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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1973
Page
4
A 1973 editorial fragment laments over structured time and social groups. The author notes adults and youths increasingly must join organizations before doing anything and voices a wish to reset society to allow unstructured, spontaneous activity.
The almanac for Friday October 5 1973 notes the date as day 278 with 87 to follow and lists celestial observations. It recalls Chester Arthur born October 5 1830 and highlights key events including the 1918 Hindenburg Line breach, the 1960 Eastern Air Lines Electra crash, Pope Paul VI’s 1965 New York visit, and the 1970 Quebec crosses kidnapping.
In a North South vulnerable bridge hand West executes a rare double barreled endplay to force South into a discard sequence. After South reaches three spades, West manipulates club and heart plays to lure declarer into a misread, enabling South to gain a ruff and discard and make three spades. The maneuver shows tricks can vanish with precise endplay.
The column blends Watergate reflections with daily life failures from inflation to gas shortages. It links political distractions to grocery runs, price spikes, and school funding woes, ending with a call to resume Watergate coverage to move past economic trouble. The piece cites The Washington Evening Journal and dates to October 5, 1973.
In a column by L M Boyd from Fort Worth Texas a nostalgic reminiscence travels from a Watertown New York inventor who conceived bedsprings before the Civil War to quirky trivia about Shredded Wheat equal shares by couples in a vacation cottage, crime patterns, and plains Indian coup counts with light cultural asides and a closing author address.
Readers vent about noisy outsize city dogs and their owners, bug infested foods from rice and flour, and a stepfather reimbursement dispute. Abby advises on nuisance control and hints at legal recourse for caregiving expenses.
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