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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1931
Page
4
Theme verse from Jeremiah 21 8 admonishes readers to choose life by following the Lord and avoid the path of death. The brief spiritual call emphasizes decision and divine guidance for daily conduct. No further details are provided in the excerpt.
Despite cold wet Likely rain, Case Field's opening drew strong praise. The enterprise expects fast cost recovery with better night attendance as novelty and lights create a pretty scene. Washington takes pride in its new athletic held field and venue.
A reader laments gangster glorification in movies and notes public fatigue with crime portrayals. The writer argues films unfairly condemn prohibition or favor booze, urging balanced portrayals and repeated attention to alcohol’s harm.
A translated resolution from the German Association of Neurologists and Psychiatrists declares beer cannot be healthful due to its high alcohol content. It states beer damages several body tissues, especially the nervous system, and that beer drinking and advertising menace public health by lowering resistance, shortening life, and increasing crime and accidents.
A jumbled, lively clipping blends home life, a nostalgic song, revival zeal, and scattered reminiscences. It mentions warmth from a grate, a midwestern climate shift, and a stream of anecdotes about Hoover, Cas, and local history, ending with reflections on taxes, schools, and folk humor.
Des Moines reports a clear fall day with a federal forecast predicting slightly higher temperatures. Morning lows reached 36 at Boone with no frost. highs yesterday reached 75 at Alta, Boone, Clarinda, and Estherville. In Dubuque a cave man figure died after years living at Rock Cut. Emil Goettsch, 14, drowned in the Mississippi. efforts underway to recover his body.
A three hundred pound man gazes at a haberdasher's display while a friend asks if he considers the lavender silk marked down. The man denies the notion with a quiet retort about buying only a handle.
Lodges Washington Chapter No 98 U S Regular meeting second Thursday night each month W McDaniel W M Ernestine Denison secretary Visiting members welcome Damascus Shrine No 10 Regular meeting fourth Tuesday of each month Ma Temple rooms Mrs Chicat Haven War Washington Lodge No 26 A A M Regular meeting first Friday of each month Harry C Ward W M A W Yard Secretary Cyrus Chapter No 13 R A L Me Regular meeting second Friday of each month J W Eastin H P A W Yard secretary
Railway time table lists trains with departures and arrivals at Kar Eastbound and Westbound. Includes Golden State Limited No 30 Local Passenger 45 p m and No 80 Local Daily except Sunday 5:30 p m. Also Apache No 2 0 48 Local Passenger Daily except Sunday 5 50 p m and Local Freight No 83 Daily except Sunday 1 35 a m.
Local passenger service daily except Sunday for No 420 mixed train daily except Sunday. Mixed train runs Sundays at 9. California passengers disembark at four stops. L. Goodlander.
An OCR trimmed item reports scattered details with unclear names and places. Readers get partial phrases about events and people but the section is fragmented, hindering a clear summary of what happened.
In a mystery set in Essex, Jim Wynter and Bill Grayson chase a mysterious ex-convict tied to Katharine Warny and the missing Czarina rubles. A collapsed wall reveals a sealed vault door while Sant recalls Sing Sing prison, hinting at a planned obstruction and a dangerous, unresolved pursuit.
A jumble of brief items notes a funeral parlor choice by a dying man, an appeal to Fairfield Sunday schools to organize canning parties for the needy, an arraignment scheduled for two teens in a Ottumwa grocery store robbery, and church district superintendents named at an Iowa Methodist meeting.
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