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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1944
Page
5
Salem residents read about a child misnaming a possum as a "kitten" during a yard sighting by 21 month old Sonja Shetler. The tale sits among a roundup of local notes, visits, teaching, and sailors seeking extra work in California.
The passage notes a series of social visits and church events in West Chester and nearby towns. It mentions Mrs H Stewarts birth anniversary, guests including H Stewart and C C Niffenegger family, Rev H W Munster and Des Moines bishop installation, and W E Anton visiting from West Chester aged 86. It also cites Mrs Anten’s Feb 1943 death, travels to Washington to hear Gov John Bricker, and birthday dinner at the Stewart home with multiple local families and relatives, plus Red Cloud Nebraska visitors documenting corn crops.
Earl Griggs and family hosted a gathering at the Ferguson home in Westchester on Friday evening to view several of his local pictures, highlighted by a vibrant color film featuring his young daughter Karen. Relatives and friends from out of town included Walter Lance and his sister Lucille, plus Cpl Merle Werner on furlough from Fort Wayne.
Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray and Edward G Robinson star in a Paramount screen story arriving tonight at the State Theatre. The psychological drama blends love suspense and murder with a mood reminiscent of Suspicion and Rebecca. MacMurray plays a fast talking clever and handsome insurance man in the film.
Ed ward G. Robinson plays the claims manager in a tale where Fred and Barbara Stanwyck scheme to kill her oil man husband to collect the policy. The plot advances with meticulous detail, but guilt distorts their minds as suspicions mount. Read the Classified ads.
The practice of stencilling dates to Theodoric the Ostrogoth king who was illiterate. He owned a gold plate bearing THEOD and used it to trace his signature on state documents by pressing the plate to the paper and tracing with a quill.
Miss Gloria Large serves as a flight lieutenant in the British Royal Air Force ferry command, the only female among about five thousand men, while on convalescent leave in Los Angeles.
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