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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1948
Page
5
Riverside welcomes Edwin Speakman his wife and their 2 year old son David arriving with his enrollment at Iowa State University. The veteran husband settles into student life as the family makes a new home in town.
The article details a British W A F veteran wife from Leeds who traveled to Clinton Iowa with stories of England and America. It notes her arrival date, accent, and impressions of U S shoppers. It also lists local visitors and social club gatherings involving Riverside residents and families, with plans for future club events.
Dr Leonardo Keeler introduces a lie detector used in the Twentieth Century Fox film Call Northside 777 starring James Stewart at the State Theatre. The device is shown on Richard Conte at Stateville Penitentiary, with Keeler claiming the test is over 99 percent accurate.
The article notes that America’s first paper mill was built in Germantown Pennsylvania in 1690. It cites the Encylopedia Britannica as the source for this historical claim.
The Rotary club enjoyed a musical afternoon with three high school students. Patricia Thompson played bassoon with Mrs. Marjorie Phillips at piano, Pat Weldin performed flute numbers with Biddy Johnson at piano, and Ralph Bauer reported on a Rotary district conference in Des Moines. Visitors included Carl Anderson from Katona, John Applegate formerly of the local club, and H A Shannon from Lees Summit. April birthdays listed followed by May birthdays.
A troubled blonde and a mischievous young man spark a series of adventures as a police detective guardian tries to intervene. Kent Taylor and Peggy Knudsen star in the Sol M. Wurtzel mystery released by Twentieth Century Fox and directed by William F. Claxton.
Giant Alsatian Shepherd Grey Shadow, featured with father Smoky in Monogram’s Sign of the Wolf, stars in a Jack London thriller at the Fox Theatre. At 110 pounds he is touted as the largest of his breed ever to appear in films, a direct descendant of Strongheart.
Brighton receives notice of Leo Bureker age 74 passing away Thursday April 29 at his home in Petaluma California. Born in Germany he moved to town with his parents at age eight and grew up on a farm southwest of Brighton before moving to California at 22. Survived by his wife and two brothers Joe of Fairfield and Ired of California and two sisters Mrs Walter Kurtz and Mrs Elizabeth Shms of Ottumwa.
The passage lists Delaware’s motto Liberty and Independence the peach blossom as state flower and the blue hen as state bird. It identifies symbols tied to Delaware’s identity without additional context or events.
May 4 marks birthdays for Mrs. George Jarrard Lawrence Wilson Dovie Brown and Mrs Katherine Roper. Dale Statler and his sister Mrs Lloyd Polson celebrate today. Also observing birthdays today are Mrs Roy Steele and Robert.
Robert Owen Clark and Charles Eugene McAvoy are noted alongside Mary Kathleen Stephens daughter of Mr and Mrs Gene Stephens near Ainsworth Judith Merrit Tebockhorst observes her fourth birthday and George William Jigger McDaniel son of Mr and Mrs Merritt McDaniel turns six in local notices with families named.
Miriam Davis of Rock Island spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Newton Davis and attended the wedding of her friend Carolyn Whitsell to Dr John Stuhler at the Methodist church.
The Longer home hosted several visitors including Dr. D. D. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. John McAvoy and Carolyn of Rock Island Illinois. Sunday guests included Mrs. Dave Springman and Patsy, Alvin Shebeck and family, Joan and Gary Lee, Fred Kephart and daughter Karen.
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