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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1939
Page
7
Journal reader submissions recount spring hints with early field work and farm updates across Crawfordsville area. Mentions include Hendersons and Koehlers families, new Stone farm worker J. O. Hinninger, and local readers like Roberta K. and Milburn Underwood. Observations mix travel, crops, nascent business ventures, and light town anecdotes.
Editors and executives of Iowa newspapers convene for the 24th annual Iowa Press association meeting in Des Moines. About 400 attendees are expected with Merle Smith of Kansas City as principal banquet speaker. W. K. Rogers, Mount Pleasant News publisher and association president, to address the editors at the banquet.
Local market lists prices for sweet cream sour cream eggs and poultry. No. 1 and No. 2 sour cream offered with buyers paying per pound. Cull poultry and defective birds rejected.
Audubon framed a March story of Francis Young, 15, who rescued his 12 year old friend Keith Roth from Blue Grass creek after Keith slipped and fell into swift current near Audubon. Francis swam 100 yards across to save him, then kept the act quiet.
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