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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1949
Page
2
Local notice advertises a church fundraiser event titled Watch The For Sale Ads with a salad pie cake ice cream coffee and milk sale at 5 PM on Friday April 1. Prices range from 5 to 25 cents with average around 10 cents. Ode Oboe appears as a readable fragment.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Moore arrived home Monday evening from Tampa Florida where they spent the winter. They left Tampa March 1 and stopped in Cincinnati for a week with their son Dr Fred L. Moore Jr and family before returning. Mrs Richard Shalla and twins Sally and Sandra of Richmond visited Washington Tuesday with Mrs Shalla s former co workers at the court house.
Reports from the court house indicate twin babies captivated completely their mother s associates. Mrs Emil Hesselschwerdt and Mrs T V Knerr of Kalona were shoppers here Wednesday. Dick G McCleery, son of Mr and Mrs Richard H McCleery, returned today to College Springs Colo where he is a student at Colorado College after spending spring vacation here.
Finland has only three percent arable land yet sixty five percent of the population works in agriculture. Wood and wood products make up about ninety percent of exports, with potatoes and grains as the main agricultural products.
The game began around 1880 when British army officers in India reportedly piled books on a table to play. They used cotton batting balls and adapted tennis to a tabletop version. The term table tennis gained official status in 1926 with the formation of the International Table Tennis Federation.
A Scottish parliament opened in Edinburgh on January 1 1661 is nicknamed the Drunken Parliament for reputed near constant inebriation among its members.
The YWCA may sponsor a junior high girls ping pong tournament if enough interest is shown. Clydene Nicola has supervised after school play and would organize the event, with participants asked to sign up at the YWCA desk Friday or Tuesday afternoon.
Electrical scientists note uranium once led a dull life in odds and ends work such as coloring glass and china. They say it was discarded as a useless by-product of radium during World War I era developments in atomic energy.
A brief hospital bulletin reports Mrs Cloyce Hill was dismissed today. No additional medical details are provided in the fragment.
A Tuesday 7:30 PM organizational meeting at the YMCA gym invites all girls and women interested in softball. Discussion covers inter city YWCA league and traveling squads, with possible early instruction, and the first class targeted for April 12.
Jean Hotle and J Doyle, University students, host a new musical program Songs by Jimmy and Jean airing Wednesdays at 7 30 pm over WSUI Iowa City. Hotle, a Columbus high school 1947 graduate, and Doyle will present with regular university involvement.
A saloon keeper in New York kept a revolver after being assaulted for cutting beer to five cents. The attacker smashed a bottle, dumped $400 worth of whiskey, and wrecked the front window. Other bartenders report brewery opposition to price cuts.
The term corduroy traces to corded fabrics once made from silk and reserved for royal hunts in France. These refined textiles were tied to aristocratic sport and court life, illustrating how luxury material culture linked fashion to royal pastime.
Belgrade reports Russia and cominform satellites pulled ambassadors and ministers from Yugoslavia in a diplomatic boycott. The move followed last year's expulsion of Yugoslavia from the cominform and comes with Yugoslavia facing broader regional tensions and shifts in frontiers.
India is described as a land with a population three times the United States, where every person wears cotton fabric. The piece notes India as a major producer of jute and cotton, with 75 percent of jute grown in Pakistan and much cotton in the Indian Union and Pakistan, while most mills are in India.
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