broader human welfare and probes economic plans for highways, farming policy, and socialization fears amid wartime conditions.
Columbus Junction report notes Harry and Mrs. Honts bought the Pfeiffer home in Columbus City from Edward Pfeiffer of Waterloo. The dispatch also lists multiple farm purchases and relocations in the area including Gipple buying the Will Hawkins farm near Conesville and various service members returning home.
Columbus Junction voters will choose on March 25 in city hall with two distinct tickets. Citizens' ticket nominees include Wykert for mayor and Begson Gabriel Park director. Progressive ticket backs Paul Smith for mayor with Luckey Colton Cecil Enslin and Duncan as council candidates. Also notes local obituaries and service details for residents including Mrs KE Aldershot who died after a brief illness.
Mr and Mrs M L Blankenhorn entertained relatives at a dinner on the 81st birthday of Mrs Blankenhorn.
Glen Kempf Jr returns to Lincoln Nebraska after a six week stay with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Alliman in Wayland. Local social notes list dinners quilting and gatherings featuring many area families and neighbors.
County Superintendent Lester B. Krabill announced an all oral spelling contest at the courthouse on Saturday afternoon March 23 starting at two. Each town and parochial school may send two contestants, rural schools one, for seventh and eighth graders. Schools will hold local preliminaries to select their entrants. county winners advance to the state contest. Washington County has not held a county contest for two years.
A transit note advises never washing chenille spreads with white cottons even if color-fast because white lint clings to velvet tufts and dulls color. It stresses thorough washing of the machine or tub before laundering.
Aztec words for chocolate tomato coyote and ocelot spread worldwide after Spaniards conquered Mexico and carried them abroad. The passage notes the linguistic influence of the Aztec lexicon in global languages through colonial contact.
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