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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1949
Page
6
Beauty contest winners are featured to portray a Boston society belle in An Old-Fashioned Girl opening Sunday at the Fox Theatre. The film adapts Louisa May Alcott’s immortal novel with a classic period setting.
Patchy clouds ease later. clearing tomorrow afternoon with little temperature change. Light winds remain.
Howard L. Wittring, chairman of the Washington county Agricultural Conservation committee, argues price supports reduce bankruptcy risk for farmers and stabilize production and farm income. He says supports help farmers weather weather, disease, and insect hazards while enabling ongoing soil and water conservation efforts. Marseilles is cited as the first port of France.
May Alcott author of Little Women is noted alongside Gloria Jean in the Eagle Lion release An Old Fashioned Girl. The film features a large ensemble including Jimmy Henry Aldrich Lydon John Hubbard and Frances Rafferty with Joseph Levinson as executive producer and Arthur Dreyfuss directing and producing.
The Washington Evening Journal in Washington Iowa lists staff roles including publishers Shannon Elder and editors Cowden Morris and W. J. Shannon. It notes publication afternoons except Sundays holidays and July 4th and provides subscription rates of 25 cents weekly by carrier and 12.60 dollars annually within Washington and Iowa.
The VW desk chronicles a tidy but cluttered top as girls guard purses watches and candies while in the pool. They preserve keepsakes from a tooth to a half-eaten apple and note pickle week humor. Virginia Knight and Sondra charm readers as they greet class signups and drafting roles.
English scientist J. D. Bernal argues two billion acres, less than half current cultivated, could feed everyone on earth with proper agricultural methods. He notes the potential exists if efficiency and techniques improve.
Washington junior college students travel by chartered bus to Crapo Park in Burlington for an all day picnic on Tuesday May 24 marking the close of the term.
Washington residents report on the Tulip Festival in Pella with praise for the event. Local updates include Charles Eyes tone heading to Ivan Norton’s East Polk Street home with tree cutting gear. Ernest Lemmon's 50th anniversary is celebrated by Eveready Plumbing & Heating in 1983 May.
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