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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1932
Page
4
A Mother's Love Reflects God and Grace
Grace Noll Crowell writes on the sacred bond of motherhood. A mother's love, tenderness, and guiding touch echo divine care, underscoring how children are kept safe and strengthened by a mother's faith and strength across the years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Grace Noll Crowell
Pittsburgh Kansas Rebuffs 6000 Dollar Post Office Door
Ed Hammer relays a Kansas City clipping about Pittsburgh Kansas rejecting a federal 6000 dollar post office door repair plan. Officials canceled the lobby and derols scheme after a local contractor offered a cheaper fix, highlighting distrust of big public works costs and cost plus policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Hammer
Kansas City
Pittsburgh
Kansas
Derols
War Time Costs Mount in Cost Plus System
The discussion criticizes the cost plus contracts used during the war as expanding expenses. It argues that manufacturers builders or promoters favor such arrangements, yielding rising costs automatically and naturally as the program continues.
Two Strange Stories From World War Doctor recounts and priest faces gas tolls
Dr Dennis Crile told of a France service incident where a slightly wounded soldier fought to breathe as four privates held him on a stretcher, only to reveal he was near death from airway obstruction. Father O Donnell recalls a dead officer killed by a shell fragment that snapped his neck while helmet safety saved his face.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Crile
Tri-County
France
Clile
Atd
Father O'Donnell
Daily English Lesson Harbinger and Misused Phrases
A vocabulary note presents the word harbinger defined as a fore runner and urges using it to signal prosperity. It contrasts acceptable phrasing like rather pale with looked kind of pale and explains mispronunciation of palatial.
Floor Walker’s Club forms humorous fatherhood emblem
The By the-way department promotes a new club called the Floor Walker’s Club for newly became fathers. The emblem is a safety pin mounted on a white square, presented as the sign of pride and joy for papas in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
FL. W. C
Floor Walker's Club
Call for Names of New Fathers in Our Community
Readers are urged to report men in the community who have just attained the title of Papa for the first time. Nominations are requested with honors to be conferred by the order. The first nominated will become the King-pin of the F. W. C.s and receive special attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papa
Bridget Observers Derinetion Of Big Head
A fragment from a humor column notes Bridget as observer of vanity, defines big headedness as constant boasting, and comments that entertaining a child now costs more than educating a father once did. It also includes quips about a mouse in water and jokes on economy and modern life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha
Last-line contest judged for rhythmic depth and thought
Tonight at 8 the final line contest closes and judges will assess entries for rhythm and depth. A large stack of verses awaits evaluation with a winner to be announced early next week.
Beast of the City opens at Fox with city underworld tale
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a dramatic city life story of law versus crime. Walter Huston leads a large cast including Jean Harlow and Jean Hersholt in a plot about police effort against political machines and organized crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Fox Theater
Walter Huston
Jean Harlow
Wallace Ford
Jean Hersholt
W. R. Burnett
Charles Brabin
Secret
The Wet Parade Opens at State Theater Amid Drama
MGM's The Wet Parade debuts Monday at the State Theater as a timely dramatic epic spanning pre war, war years, and modern crime era. The film foregrounds racketeers crime waves and political corruption while centering on a powerful love story amid sensational events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Washington State Bank gains authority to transact in Iowa
The Washington State Bank of Washington Iowa receives official authorization to transact as a state bank after proof of compliance and capital, with a first board of directors led by G N Barclay and others. The certificate is signed by Superintendent L A Andrew in Des Moines on April 15 1932.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Town
Washington State Bank
Washington
Iowa
G. N. Barclay
W. L. Alcosn
Ernest Knotek
F. Davis
John F. Foster
T. C. Reeves
Geo. L McDaniel
Des Moines
L. A. Andrew
Crawfordsville Patch Tie Ends Dark Kitten Ball Game
Wy man and Crawfordsville played to a 4 4 tie as darkness halted play. Carl Stites finished second in the 100 yard dash and the 20 yard dash at Washington track meet. Cleo Fletcher placed third in the 20 yard dash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Wyman
Carl Stites
Cleo Fletcher
Washington
Carl
Cleo
Real test of courtesy in emergencies
It is during the hardest moments to show courtesy that the virtue is most needed and tested. The remark suggests that true civility is proven in crisis and under pressure.
Family mushroom mystery from a stray line poem
A fragmentary note recalls a family searching for mushrooms and returning to find their vacant lot neighbor with a dozen mushrooms. The son Bobby Bostwick is named in a casual asides, while other lines joke about golf, night shirts, and a personal cryptic reference to crackers.
Election officers named for June 6 Washington County
The board of Supervisors lists election officers for the June 6 primary across townships Cedar Two Clay Township Crawford Two Dutch Creek Two English River Two Kalona Richmond Marion Franklin Two Highland Two Iowa Two Jackson Lime Creek Two Oregon Two Seventy-Six Two Washington City First Ward Second Ward and Third Ward with receiving counting boards and clerks named for each precinct including judges such as W Farrier J W Dunbar Karl Smith O C Patterson Arthur Pepper Wes Bohme and Florence Patterson among others and noting specific precincts and clerk assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Washington County
Brighton
W. Farrier
W. S. Courtney
J. W. Dunbar
Joseph Neenike
R. CC. Speilman
D. H. Mentworth
Harry Kyle
Ben Stout
J. W. Jones
S. M. Graves
Cedar Two
Karl Smith
Clay Township
Arthur Pepper
Wilbur B. Day
W. H. Snider
L. B. Luithly
John MecClintic
C. E. Morgan
Max Waterhouse
Raymond Fritz
J. M. Stone
Max Medicille
Crawford Two
J. D. Hamil
M. N. White
Emery Leichty
E. L. Davis
Emerson Wittiig
V. D. Hochstadler
Frank Swartzendruber
Wes Bohme
Edith Fry
J. S. Kauffman
Mary Hofer
Hazel Dean
Washington City
First Ward
J. H Squire
Florence Patterson
J. M Kelly
Allie Rownd
Augusta Luithly
J. C. Bauer
Richard McCleery
Celesta Maria
Helen Goodwin
Helen Kelley
Second Ward
Geo Pauls
William Kos
N. A. Nagley
Clyde Putnam Maynard Brown
Er. G. Fox
Don Applegate
J. J. MekKeone
Riverside Public Schools Services and Commencement Week
Riverside Iowa May 7 The first feature of the commencement week is a class sermon at the Methodist church May 8 with processional solos and quartettes and Rev W N Crozier as speaker The commencement program May 13 at the M B church includes processional invocation address diplomas and benediction Other dates May 18 school program and exhibit and May 19 the school picnic
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
Iowa
Riverside Public School
Methodist Church
Margaret Jane Qiftin
Faith of Our Fathers
W. N. Crozier
A. H. Younkin
Floyd Steele
C. E. Fitzsimmons
John Younkin
C. S. Coggeshall
Ray Marner
W. W. Weatherwax
Cedar Rapids
Edith Price
Board of Education
C. BE. Coggeshall
Cal Coolidge Fish Camp Gaffe Sets Comic Spring Tone
A Hollywood image satirizes Calvin Coolidge fishing in a creek as spring arrives late. The cartoon humorously recalls his earlier political restraint and contrasts it with Hoover era headlines, noting the calm humor in his grin despite the fishless moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Cal
Calvin Coolidge
America
Washington
United States
Herbert Hoover
Local Election Officials and Clerks Listed in Detail
The records enumerate election personnel including clerks such as W. S. Eldridge Ida M Hayes Myrtle Speer and Carl N Phillips. Receiving board judges named M C Smylie Martin Westen and Al Crone. Counting boards and other officials appear with W J Crozier Charlie Kennedy G G Crosby and Neil H Trotman Walter Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. S. Eldridge
Ida M. Hayes
Jeanette Mcklhinney
W. J H. Stephens
W. D. Booth
Myrtle Speer
R. Sage
M. C. Smylie
Martin Westen
al. Crone
Carl N. Phillips
Chas. Wim. Jackson
W. J. Crozier
Charlie Kennedy
G. G. Crosby
Neil H. Trotman
Walter Brown
Roosevelt foes gloated as California upset reshapes race
Washington reports show John Garner defeated Franklin D Roosevelt in California by about 45 000 with Alfred E Smith third. Roosevelt faces mounting defeats in Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut and California eroding his Chicago convention bid and fueling talk he may be stopped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
California
John N. Garner
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Garner
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Smith
Chicago
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Tri County Meet of Ministers Set for Monday
The Louisa county ministerial association invites Muscatine and Washington county ministers to a joint meeting at Columbus Junction Methodist Church Monday May 4 starting at 10 a m. Rev E J Shook and Rev Jonab R Fraser will speak on religious reform education in moral reform and theology recovery with general discussions to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa County Ministerial Association
Muscatine
Washington County
Columbus Junction
Methodist Church
W. H. Parker
Louisa County Association
E. J. Shook
Ainsworth
Jonab R. Fraser
Wapello
Vernon L. Shantz
M. H., Dougherty
Shontz
Dougherty
Morning Sun
Primitive fears of the new and unfamiliar
An old observation notes that the greatest terror for primitive people is the panic caused by anything new or unfamiliar. The remark frames fear as a basic reaction to change and novelty in early human societies.
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