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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1940
Page
4
A brief devotional note invites readers to come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need, citing Hebrews 4 16. The message centers on faith, prayer, and divine aid in hardship.
The Washington Chamber of Commerce outlines a broad program for the year, led by a mid October Corn Festival to boost community life beyond city lines. The group emphasizes rural and urban unity, rejects price fixing, and promotes general betterment with a focus on local and regional prosperity. A sidebar jokes about spinach and national diets, suggesting economic fixes through consumption rather than policy.
The speaker notes shrinking coal supply and rising costs from mortgage interest and dieting taxes, urging practical action and a state income tax remedy for federal employers. They warn that fuel won’t last and plan cannot hinge on June warmth in Iowa.
A Saturday near Easter tension arose when a husband confronted his wife over a new lampshade she showed him. He warned she would go to church alone if she wore that hat, declaring there is a limit to his tolerance for such things.
Cherokee Times reports Lester Barlow, a former Clear Lake Iowan now in Connecticut, asserts a liquid oxygen and carbon bomb is the most destructive weapon yet. Congressional committees plan tests next week to evaluate the military implications of his claim.
A philosophical assertion extols the creator behind wealth learning and achievement. The speaker claims work as the prime force that calls forth hidden powers of mind and body, surpassing wealth, fame, or power in importance.
A golfer drives 300 yards to the first green and sinks a 10 foot putt for a hole in one. On the second hole the ball reaches the green, reaches the cup, and disappears, prompting the golfer to declare a hole in one while his caddy notes improvement.
A collage of holiday humor and reflections includes a boy claiming extra Christmas success from waking early, a Yale student misquoting Virgil with a professor's quip, and a photographer joke about a mounted portrait. John D. Rockefeller honors the season with a birthday message praising liberty and common good.
Sir Basil Zaharoff, renowned munitions magnate, established chairs of aviation at the Universities of Paris Petrograd and London and endowed the Marshal Foch professorship of French literature at Oxford University along with the Field Marshal Haig chair of English literature at Paris University.
William A. Barry of Syracuse N Y was sent 52 cents with a note claiming to balance a spiritual ledger caused by a prior act of plucking a geranium from a park garden. The letter states the geranium keeps him from being all square with the world.
A compiled list of business anniversaries noting March starting dates across numerous firms. Includes Cox Motor Company Sartor & Sartor Mangold's Tire & Radiator Service Bud's Garage Roberta Beauty Salon Reister Bros Kurtz Market Carson Plumbing & Heating Co Johnson's Grocery & Market Eveready Plumbing Heating Co Globe Beauty & Barber Shop Rockwood's Burger Produce and others with years ranging from 1896 to 1987.
A scientist creates an earthquake announcer that sounds like an alarm clock. The piece notes a broader demand for alerts that quake like earthquakes. Published in the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette.
In Columbus Junction on March 23 Miss Margaret McMath daughter of Elvin and Mrs McMath wed Merle Cotton son of Larry Cotton at the Presbyterian church parsonage in Iowa City. Attendants were Pearl Colton and Herbert Ellingsen. The couple will reside on a farm near Haskins. Also noted are weddings of Margery Snakenberg and Lawrence Rhea in Sigourney and Harriet Wince to Floyd Ross in Iowa City with receptions and attendants described.
Modern Africa flavored film features Ann Sothern and John Carroll as a showgirl stranded on the west coast of Africa. Rita Johnson Shepperd Strudwick and others appear in a drama about courage, romance, and emergency surgery with elaborate African village and medical set pieces.
Attendance records note Mrs. Ross a Cotter high school graduate who has worked two years at Winfield and plans to live on a farm near Winfield. Calendar officers of the Presbyterian church Calendar were elected with Mrs. K. E. L. Gabriel as president and Mrs. R. P. Hawkins as vice president.
Henry Clay Work, a printer turned songwriter, wrote North oriented Civil War songs including Marching Through Georgia. He set text in type and rose to fame with Sherman’s march, but later faced financial ruin and uneasy fame as fans hailed Sherman years after. An upright singer, Monday.
Judge J J P O'Brien orders six balls and chains to be used on men who fail to support their wives and families at Wellsburg with a history of punishing offenders by bread and water diets in the past.
The minutes record Chell as secretary and Mrs. C A Stephens as treasurer at the recent local committee meeting. The roles were confirmed in the session led by the chair.
Mangold's Car and Rad Service marks its fifth anniversary with Easter week events and car care specials. Harold Gold runs operations including appointments for car washes and radiator work, showcasing radiator repair and new cleaning solutions to boost business as it approaches a sixth year.
A boastful note states that this ant possesses the largest brain relative to body size in the ant kingdom, a claim highlighting its reputed intelligence.
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