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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1949
Page
2
Lewis Goodlander entered University hospital in Iowa City for several days of tests and treatment. He is staying in room W 327.
Margaret Turkington, staying in Winfield, fractured a pelvic bone while washing windows and is at Mt. Pleasant county hospital. Orval Caldwell near Batavia, thrown from a tractor, broke his right hand and suffered a severe head wound but is progressing. Caldwell’s son Bill, employed in Burlington, took a leave to help on the farm.
Classifieds section announces a coded prompt about a controlled congress with a dramatic warning. It presents a terse, sensational line aimed at grabbing attention and prompting reader action. No clear event or person details are provided in the legible text.
The Prairie Flower Baptist church hosts a Sudan Interior Mission conference from May 8 to May 15. Speakers include Rev. Harold B. Street and Rev. Raymond J. Davis, with Moody Institute of Science motion pictures shown each evening directed by Erwin A. Moon.
It opens Sunday morning with sessions led by Mr and Mrs Davis during Sunday school and morning worship and continues in the afternoon with young people programs at 6 30 and a 7 30 motion picture Satanic Slaves. Week's conference sessions run daily at 1 30 and 8 00 p m and end with services on Sunday May 15. Other films include Captive Daughters Islam Bows Broken Bodies The Hope of Tomorrow Liberty to Captives and Sir I Have No Man.
H L Chaney removed boards and grass from an old well in Estherville on Wednesday and filled the hole with rock. Mrs Chaney broke through the boards while hanging laundry on Monday. The Chaneys recently moved to the area and have a 14 month old son.
Early American railroads operated trains by day to avoid hazards such as fallen trees rock slides roaming cattle and buffalo tribes and outlaws.
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