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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1975
Page
3
A personal meditation from May 15 1975 recalls the Lord's Prayer and a tiny spider rescued from the wash basin. The piece contrasts fear of spiders with admiration for their quiet industry and benefits in pest control, noting outdoor orb weavers, dew sparkling webs, and a brief fear of bats.
A humor column argues for adapting speech to a looming New Ice Age by trimming words and altering names to reduce tongue exposure. It playfully suggests calling igloos and mucklucks instead of house and shoe, and renaming cities and even personal names to easier pronunciations.
DELITE offers a collection of humorous and thoughtful graduation lines for 1975 graduates. It blends wit with life lessons about patience effort and perspective, urging self reflection and steady striving rather than reckless shortcuts.
Excerpt from Dear Abby columns includes letters from Bill in Wellsville and Nadine Ledbetter about lateness in relationships and a discussion on weddings. Readers debate dogs attacking poultry and living together prior to marriage, with Abby offering advice and to request Abby’s booklet.
South, a skilled psychologist at the bridge table, faces West's king of spades opening lead. He deduces that if West holds the king of diamonds the contract would be ice cold, highlighting the mental side of the game and the deceptive tactics players use.
South uses a jack of spades against the king to trap West and mislead about the ace of spades. West continues with the queen, forcing East to hold three small spades. The diamond finesse fails but East exits spades, allowing South to take four notrump.
A collage of curiosities and quips by L. M. Boyd including a myth about Milo of Crotona lifting a bull, Willy Brandt’s birth name, zodiac musings on Geminis, client queries with answers on corn in the Bible and taxes on racetrack winnings, parthenogenesis in turkeys, the Kentucky rifle’s origin, redundancies in language, and a note on studies showing half of prescribed medicines go unused.
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