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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1932
Page
4
Poem chronicles lonely stenographers and tired workers seeking support from soda clerks who offer brief kindness. It contrasts harsh realities of unattractive women with small daily mercies that lift morale, noting groans and glimpses of humanity in a city counter scene.
An upbeat reflection after a stock market crash and downturn. The speaker insists real life values remain intact while noting steady friendships neighborly greetings trusted business ties and continued affection from wife and daughters.
Roy L. Smith argues that true wealth lies in character, courage, and faith rather than money. He cites the resilience of spirit amid financial crises and laments the poverty of a life focused on material gain, praising religious values as lasting riches.
Daily note explains vocabulary practice with words like irascible and perpetuate. It defines ominous as portending foreboding evil and includes usage examples and guidance on misspellings and pronunciation.
A playful column recalls visitors from Des Moines sharing a balloon with a girl who buys candy with the money. The piece teases a hotel lobby, fashioning light jests about trade excursions and life insurance exams. It ends with grocery warnings about cellulose and canned beans.
In a reminiscence fragment the writer compares Curt to the Lindbergh kidnapper and murderer and asks what punishment fits. The passage shifts to a comic exchange about raisens and decoys with a grocer and a passerby. An absent minded professor narrates a frog dissection gag ending with a lunch embarrassment.
A playful reflection notes the cow and the girl share a quiet, thoughtful gaze, highlighting how the cow’s calm expression resembles human contemplation. The piece wryly asks how similarity arises from different beings.
The article notes Section I of the Constitution forbids granting nobility by the United States. It recalls that only Maryland’s colonial lord proprietor could grant titles before the Revolution, and no other American authority possessed or exercised such power.
Final certificates list 7th grade honorees Iola Dittmer Ruth Mayhew Nora Blick Catherine Beenblossom Rosa Beeson Mary Misel Rosella Patterson Betty Hamill Elizabeth Brown Bertha Reinart Frances Hays Lois Sartor Maurice Putnam Beverly Baker Kathryn Vacha Maxine Allen. Sixth grade winners Virginia Stutsman Martha Anne Mace Margaret Hyde. Improvement and progress pins awarded to numerous students across sixth and seventh grades with many named individuals and schools such as Wallace Lincoln Centennial Heights and more.
A quoted assertion argues nobility rests on merit education and virtue not blood. contrasts a noble line with a brute. It elevates human worth through character rather than ancestry, from a dialogue attributed to Michael le Faucheur.
A Des Moines woman writes of the death of C M Buchanan born 1854 in Ohio. He lived in Chicago Ellis Kansas Fairfield and Des Moines, worked as a traveling salesman and cheese broker, retired in 1914 due to failing sight. Survived by wife three daughters a son a grandson and a sister. Funeral services were held in Des Moines and Ellis. He is laid to rest beside his son Ross in Mount Hope cemetery.
C O Griffith and Clarence Jensen of San Diego are visiting Edd Stoutner. Friday marked the final school day with a play day at Valley as children participated.
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