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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1949
Page
5
A humorous meditation on trying to sleep as the mind wanders through counting animals, leaves, and memories. The narrator contemplates failure to sleep, recalling Wynken Brynken and Nod, a piano number, and finally a wakeful morning leading to dream land. Night noises and a piano play a role as the night drifts toward dawn.
A school event features a skit about sewing and home arts, a playful exchange about the world’s shape leads to a quip about a father, and a light hearted dialogue at a pretend store. A doctor patient exchange and a hospital visit for a newborn add to the day’s light notes.
Crescent Oak Grove and Union Dale schools held a joint Riverside picnic on Sunday. A newborn Steven Ward, seven pounds nine ounces, arrived May 2 at Mercy hospital in Iowa City to Donald and Class Cerny’s family.
Mr and Mrs Hal Figgins and Mrs C A Neville visited Des Moines and Pella for a tulip festival noted for about 1 million blooms The best display was on a plot donated by the Netherlands honoring wartime kindness Other items include dinners visits and birthdays among local residents and residents returning from Fairfield hospital Washington Iowa news brief
A Navy board of inquiry investigates the gunshot death of Commander Everett O. Rigsbee Jr. 41 skipper of the carrier Antietam whose body was found in his cabin at Hunter's Point Navy Yard San Francisco California He was born in Texas and photographed in 1936 at his second marriage.
Community items include the 32nd wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs James H Allen on May 21 in Columbus Junction. Local visits feature Mrs Mae Johnston returning from a three weeks trip to New Mexico, families gathering from Kalona and Osceola, and notes on church and school activities plus a tax sale notice for property in Washington Iowa with redemption details.
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