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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1944
Page
6
Ration certificates no longer needed to recap truck tires or to buy inner tubes or used farm implement tires. The change removes prior paperwork for tire supplies, affecting farmers and commercial fleets seeking replacements and recaps.
Directory item notes an attorney contract department at 204 West Main Street, east of Court House, with reference to office space by block plane and 147 tax?
County Attorney George F Morrison and Walter Schroeder appear alongside R Noonan and W Rawe as superintendents candidates. Principal Mills Ethel McCreedy, with School Board leaders Richard A Stewart secretary CG Weldin Harry Ramseyer Fred Downing and B F Bostwick are listed in the slate. Names appear in a formal municipal notice of upcoming governance appointments.
The notice explains suspension of periodic tire inspections while urging car owners to keep inspection records. It lists requirements for inspections to obtain ration certificates for various tire types and outlines extensive gasoline, sugar, and food stamp coupon validity and application rules, including periods, quantities, and forms.
Washington Badge No 264 PF and AM holds regular meeting on the first Friday of each month. D Morrison Jr is Worshipful Master and A W Yard is secretary.
A dense listing of west and eastbound rail services with train numbers times and stops, plus city bus routes from Washington to Chicago. Agents Goodlander and Anderson are noted, with depot ticket purchase instructions and contact points at Winga's Café.
A garbled OCR led to a jumble of train times between Washington Iowa City Cedar Rapids Mt. Pleasant Ft Madison and other towns. Readable segments show departures and arrivals with multiple errors and mis-typed minutes, obscuring a coherent timetable from the depot narrative.
Xenia area notes report Labor week end visits at the Roy Woods home by Paul Wiebel of London and Norman Woods in New Guinea, and residents at A. J. Jeffrey and Anna Wagenknecht households. Other entries mention hospital recovery for D. D. Stephens, visits by the Guinns and Edmondsons, and Katherine Morris leaving for Iowa Wesleyan University.
Cpl and Mrs Junior Kientz visited in Merrimac and relatives as listed. Community mentions include visits to Amrine and Baldosier households, and note of bean beetles and smashing eggs. The National Inventors council reports 200000 inventions since 1940, with many warranting serious consideration.
Columbia's Once Upon a Time starring Cary Grant and Janet Blair plays Friday and Saturday. The whimsical heart warming tale follows a theater producer on a quirky quest aided by a dancing caterpillar and a matchmaking romance with Blair.
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