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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 24, 1941

Page

4

Obey God Rather Than Men Bible Thought

The column reflects on Numbers 23 9 urging obedience to divine will over human authority. A devotional meditation for Wednesday September 24 1941 emphasizing faithfulness and humility in face of opposition.

Singing and social life in small town notes

A reflective column extols community singing in clubs and schools, praising junior high students and adults who join in group song. It critiques overemphasis on organizational offices, notes class clashes over wealth, and urges home-based character building through attentive parenting and proper speech.

Ethel McCreedy

Bent Reed on Stalin Trustworthiness

A London commentary argues Britain and the United States should not rely on Stalin. The writer likens Stalin to Hitler, saying he is useful while aligned with them but untrustworthy and prone to shifting loyalty.

Atlantic News-Telegraph Britain United States Russia Stalin Hitler

Welsh Alphabet Instructor Honored After four Decades of Teaching

Moses Jones an 83 year old Welsh alphabet teacher in Cardiff has spent over 40 years instructing children in a Sunday school. He cannot read or write yet he receives gifts in appreciation of his patient lessons and devotion.

Moses Jones Cardiff Wales

Gas Driven Engines See Efficiency Loss with Illuminating Gas

Ordinary gasoline and oil engines experience 10 to 30 percent efficiency loss when running on illuminating gas, according to British investigations.

Great Britain

Missouri Scrip of 1907 Redeemed in St Joseph Banks

Scrip from the 1907 panic issued in Missouri along with three pieces totaling 1 dollar 50 cents and 25 cents were mailed from Leavenworth Kansas for redemption. The banks paid par.

Missouri St. Joseph Leavenworth Kan

World’s extreme nations by area

Vatican City is the smallest nation at 108.7 acres. The largest is the U S S R with 3,144,228 square miles.

Vatican City Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Broken Vow Ends as Alaska Contest Winner Remarries

Mervin Anderson once vowed no woman would get his money after winning three Alaska guessing contests including the Nenana ice pool for 75 000. The Fairbanks bus driver who said he would never marry has now remarried his first wife.

Mervin Anderson Alaska Nenana Anderson Fairbanks

Dangerous Farm Work Claims More Lives in Industry

A fact summary notes that farm work causes more fatalities than any other industry, highlighting the extreme dangers faced by agricultural laborers.

Navy Letters From Ray Palmer From San Diego

A wartime letter from Ray T. Palmer at U S Naval Hospital San Diego describes Navy training in nine weeks with 96 graduates on August 13 and assignments to Puget Sound Mare Island Pearl Harbor and San Diego. He requests the Evening Journal be sent and includes $2 for postage. He notes the climate is good and new barracks and beds are provided.

U. S. Naval Hospital San Diego California V. O Washington Navy United States Naval Hospital Calif Puget Sound Mare Island Pearl Harbor Naval Training Station Evening Journal Simmon Ray T. Palmer

Jokes and Quips From an Old Evening

A collection of light humor and anecdotes including transfusion tales, a Scotsman blood offer, insurance costs with age, owner author banter, a department store snapshot joke, a person’s hat removal quip, a tiny man versus headache, a rug moth show, a professor on change in water, and a mushroom misdirection note from a reader.

Loyalty Pays Of Murray Waldenburg Fans Dodgers

Private in the U S army Murray Waldenburg, a Brooklyn Dodger admirer, rebuked a Camp Wheeler officer over taunts about “dem bums from Brooklyn.” If the Dodgers win the pennant he’ll receive a free plane trip to the series from the New York Journal American and be a guest of Dodger President Larry MacPhail.

Murray Waldenburg Uncle Sam Brooklyn Dodger Waldenburg Camp Wheeler Georgia Brooklyn Dodgers Dodger Larry MacPhail New York Journal- American

Great Grandchild of Mr and Mrs Orris Dies in Wisconsin

East Sunset September 23 Mrs S K Orris learn of the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Ora Marlatt of Criwitz Wisconsin who lived only a short time The Marlatt family includes Alccinda Orris daughter of W A Ortis Criwitz The death brings sorrow to the Orris family as their first great grandchild

Hazel Raymond East Sunset S. K. Orris Ora Marlatt Criwitz Wis Marlatt Al¢cinda Orris W. A. Ortis

Sunday guests visit Merle Twinam home in New London area

Sunday guests at the Merle Twinam residence included Mr. and Mrs. Strothman and families from New London, Mr. and Mrs. Gehring of Burlington, and Mr. and Mrs. Gault and families. The Elmer McArtor family toured a Watermelon patch near the Junction, noting abundant niece melons and dairy details about feeding.

William Russell Williams Howard Williams George Yeager Vera Boyd Elon Christener Davenport Dick Stephens Sarah Hughes Mildred Hughes Chicago Roya Twinam Raymond Hess Fort Madison John Martin Merle Twinam Co. A. Strothman Grace Strothman Charles Strothman New London C. Gehring Burlington Frank Gault Elmer McArtor

Cows urged to feed grain with grass this fall

Dairy extension specialist at Iowa State College advises feeding dry roughage with bluegrass and a grain mix to maintain cow body weight. Recommended rations include four parts corn four parts oats and one part high protein feed such as soybeans or cottonseed. If oats are scarce, use five parts corn three parts oats and one part high protein feed, then adjust later.

Towa State College

Radio Marconi Demonstrates Tuning Art Under Patent 7777

The inventor showed that tuning circuits could separate multiple radio messages without interference regardless of how many stations operated, using his notable patent 7777.

Marconi

Deer Clears Car Then Jumps A Bank In Montana

A driver near Butte Montana slowed to avoid a deer that appeared to block the road. The deer leaped over the car, clearing it with a graceful stride and finishing with a jump across a one foot bank.

Basil Simon Butte Mont

Catherine the Great Born Sophia in Stettin Germany

The most famous empress of Russia Catherine the Great was not Russian by birth and was christened Sophia in Stettin Germany where she was born.

Empress Russia Catherine the Great Catherine Stettin Germany Sophia

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