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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1947
Page
3
The page presents opinion items and letters touching on postwar issues. Notes on labor conflict, meat and potato meals, food surplus destruction, and atomic energy leader David Lilienthal are interwoven with civic reflections and reader letters. The column cites desire for open atomic knowledge and cautious government control, plus local agricultural and economic concerns.
A call to remember war dead opens the piece, noting refurbishing at the County Honor Roll on North Marion avenue with fresh paint and bright red geraniums. It cites about 2200 names from wartime and shares a wartime anecdote about a father and mother ages. A local businessman is seen in a coonskin cap in cold weather, drawing a light note on the town scene.
A Czech-Slovak wedding tale explains the unveiling at midnight and the apron as a maker’s badge of service. The piece notes a husband marketing groceries during his wife’s illness and ponders men’s roles in the home.
A cash and carry tale notes wives receiving five spots to spend then returning with collars worth of food and two dollars for beauty and confectioner shops. The three ecards are Three of Spades Four of Spades and Four of Hearts.
Riverside reports the St Marys Junior-Senior banquet in the school hall with class hosts and hostesses, decorations, and speeches honoring graduates and parents. Also, the Willing Workers club sewing for donations, visits to and from area residents, and family news from Riverside and nearby towns.
Cooney in white robes urged the St Marys spirit and urged seniors to keep their ideals. They lighted tapers at the Our Lady altar as Marys hymn drifted through the hall. God Be With You closed the ceremony with the 1947 class listing including Edward Brophy and others. Louis Gase served as hostmaster.
The notice notes the birth of a first grandchild to Mrs Josie Snyder of Riverside, highlighting the new family addition without extra details.
Crawfordsville reports Mrs J A Raymond notes May events as Vir and Mrs Floyd Nelson of Winfield, Mrs Kenneth Cherry Holmes and Cleo Dean attend Indianola commencement. Mable Anderson returns from George Iowa to teach next year. Joyce Gault home from Cedar Falls as a State Teachers college student. Clover Leaf 4 H club held a rooming contest and named Lucille Gault to Rally Day and Nancilee Anderson to district camp near Burlington June 10-12.
Westminister notes Ted Griffith after West Chester high school graduation works at Marion Augustine farm. Mrs Rose Kiesey of Washington visited Ted Kiesey home. Mr and Mrs Robert Eckels enjoyed days with Mrs Kebels mother Mrs Marie Sample who met her father in Marshfield Wisconsin who is critically ill and resumed homeward journey via United Airlines from Iowa City. Rich family expects to take this fall making Mrs Rich hesitant about starting any baby chicks.
The article notes increased work on restoring electric and telephone poles along a road, hints at an anticipated all weather road since 1942, and mentions keeping tire chains ready as winter approaches. It references three week old White Rocks and a resident drawn into caring for them.
A tenderness study ranks beef cuts with tenderloin as the most tender. Rib, short loin, loin end, and chuck follow, while round neck and foreshank are less tender.
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