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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1962
Page
4
A column reflects on life in Texas bragging and slant hole oil drilling, then reminisces about Iowa mud roads in the 1920s via Model T driving. It cites Texas oil theft concerns, then shifts to a Journal employee stuck in mud, contrasting past and present driving hazards.
The columnist laments how wasting time is not a crime and notes Congress may recess while politics persist. He argues the nation’s real population center is each reader’s hometown.
A survey shows 90 percent of large suburban retailers including home builders rely on newspaper advertising. Newspapers offer maps to developments, financing details, and built trust, reaching every potential buyer efficiently.
A guide highlighting how aging changes can mirror allergies with notes on vaccines, smallpox polio diphtheria and whooping cough protection. It warns about aspirin safety for children and mentions cortisone for pain relief and appetite. It also notes new anti static fabrics and other small comfort innovations.
The Dalton gang's 1892 Coffeyville raid is recalled as gunfire killed eight, including four outlaws and city defenders. Emmett Dalton survived, later paroled, became a writer and actor, while monuments and graves mark the fallen in the town plaza and nearby fields.
Eastern industrialists view Iowa through culture and research, with a $100000 tourism program and a survey of 200 industrialists in Boston and New York. Clinton map error fixed, Hughes portrait returned, Democrats tour 119 towns, Fort Madison prison expansion planned, and cost estimates to be added to money bills by comptroller.
Russell Parcell of West Chester is hospitalized at Mercy Hospital Iowa City after injuries from the Iowa City Mid Prairie football game Saturday. Nancy Coffman also at Mercy Iowa City after eye surgery, she is three years old, daughter of Mr and Mrs Dewey Coffman.
In this contract bridge analysis South defends with three hearts as the telling cue. The three of hearts reveals West with four hearts and four diamonds, guiding East to infer South has a singleton diamond and altering play to counter the declarer.
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