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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1936
Page
8
The British statesman W. E. Gladstone in a August Liverpool speech rejected exaggerated atrocity tales about Armenian massacres. He asserted that photographs proving the carnage demonstrated that the camera never lies.
Ten years ago today Smith W Brookhart, Republican nominee hopeful for the United States Senate, planned to deliver seven speeches in Black Hawk County on Monday.
Kodak kilns developed and printed 25 cents per roll with a fade resistant guarantee. George L. Medantel Druggist offers film and Kodak work with weather notes listing fair tonight and Saturday and a warmer trend. Ton on hogs priced at 10.15 dollars.
East Sunset May 28 report notes Mrs Linn Felice of Scotts Bluff Nebraska visiting daughter Mrs Earl Ferguson for the summer. Also mentions Ira Owens called to Mt Pleasant hospital with brother Price Owens ill from quinsy and various local visits and community events.
Tyrone May 28 Mr and Mrs Walter Sheets and daughter Caroline attended baccalaureate in Washington. American Legionaires from Keotu decorated Tyrone cemetery. Raymond Rains from near Dublin visiting friends Barrel Sheets and Charles Bond. Washington shoppers include Mrs George Bond and Charles Nadene. Keota shoppers Ev erette Fagen and daughter. Mrs Josephine Singmaster and Mrs Fred Sheetz. The George Bond family visited Ray Hains near Dublin.
Mrs Frances Dyer of Grover Colorado filed an alienation of affections suit against a local school teacher for 12500. She cited the mayoral duties as a handicap in maintaining her marriage and alleged the teacher caused the breakup of the Dyer home.
Women of the Dorcas society of the Mennonite church hosted the Eicher church’s women’s missionary group in Wayland on May 29 with seventy two attendees. The program included welcome remarks, scripture readings, music, talks on missions, and a social hour with refreshments, followed by committee acknowledgments.
Archaeologists report most Stone Age tools were made for left handed people. The finding highlights adaptation in early human society and suggests handedness influenced tool design.
A concise definition explains absolute pitch as the ability to identify any heard musical tone and to match a named tone by voice without using an instrument.
Crawford district notices report Kempf bought a Terra plane in Davenport and a community picnic honoring visitors from Oregon. Residents attend dinners and visits at various homes while neighbor John Hultquist dies of heart trouble. Regular business calls and illness updates round out the local updates from Wayland and Mt. Pleasant areas.
The number of wild flowering plant species in the United States and Canada is estimated to exceed 19 000. The figure highlights vast botanical diversity in North America.
The Fleet Center of Shipping New England led as the first center of shipping in America with New Amsterdam later named New York close behind. By 1700 Boston had 194 ships while New York totaled 124 ships.
A wedding tradition of guests taking cake home for luck is echoed by the Chua cho Indians of Peru where guests carry home fragments of pottery broken by the chief during the ceremony. The belief holds that these shattered pieces bring good fortune to the bearer.
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