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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1930
Page
8
Ten years ago today Mr and Mrs Sherm Welch move to Columbus City. Our soda shop is ready with chairs and your favorite dish. If you plan spring painting visit our paint department. Floor enamel dries in four hours and is popular. Draceit Weather notes: cloudy to rainy, possible snow in south, colder. Hog prices 10 dollars.
Chronology recounts a spree of bank robberies and murders across Iowa in March. Notable cases include the Decorah Wanter case indictment, Des Moines killings, bank heists in Winterset Goodell Eagle Grove and Leeds, life-term sentences, and multiple suspects confessing or pleading self defense. Officers remark on new evidence and ongoing investigations.
Article traces Gypsy origins to northwestern India, notes migration via Persia and Syria into Europe, mentions multiple dialects and wide dispersion, discusses historic mislabels as Egyptians or Tartars, and reflects on European contact from the ninth century onward.
Chief Hopaleh Know writes a playful preface for a Dun on Pitch celebration held in Ford, England. He jokes about marriage probabilities and the worth of a life as he quips that if one deserves the flu, a sausage factory could compensate, reflecting a lighthearted tone.
A fragmentary note discusses a mythic marriage treaty involving sacrifices and wedding customs. It mentions a wig sacrifice, the bride eating the first slice of cake, and a pig shaped cake symbolizing property transfer. The text references Dunmow and medieval customs without complete clarity.
A cooperative life project formed by Haley and his wife drew stockholders for 200 acres to promote joint work and shared pay. The farm funded a school for children and drew notable supporters like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles A. Dana, John B. Dwight, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Theodore Parker, and Margaret Fuller. After initial enthusiasm faded due to financial losses, the scheme dissolved in 1817.
Peter Gassen, discussing ostentation, argues wealth is valued for its display. He cites a wedding breakfast where a man shows off an enormous diamond in his necktie, drawing no compliments as he adjusts it, and finally addresses the couple wishing their married life be as bright and pure.
A fragment recounts King of Portugal inviting a singer as guest and asking Tosini about the royal voice. The composer found it poor yet praised by a courtier saying Getty never heard better, reflecting a witty, scarcely sourced anecdote from a scrap Boule.
The article explains how watermarking arises from a dandy roll pressing design into the pulp. It states that the pressure creates thinner areas where the design contacts the paper, making the watermark visible when held to light.
A reflective note honors those who loved and aided a son, urging enduring remembrance on hearts rather than marble. The message emphasizes legacy through memory and action, inviting readers to leave a name where affection endures.
A brief note indicates the journal seeks advertising revenue and believes a trial period will prove beneficial. The message suggests ads are key to sustaining circulation and audience reach.
Local notes report Mrs Faris titled grandma after a baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Harold Faris in Chicago last Saturday night. Maynard Brown visits Des Moines on business while Mr and Mrs Paul Thomason of Harvey Iowa spent Sunday with the Arthur Redding family. Dr Charles Ro Brown of Yale Divinity School spoke before Chicago Sunday evening club. Word from Los Angeles says Hattie Chilcote is improving after a clot, not a stroke, and is expected to recover.
A clumsy local notes item lists many residents and visitors from Wellman Ottumwa and nearby areas. It mentions Miss Wilma Meintoen of Westman Iowa University as a Saturday night guest of Mary Louise Harwood and includes multiple shopping and visiting mentions around Wellman Wellston and Ottumwa. The piece also references a 1980 graduating class roster.
Mr and Mrs A C Polis visited Pleasant Plains on Sunday to visit friends Mrs Winnie Palmer and daughter Mariam traveled to Wellman and spent the day with the McClelland family Mariam will remain for the week at the parental home.
Items from the journal recount visits and trips of residents from Jesburg and Ottumwa to Des Moines Keota and West with family care tales. Ads note new neckties at Klein Klothi and Curlee Spring suits at Schmacher Bros. Teachers and births are listed along with a farm blaze that destroyed 240 chickens on the Miller farm.
President Hoover signed the Keyes-Eliott measure authorizing a 220 million dollar federal building appropriation. Funds will go to Washington, DC projects and to other sites nationwide as an unemployment relief aid.
In Hutchinson Kansas on March 31 a demon strator plane piloted by C R Moore burst into a tailspin and crashed after taking off to entertain a crowd. Moore, who had felt ill, was killed in the accident. Beer brewed in attic of prison noted in a fragment of the report.
A fragment from the Souls ille Courter Journal notes the present generation lacking a simple pleasure, describing a val et with a horseshoe wall as a blessing once common but now denied.
Weekend visitors include Mr and Mrs Clarence Saccett Mrs Archie Hesseltine and Vernon from Tama Iowa joining Donald Brown and sisters in law. Miss Carolyn McCleery to visit from Romeo Michigan for spring vacation. Roger Colthurst and children from Ainsworth shopped in town. Pearson farm home near Washington advances with a new nine room English style house replacing last winter’s burned structure. Earl Simpson leads tractor work on the project.
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