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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1973
Page
3
Washington Iowa editorial reflects on Psalm 130:4 about God forgiving sins upon sincere repentance. The column notes how forgiveness contrasts with human faults and cites a wife’s delight at her husband’s secretary marrying. It also laments that some opinions persist as family tradition across generations.
A columnist laments rapid rise of television talent and poor English on air. The piece condemns language slips on networks and criticizes the failed Pruitt Igoe housing project in St. Louis, noting its cost, deficits, vandalism, crime, and planned demolition at taxpayer expense.
A mosaic column discusses the clash of morality and law with Pr gressive ideas to relax penalties for gambling marijuana pornography prostitution and private acts. It weaves quotations from Rousseau and Mary Baker Eddy with a bridge hand example to illustrate opening leads and grand slams.
LM Boyd cites Margaret Mead claiming women are fiercer than men and activist groups ferocious. The piece notes surveys on name dislike by gender, birth day rhymes, and Sunday or Thursday-born trivia. It adds a note on dentistry trends and Sweden’s welfare state wealth concentration with high taxes.
A Dear Abby reader suggests using gentian violet to detect purse thieves, but the idea needs a pharmacist. The note about purple hands notes prison impossible wash. Another reader asks how to handle Aunt Edna forgetting her husband, so Abby advises frank talk to prevent future hurt.
The almanac lists Mohandas Gandhi born Oct 2 1869, Major John Andre hanged in 1780, Pan American conference in 1889, Wilson stroke in 1919, Fortas resignation in 1968, and Stendhal quote. Also mentions planets and zodiac and a thought for the day.
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