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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1939
Page
8
The speaker, invoking unemployment as a national crisis, argues for a permanent solution through private enterprise and civic duty. He warns against temporary measures and highlights the need to protect rights and liberties at home while opposing totalitarian threats abroad.
An appeal urges readers to visit Philips Hebner Drug Store today to take the RUN test claiming relief from rheumatic pain. The notice emphasizes family well being and personal health responsibility.
In Crawfordsville on Tuesday a hog was electrocuted after rooting against a wet ground wire. Lee Lease received a light shock while removing the hog. Community notes include visits and a missionary talk at the Presbyterian church by Rev. Marshall Pinkerton from Ketah, India, home on furlough.
A historic note records the poet laureate salary as 97 pounds per year, indicating a modest royal stipend and the era's currency value for the literary office. The fragment hints at land or endowment linked to the position.
Dennis J. O'Brien 78 of Muscatine, a former Junction resident, died at Bellevue hospital Muscatine after three months as a patient. Funeral 9:30 a m Saturday at St Mathias church Muscatine burial Arden cemetery. Other items note Chicago accident death of Mrs Arthur Kindler and family, Ellen McFarland dies in Kewanee, and local births and visits.
Mrs Hester Huntington of New York posts 7500 dollars bail for Earl Browder general secretary of the Communist party after Browder is detained by federal authorities on a fraudulent passport charge. Huntington says she helped Browder as a matter of principle.
Thieves stole three saddles and bridles from the AF Marquardt garage in Casper Wyoming. A week later they returned and stole the race horses the gear fit, leaving the owner without the animals.
United States accessibility shows one radio set per five people, far ahead of four nations. Telephone reach stands at one line per seven people, exceeding other nations where lines reach one per 35 people.
Iowa City reports a study by Dr. Fred O Erbe of 150 lifers at Ft Madison revealing poor social heritage and limited education. Findings show murderers are emotionally unstable and act impulsively in crises while property offenders stem from bad economic and social backgrounds and unstable employment.
Robert A. McDaniels and Kelvin F. Baxter, both in their early twenties, landed at Muncie Indiana airport after setting a new light land plane endurance record of 535 hours and 45 minutes. They surpassed a 343 hour mark set by Decatur brothers but trailed the world record of 635 hours by the Key brothers of Meridian Mississippi by over 100 hours.
Des Moines hosts Archduke Felix of Austria son of the late emperor Karl as he speaks at the Iowa State Teachers association convention replacing Jan Masaryk on the program. The visit marks the first Austrian imperial family member to tour the United States.
Archduke Felix, 23, travels with the Prince of Luxembourg and remains in the United States due to war. He will address the Hapsburg house on The Reconstruction of Central Europe. Mrs Hebner Lytle Morrison and Thorns plan a return home after a motor trip in the Ozarks.
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