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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1944
Page
3
The piece argues for just punishment of Nazi leaders and a broader plan to reshape the German mind. It notes trials and the danger of vengeance, plus coverage of Soviet advances and prisoner treatment. It also mentions a corn contest, upcoming presidential campaigning, and local tax reforms proposals with skepticism.
A Mississippi steamboat halted in dense fog prompts a wry exchange between a captain and a passenger. The captain quips that until the boiler holds, they will not proceed, while a punning salesman and census humor highlight a string of quick quips about gifts, marriages, and large families.
Two colored soldiers crouch in a shell hole as a barrage roars overhead. They joke about fear and fate while a line about a bookcase and furniture shows the era’s blunt humor amid wartime danger. A vignette captures wartime intolerance and satire.
Living Lake opens next week with Hazel Sojka as teacher. Mrs Rennie Dawson notes cool rainy weather as students prepare for the new term.
Hollywood expert Paul E. MacPherson finds Miss Sarah Abbey a 33 year old trotter to play Maudeen Four in Twentieth Century Foxs Technicolor film Home in Indiana based on the Saturday Evening Post story The Phantom Filly. The film features Walter Brennan Lonne Callister Jeanne Crain and Charlotte Greenwood with the horse famed for a 2 09 mile. The horse trained with no incidents and insured for 10000 remains in studio files.
Prairie Flower notes the August 28 1944 wedding at Chase Field Texas of Doris Finck and Ens Ellis Finck. Attendants included Ens G K Benjamin and Ens John Cassabu TM with service members present. The piece blends wedding details with biographical notes on the couple and ends with a test recipe.
Official Flowers Hawaii selected the lehua Alaska chose the forget me not and the District of Columbia chose the American Beauty Rose.
Ainsworth schools opened Monday August 28 with Supt E R Butterworth coach Ralph Brown English and music Mrs Norma Clegg Home Economics Murval Weidlein 7th and 8th grade Mrs Meacham 5th and 6th Miss Utterback 8rd and 4th Joyce Linn 1st and 2nd Miss Johnson. Mrs Beulah Coward of Jacksonville Fla visiting in Washington.
Observation notes extreme night cold near the equator at one mile altitude where temperatures frequently drop to 112 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Warmer temperatures prevail above that altitude rather than colder.
Vatican City covers 108.7 acres with a prewar population just over 1,000. It remains a complete independent state with its own schools post office mint power plant grocery store workshops law courts jail and a radio station.
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