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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1938
Page
8
The piece argues many rely on medicine chest fixes while failing to treat the cause. It recommends increasing dietary bulk with Kellogg's All-Bran cereal, noting it aids bowel regularity, plus water intake and vitamin B. Kellogg in Battle Creek is cited as the maker.
Westchester May 26. Mrs Frank Yohe and son Frank Jr of Ottumwa with friend Mrs Godlove of Sigourney spent Thursday with Mrs Yohe's parents Mr and Mrs Fred Bauer. The five Hopkinson sisters long rooted in the community visited Bauer home and planned trips to Des Moines and Ainsworth. The reunion highlights local kin and school ties.
A $500000 Amelia Earhart memorial scholarship fund is launched with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt welcoming the foundation committee at the White House. Present were Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman Mrs. Henry A. Wallace wife of the secretary of agriculture and Mrs. James A. Davis chairwoman.
Romine of Fairfield and Glen's mother Mrs Inez Martin of Washington are named in this brief item. The report notes their connection or involvement within a local or familial context as read in the column.
May 26 Wellman notes report Helen Stricker visiting for summer vacation from Jewell Iowa with her parents. Local residents attend Kalona Flower Show events hosted by the Kalona Garden Club and other Wellman social visits include Steninger family members and trips to Iowa City and Lansing Michigan.
Tyrone residents and visitors share weekend visits and activities. Omar Crawford and sons visited Ray Hafferty near Wellman with Gus Bond escorting them home. George Crawford hosted Clyde Coble family and Eva Mae Legg of Cedar Rapids joined. Harold and Lloyd Reighard shear sheep nearby. Louis Tanner visited Otto Sheetz. Everette Fagen family shopped in Washington. Walter Sheetz and Caroline attended a high school band concert in Washington.
Crawfordsville May 26 attendees from local churches joined in a Washington Methodist church celebration marking 200 years of Methodism in the county. Relatives and friends celebrate the arrival of a 6½ lb daughter Phyllis Arlene born to Mr and Mrs Lyle Lowe on May 24.
Centerville board of education sets a June 15 special election to decide expenditure of 121000 dollars in insurance funds for the burned high school and a 110000 dollar federal grant request for a new building. No bond issue is proposed.
In Des Moines L. J. Dickinson of Algona Rep Lloyd Thurston Osceola and George A. Wilson of Des Moines spoke to 300 sixth district Republicans. Dickinson pressed for a clear cut new deal anti new deal campaign and Thurston said a Republican victory in November matters more than any individual office seeker.
The Ritz Brothers star in a hillbilly musical at the State Theatre with three new songs by Lew Pollack and Sidney Mitchell. Tony Martin and Marjorie Weaver perform, while a feuded mountaineer plot drives a radio broadcast and a rescued romance amid comic mayhem.
The film includes Slim Sum merville John Carradine Wally Vernon Berton Churchill and Eddie Collins in the cast. An emergency relief notice says Page county moves from state aid list under a new point system effective June 1 leaving only counties eligible for help next month.
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