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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1938
Page
5
In Hollywood wealthy English squire Harry Clifton told Rev. Mrs. Violet Greener alias the Ghost of Hollywood how he lost 150000 dollars in a single poker hand. He explained the check for 150000 dollars to Lew Ice, brother of comedian Fannie Brice, was to cover a gambling debt and was stopped at her urging.
A Plymouth scene shows Pep the spotted toy fox terrier nursing and caring for seven one week old skunks after their mother was killed. Pep feeds, washes, and protects the orphans, adopting them despite no birth.
Albert Reamer, a Pennsylvania farmer near Saxonburg, observes a mixed breed hen building a nest in a hollow crabapple tree and hatching 10 eggs. His son points to the high nest as the unusual site of incubation.
A grand Potsdam wedding unites the grandson of former Kaiser Wilhelm with the daughter of Duke Cyril. Four ex-kaiser sons Adalbert Wilhelm Eitel Friederich and Oscar attend as medals are revived from moth balls for the event.
Getulio Vargas Jr., son of Brazil’s president and a Johns Hopkins student in Baltimore, reads a report on the Fascist revolt and the siege of the palace that ended with loyal troops rescuing the family.
A Collier's Weekly writer notes that only three AKC recognized breeds originated in the United States. The Chesapeake Bay retriever registered 1878, the American fox hound registered 1886, and the Boston terrier registered 1893.
The article notes a fish known by as many as 40 names across states, listing examples such as large- mouthed bass green bass chub trout Welshman cow bass rock bass yellow bass white bass white salmon and white trout. It then details William Penn’s two marriages first to Gulielma Maria Springett in England who died in 1694 and second to Hannah Callowhill on March 5 1695.
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