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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1977
Page
4
A May 3 1977 editorial laments faded street markings in town and along highway 92 citing safety for unfamiliar drivers. It cites passages on love and brotherhood from scripture and an old proverb while urging priority for repainting lane lines and turn lanes at busy intersections.
Radio and TV ads push paradoxical outfits as The Word Game Now parodies style. An imagined man could wear suits described as spectacularly quiet yet silently loud, sedately loud, casually formal, or sloppily neat, a tonally warped critique of advertising. The piece satirizes marketing rhetoric.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes Iowa officials refused ISU’s petition to move the 1979 Iowa Iowa State football game to Ames. The board’s final no hardens attitudes in a stiff rivalry, despite ISU’s promise to keep profits stable. Fans mutter of pride and embarrassment as tensions rise.
A poem envisions the carefree canine life, then a reader letter questions tact and aging, reflecting on lifespan, purpose, and the idioms of aging veterans. The column compiles humorous verses, editor notes, and quips about service, listening, and marriage dynamics across a small-town paper.
The largest life insurance policy to date was issued in 1969 for $10.8 million on Michael Davis of Hollywood California then 34. He chaired a chain of sandwich stands and paid a annual premium of $92,200.
A 42-year-old mother writes of losing her home car health and mind after giving her two grown children everything. Abby and readers respond noting estate planning errors and urging financial security advice. Other letters comment on polite tolerance, compulsive letters to editors, and requests for Abby’s booklet.
The text surveys murder as the top crime theme in films and novels, notes a nine and a half mile average walk on a full flight between London and New York, questions picture ID on licenses, and shares trivia on Speenhamland, wigs, and privacy. It mentions weatherford, Texas mailing and a 1977 copyright.
A farm column notes intensified May workload at the seed plant as bean planting approaches. It highlights limited high quality soybean seed, direct-to-farm pricing, upcoming Czech trade team hosting in Iowa, and a new contract grower opening for about 20 acres of seed soybeans.
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