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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1947
Page
6
Flute soloist Maxine Allen earned an excellent rating at the state music festival held in Iowa City. Adr Lee YY provided the notable performance, highlighting strong artistry and technical skill.
A note suggests a thoughtful Mother’s Day gift a perfume or cologne. It highlights the idea of celebrating mothers with a fragrance choice.
The notice lists hog market top at 25.00 dollars with fair weather tonight. Tomorrow予 partly cloudy skies and a milder coolness ahead.
Elizabeth Dawson was installed regent of Washington chapter D A R at yesterday's meeting with Jessie B. Stewart presiding. Other officers were installed and 22 members attended as plans formed for Grave decorating on Memorial Day and a joint luncheon with Fairfield chapter.
A 20-year-old bearded healer known as Avak the Great promises to cure Vaughn Arakelian, a 27 year old paralytic patient, after drawing hundreds seeking cures in Palm Springs. Arakelian’s father Krikor has spent 300000 on doctors without relief. Avak plans three months at the Arakelian desert resort to establish the mecca and claims past cures.
May 7 Ainsworth reports appointed committees for the alumni banquet to be held Friday evening May 16. Invitation volunteers include Mildred Pressly Hazel Hunt Virginia Beenblos som Vera Simpson. Program members are Norbert Norris Edith Megdelsen Simpson Bob Koehler John Walker. Decoration team lists Edith Trotter Myrtle Thomas Grace Kaufman Madge Rabenold Nora Spessard Lillian Simpson. Nominating Lee Hunt Ella Crawford Initiation Fred Pfiefer Roy Pulse Dale Richards. Also notes social updates and local donations to the cancer fund reach 293 dollars with a 100 dollar gift and three 25 dollar gifts.
At the hospital Mr and Mrs Wayre Wolfe of 1400 N Fourth Ave welcomed a son at 136 yesterday afternoon. Admitted yesterday were John Godwin of 15 N Ave B medical and Mrs William Vinton of 1038 N Seventh Ave surgical. Catherine Crone of 814 W Monroe St had a tonsillectomy. Today Charles Brown of 609 N Iawa Ave is admitted medical. A social hour with refreshments was held by the hostess.
Rotary club heard life histories from new members including Guy Cole born in a Sac County log cabin and Irvin Whitam a native Iowan who served in the navy. Wayne Marston, also born in Iowa, described a career in retail and service culminating as manager of the Washington Skeltas Service. The narratives highlighted early schooling, work, marriage, and family details.
Iowa State College business manager disclosed bids for a proposed 134 apartment unit far exceed earlier estimates by about 250000 dollars. Low general construction bid 847500, low electrical 838357, and low plumbing 223320. The total would exceed 868000, double prewar figures, with board delaying action until protests at Iowa City.
Mr and Mrs Orville Unzicker hosted dinner yesterday with Mr and Mrs Martin Ephriam and Mr and Mrs Al Barnes. Ephriam family moved from Chicago to 802 N Marion Ave. Barnes plan to move from Ottumwa later. Vernon Richardson family welcomed a nine pound son Jay Brian born April 28 at St Luke s Cedar Rapids. Alert Weir and wife at Worrell hospital Rochester Minnesota she a patient in room 120. They traveled there last week for Mrs Wehr to undergo Monday s meeting.
Medical note records Mr and Mrs J D Rowell of Lubbock Texas arriving Sunday to spend two weeks with Mrs Ives McKay and Iowa City kin. Also noted is the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs James Arbogast Coppock weighing ten and a half pounds at 2 pm yesterday. The article mentions Philadelphia as the capital under three governments per Encyclopaedia Britannica.
An article notes milk production in the United States could fill a vast river nearly 3,000 miles long 40 feet wide and 3 feet deep. The piece emphasizes scale and agricultural productivity.
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