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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1972
Page
4
The piece tropes a Psalm quote, then contrasts sensual life with higher joy. It jokes that the happiest families space children about ten feet apart and notes passes at girls with glasses depend on frames. The tone satirizes social norms of the era.
The West Des Moines Express features Dorothy Reid while the Cherokee Daily Times runs Tom Miller as guest writers. They fill in as the paper catches up on deadlines and provide local perspectives.
Don frantically searches for a $100 bill he pinned to his undershirt during travel. After an exhausting night of false trails and loud bounces, he finds the bill in a small box in his big chest. The affair ends with the bill safely banked and household change under a dollar.
Two nuns with a stalled car flagged down a petroleum truck. The driver could not transfer gas, so the nuns improvised a bedpan to siphon fuel into the tank. A passing motorist witnesses the scene and mutters that it is faith.
In the Olympic Bridge tourney Italy defeats France 680 points after Forquet and Garozzo miss a penalty and Garozzo’s double and Forquet’s real notrump double upend the defensive sequence. At the other table France take 2NT for 120 points. Tomorrow France faces Italy.
Abby answers readers on marriage work and personal boundaries. A wife asks why her husband schedules outings, a bookkeeper endures unwanted advances, a divorced mother resists her son’s wedding, and a reader is urged to seek health checks and honest talk. Abby urges direct, practical steps.
A collage of L. M. Boyd humor notes from 1972 includes a tale about a man who rises by staying at his desk after wearing the wrong trousers. It also relays baby sleep findings, food quips, blood type trivia, and a vacation mindset for career moves with an address for fan mail in Fort Worth.
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