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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1948
Page
4
A 1948 editorial collage discusses belief in God, Irish and St Patrick legends, and everyday life. It critiques letters to editors and spelling culture, notes Prohibition era debates on dairy versus oleo, and recalls storms and winter memories. It ends with celebrating St Patrick’s Day and green tributes.
The writer attends Fourth Presbyterian Church on North Michigan Avenue and the Chicago Sunday Evening Club at Orchestra Hall. He notes ushers in frock coats, a simple sermon on personal responsibility by Dr. Kenneth N. Hildebrand, and a notable evening with Bishop Bromley Oxnam discussing Protestant church union and possible Roman Catholic alignment. The crowd heard strong choral music from Bradley University and a large audience filled the venues.
A light column from Washington celebrates Irish humor and optimism with jokes about optimists and pessimists. It notes a blooming hoya plant in Mrs. Schmidt’s window and a gentleman who Irish jigged while balancing boxes on the square. It also highlights Colleen Sandra Moore at seventeen months and her cheerful town visit.
The 1890s era comes alive on screen as Diamond Jim debuts with Jean Arthur Cesar Romero Edward Arnold and Binnie Barnes. Arthur plays dual roles Jane Matthews and Emma Parry while Romero is Jerry Richardson and Arnold stars as Diamond Jim Brady. Barnes portrays Lillian Russell.
Joyce Reynolds co stars with Robert Hutton in Always Together at the State Theatre a comedy about a stenographer paid a million dollars to do as she pleases Other key cast members include Cecil Kellaway Ernest Truex and Don McGuire Frederick De Cordova directs from a Phoebe and Henry screenplay produced by Alex Gottlieb
A Wilmington North Carolina firm converts discarded pine slabs and veneer log cores into three-quarter inch boards. The slabs are kiln dried ripped into strips and glued into panels in a homemade press, producing a high quality core stock with a strong consumer reputation.
A lighthearted column notes greenth growth in buds, cites Franklin quote on taxes and folly, and recalls a high school boy jaunt with a back door exit and initials R. D. The piece playfully blends seasonal optimism with social witticisms and small-town reminiscence.
The regular Sunday Evening club choir of a similar size appeared at the eight o'clock service. Between services a recital on the hall organ occurred and congregational singing filled the interval. Dr Albert Joseph McCartney, the club's director, spoke at the early service and is noted as another great preacher. He is a Presbyterian.
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