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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1944
Page
3
The passage names Simon the Canaanite and Judas Iscariot among twelve chosen nationalists. It asserts a belief that liberation of one people requires liberating all, framing universal truth as abstract for some. Bible reference Matthew 10:4 is cited.
A reader recalls a frustrating Rock Island Rocket attempt to Iowa City then Washington amid crowded trains at La Salle Station. Vivid sketches include sailors, inductees, travelers with families, and a Marine wife en route to San Diego, highlighting patience, delays, and the promise of postwar improvements.
The piece sketches a crowded street humor scene with a stool, a piano to be moved, a waitress and a cleaner. A street remark suggests someone profits in the stock market while another clarifies a simple cleaning job along the curb.
A quirky list of WWII era army slang terms with humorous definitions such as iron horse for tank hay burners for cavalry and pineapple for hand grenade. The note ends with a curious line about a Private Secretary and her employer.
The 1862 incident shows President Lincoln chiding General George B. McClellan over inaction by asking to borrow the army. The quote reads My Dear McClellan If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while Yours respectfully A Lincoln.
A reflective passage on education equating true learning with inner balance. It argues that education yields the ability to face the universe with clarity and faith, to form and maintain friendships, and most of all to be at peace with oneself even in solitude and hardship.
Paramount comedy stars Fred MacMurray and Paulette Goddard as a butler and cook in Washington in a fast paced satire. Roland Young and director Sidney Lanfield anchor a broad farce with a major technicolor musical and Pathe News.
Brighton May 19 Mr and Mrs Ira Saunders purchased the C B Brier property. Pleasant Valley Farm Bureau club met at Mrs B V Galbrys home with officers elected for the year: President Mrs Harry Bagby vice president Mrs Martha Kasowsky secretary treasurer Mrs Verle Porter. A Mother's Day program featured origin readings and songs.
A MGM stage reproduces a German prison camp for the film The Cross of Lorraine. Jean Pierre Aumont stars with Gene Kelly Sir Cedric Hardwicke Richard Whorf Joseph Calleia Hume Cronyn and Peter Lorre in the all male drama about French soldiers held by the Nazis.
A fragment discusses egg protection by a film to keep bacteria out and advises wiping dirty spots without scrubbing away life. It then shifts to a poetic meditation on seeing humanity in hardship, and learning to live, love, hope, and pray to face death with courage.
White Oak school closed for a noon picnic dinner furnished by the teacher. Mrs. Doris Johnson of Fairfield slated to teach next year. Lloyd Luers Jr. is the sole eighth grade graduate.
Orlena Augustine completes a successful teaching year at Shiloh school and plans to teach again next year. Mrs. Wanda Bariz and Bonnie Jean, Rolla Gardner, visited with Mrs. Fred Waltman for Mother's Day. Jake Hendrickson delivered a corn planter to Ralph Beliel. Vivian and Dean Luers attend Daily Vacation Bible School at New Haven church with over fifty children enrolled. Clifford Leeper breaks collar bone in a fall last week.
The article traces the emergence of modern military nursing beginning in the Crimean War and its impact on care for wounded soldiers. It notes pivotal figures and evolving roles within military medical services.
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