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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1930
Page
4
Lindbergh advocates practical flying over stunts while acknowledging their role in aviation’s growth. He notes many stunt fliers were heroes and some sacrificed lives to test planes. He predicts pilots will favor practical flights with intermediary stops and refueling over long nonstop journeys.
The Masonic group accelerates plans for a new lodge building aiming for completion by early fall. The campaign won broad support with many neighbors guaranteeing the erection, turning a slow start into a thriving project and a town landmark.
Muscatine residents study a proposed hydro electric dam on the Cedar River with land purchases and a backing water area. The project aims to outsize Keokuk and power a large Iowa territory, signaling broader use of water power nationwide and future home electricity access.
The Iowa News notes higher prosperity as tax returns show 26 617 filings by March 31 1930 up from 25 515 a year earlier an increase of 1 202 despite tax cuts. Total payments reached 3 625 280 91 down 314 000 from 1929. Farmers filed more farm returns and stock losses were minimal, indicating broader income growth.
A fragment reports that the “big fel” incident involved a major theft or seizure of sizable items. Details are incomplete but the tone implies a sensational burglary or heist claim.
The piece mocks stock speculators who lost heavily in a market crash and notes that many of the wealthy can endure it. It asserts stocks will normalize but warns the sector has lost credit and will not be seen as safe again soon amid recent extreme swings both up and down.
A government statement defends prohibition, arguing failures are exaggerated while noting reduced sea smuggling, land smuggling, and diversion of industrial and medicinal alcohol. It highlights rising savings, home building, and living standards, with calls to improve enforcement and police effort rather than dwell on past errors.
A collage of humorous quotes and trivia from various papers. Mentions of the All American football team with players named Nagurski and Carideo, plus light observations on wealth, aging, health, and society.ends with fashion notes from Paris about tighter waists.
A collection of light anecdotes and quips from By The Way and The Log style columns. The items joke about peas versus creamed peas, eating habits, weather, May to June transitions, and social gaffes. Included are pithy one liners about women drivers and editors aging under the strain of jokes.
A humorous note from the Ohio State Journal quips about an eminent scientist who supposedly says men have a keener sense of smell than women. The joke recalls being awakened at three in the morning to check what was burning, only to find nothing.
Mrs. Howard J. Vrooman received by mail all her $10,000 worth diamonds and jewelry a year after a burglary when three bandits robbed her and her daughter as they entered their home. Police linked the caper to a band of roadhouse thieves amid a divorce driven financial strain.
In Newark New Jersey a petition to adopt by the maternal grandparents would make twelve year old Harry R Tryborn legally brother to his mother and uncle to his own father while his father Henry A Tryborn seeks adoption of his son. The boy is already his father's brother. the paternal grandmother Augusta Tryborn once cared for him before dying leaving $10 000 to her two sons. The Ready grandparents of Boston have filed for adoption and both petitions are pending.
William H. Rutt will be buried after funeral services at his late home at 1 PM and at 2 PM at the Evangelical church in Cairo. The Rev. Roths of Alburnette and Rev. W. A. Lamp will conduct the rites. Burial is planned in Cairo cemetery.
The Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey hosts tablets busts and statues honoring poets actors divines and other eminent men. Most memorials commemorate English figures in this historic east side space of the south transept.
The author promotes allowing children to enjoy playful humor to bolster spirits, physical strength, and overall health rather than restricting their laughter. Strong emphasis on natural development through lighthearted behavior attributed to Locke.
The text states that morphine was first isolated in 1816 by Ser Turner, a chemist from Hanover, Germany. This marks the early chemical isolation of morphine by a German chemist in that year.
J D HamIl announces for the Board of Supervisor for the term starting January 1 1931 subject to Republican voters wishes. Announcement appears in the 21st Tuesday and Friday edition.
Subject to the will of Republican voters in the June primaries, a candidate runs for the office of County Sheriff.
The Jacobean period spanning 1602 to 1688 favored oak and walnut for furniture with mahogany being rare. Walnut was the more popular wood among makers and buyers of the era.
A renowned teacher at Pem broke College Oxford praised Samuel Johnson as a freshman of extraordinary attainments noting his early genius while he studied there.
A large framed picture of Picard's Horses fell on a grandmotherly woman named ABE MARTIN as a bus passed by her home. The accident left her severely cut about the face and underscored how a divided home can influence a child’s upbringing.
Agriculture department agents battle a rat plague spreading through Jalisco and Michoacan as farmers appeal for help. Massive traps stretch half a kilometer and a single night yields about 50 000 rats captured in Jalisco.
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