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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1972
Page
4
Washington Iowa editorial note reflects on the idea of finishing the course with faith. It cites I Timothy 4 7 and ponders pride or shame after life. A neighbor quip about housework contrasts unnoticed efforts with absence.
A nostalgic column lists varied September facts and celebrations from Be Late for Something Day and American Youth Month to National Tie Week and holidays like Rosh Hashanah. It notes common misconceptions about corporate profits and recalls local paper histories and social observances across the month.
A magazine survey finds Americans increasingly see big business as profiteering and unfair. The piece notes politicians exploit this mood, and many citizens mistakenly believe big business earns exorbitant profits.
A collage of light notes from local writers on communication, daily life, and social shifts. Jokes about tapping telephones and 8 cent letters sit beside observations on summer routines, parental taxi duties, and nostalgic reminders of walking. Miscellany from Treynor, Odebolt, Atlantic, and Red Oak columns.
Abigail Van Buren presents reader letters proposing traditional roles and social ideas. The exchange questions gender and work norms, family structures, and choices with responses that defend flexibility, address single parenting, working mothers, and freedom of choice, ending with a library fines dilemma and Abby’s guidance.
The Seeing Eye in Morristown, New Jersey warns that box tops and similar junk cannot be traded for a Seeing Eye dog. For 40 years people have sent such items in good faith, but applicants should know they can apply to the school and funding is not a barrier to receiving a dog.
A kaleidoscope of quirky thoughts features: a joke about parental choices and sex, a note on penguins never seeing ice, a tour of the Oedipus complex among geniuses, and a light medical chat from Bellevue about baldness in alcoholics. It ends with a question about who does corn husking on mid western farms.
In the Orient wind chimes and brass bells are described as the world s first air conditioners. Dangling in windows they ring with a breeze and supposedly make residents feel cooler. The piece notes mail address in Fort Worth and includes a brief UPI report about a Boise rooster addicted to doughnuts that crow after meals.
Mistress Mary, quite contrary, cites garden growth and bells while referencing a purchase of fertilizer from Hugh Hefner. The quirky verse fragment blends nursery rhyme imagery with a modern bemoaning note about supplier choice.
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