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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1939
Page
5
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt returns to San Francisco with her secretary Miss Malvina Thormpson for a visit to the fair. She recently broke ground for the federal building at the Golden Gate exposition last spring.
Community families gathered for a pot-luck supper at Young America school on Wednesday evening. Guests included Clara Faulkner and Mr and Mrs George Nelson and Paul. Grace Randell and Mildred Hughes visited home projects at Claud Rhodebeck’s after school. Mr and Mrs Van Doren visited Salem and took Mrs Mary Van Doren to Mt Pleasant hospital. The Claud Rhodebeck and Clarence Jackson families visited Ottumwa Sunday.
Sunday social notes describe visits among residents in Keota Brighton and Mediapolis. Re elected Young America school director Glenn Schwartz continues for another year. Festivities include Bart Gregory birthday celebrations and family dinners at multiple homes.
Council Bluffs resident Mrs. Abbott M. Dean wrote Murder Is a Collector's Item to prove she could pen 90 000 words. Doubleday Doran & Co. accepted the work and urged her to begin another novel immediately after her bet victory.
The sacred Buddhist swastika, known as the BudJatete figure, dates to centuries before the Christian era. By the fourteenth century Christians viewed it as a symbol of strength.
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