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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1937
Page
8
The text notes the Missouri River runs 2.945 miles from source to the Mississippi and the Mississippi River runs 2.486 miles from its source to the Gulf of Mexico. It also mentions some lists treat the Mississippi Missouri river system as a single unit and list it as 4 22 miles long.
Plan and reports from Columbus Junction Iowa outline Rev C Riddington of Burlington speaking at the Ignitsa Center Baptist Church Tuesday evening. Local visits include Chicago guests Catherine Kern LeRoy and Mrs Nettie Brown from West Liberty. Community notes cover school orchestra member Shirley Lee McRoberts, May 27 meeting plans, farm bureau activities, and lawn landscaping efforts at the community building.
District Four notes Ed Vittetoe broke his wrist while cranking a tractor. Walter Gardner helps with farm work. Nearby residents and visitors are listed, including families visiting Johnsons, and school events like No. 4 closing with a picnic. Four-H clubs leader Robert H. Spry begins June 15.
Alexander Korda and Robert Flaherty present Elephant Boy at the Fox Theatre a vivid jungle adventure starring Sabu as Toomai with Kala Nag the largest elephant. The story follows the boy and his elephant guiding a hunt and capturing a herd in a dramatic climactic sequence.
OCR text shows a price scale for services including children's haircut 35¢, haircut 35¢, and shave 25¢ down to 20¢, indicating a cost adjustment to restore former year levels. The fragment hints at broader department-wide cost increases cited as justification. Names, dates, or places are not provided.
Riverside reports a 7:30 oclock mass at St Marys church next Sunday as 33 boys and girls enter solemn communion then attend a high mass and breakfast in St Marys hall. The class includes Leon Bulger Cecil Delaney Edward Dyna William Kallaug Kenneth Kinsey Elmo Kron Elmer Motz Omer Rummelhart Maynard Schneider Bernard Thomann Edwin Waldschmidt Alvin Vesey James Veggy and girls Dorothy Brophy Helen Colbert Marjorie Cole Betty Fesler Kathleen Knebel Aileen Kron Joanne Leeney Margaret Libeneuth Frances OConner Esta Pailliotet Mary Jane Quinn Elaine Rummelhart Dolores Dorothy Schnoebelen Rita Stransky Wilma Swenka Vera Thomann Teresa Waldschmidt.
Mrs Mary Chambers is visiting at the home of her son Millerd in Letts as of May 15 in Ainsworth Iowa.
Mrs. Nettie Griggs of Newton visited relatives Thursday evening. Mrs. Audra Pearson was a Washington visitor Friday morning. Creighton Edmondson of Iowa City attended the senior class play Thursday evening, having moved away years ago. Lillian Simpson is ill with appendicitis. Mrs. Edna Reabsam of Washington was a business visitor here Friday. Mrs. John Shook went to Burlington Thursday evening.
Hawaii National Park covers 118255 acres on the islands of Hawaii and Maui.
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