Grapes and Wisdom on Cultivation
A short reflection contrasts sour grape cultivation with the ease of growing sweet grapes, urging restraint and avoiding needless bitterness when sweeter results are readily within reach.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1944
Page
4
March Verses and Voting Reflections Across Washington
A mix of satirical verse on weather politics and labor unrest, urging voter turnout. References to Berlin shortages, labor debates, and wartime rationing frame a call for civic duty and reasoned action within a tense home front.
Fragmented OCR Patter Weaves News and Wit
A garbled text collage mixes street slang proverbs and clipped anecdotes from a bygone era. It mentions wealth and poverty, a shirt factory incident, a theft of $2119,000 in lingerie, and a Midwest farmer encountering dust clouds on a road.
Weathered musings hint at farm life and humor
Fragmentary reminiscence shows a farmer and a wary "weathervane" voice debating weather and luck in the potato patch. The piece brushes on friendship, marriage, and weary rural humor as comic ramblings drift through memory.
Lt Donald Sands Arrives for Brief Parental Visit
South Hill residents report a short visit by Lt Donald Sands and his wife, accompanied by Mrs. Donald Stickney, arriving from Grenada Field Mississippi for an overnight stay at the Sands and Antierson family homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Sands
Veras
Sanis South Hill
Lt Donald Sands
Donald Stickney
Grenada
Field
Miss
Fiveword
Antiérson
War era notes of transfers and visits from Crawfordsville
Local records list military personnel and family visits across towns. Sands and Stickney families send Lt. Donald Sands and Airs. Donald Stickney to Alliance, Nott. Wilma Wooley nurses fever after illness. Dean Cherryholmes is ill. Families host dinners and casual gatherings as relatives travel for service and furloughs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiltra
Farrel Young
Dean Cherryholmes
Frank Sands
Howard Anderson
Donald Sands
Airs
Donald Stickney
Anderson and Sands
Davie Sands
Bobby
Larry Lees
Linda Sue
Winfield
John Anderson
Mabel
Nellie Anderson
Crawfordsville
Donald Lee
Kenneth
Wshington
Clayton
Firxt
Washington
Marvivyn
Albert Klein sells Riverside home to Wingler for move to California
Albert Klein sold his Riverside residence to William Wingler and held a final sale of household goods and tools before departing for California. Klein recently returned from a California trip and decided to relocate after being pleased with the west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Frincigseo
Klein Oles Tas
United States Navy
West Coast
Carla A. Linasley
Camp Maron
Calif
Doeegh
A. Linkley
John Rosco
Baby
William C'onner
Sai Dlewe
Tusband
Tithonei
Thane
Eaypeeis
Albert Klein
Wingler
California
Riverside
West
William Wingler
Cpl J Kientz Spends Furlough At Parental Homes
Merrimac village notes Cpl J Kientz and Mrs J Kientz spending furloughs at parental homes in Kingman Arizona. Kenneth Crina and family visit, Mr and Mrs Tale Christner and relatives gather Thursday evening with Will Brannon in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Schafers
Rank Smith
Ruth
Merlyn Anderson
Willis Bain
Pleasant
Kenneth
Janet
WHI Brannon
Lester Kients
Cpt
Dave Baldosier
Max Baldosier
Dacedie Joyce
John Baldosier
Hart Smith Minole Crile
Sunde
Howard Cook
Richland
Dora Hinkless
Harold Bisa Hone
Jay Spehafer
Chia Dean
Janice
Joe Kimherson
Cart
Merrimac
Chrii
Thoraday
Kingmas
Ariz
Leater
Shuppy Hon
Tale Christner
Kenneth Crilna
Joe Grater Wid
Will Brannon
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