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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1973
Page
4
Washington Iowa editorial notes for September 29 1973 urge readers to value testing as the forge of strong character citing James 1 12. The piece frames experience and divine revelation as twin teachers shaping virtue through temptation and trial.
A factory owner retires and transfers his business to staff who reward him with a golf club membership and a set of matched clubs. On his first tee lesson he asks the caddy what to do next and quips about needing instructions to hit the ball into the cup.
A misfit chauffeur proves faithfulness to a dangerous major as a girl slips away. A jokey tale ends with a boastful soldier revealing the girl was his, and a science fiction punchline shows an astronaut chasing a broker's windfall only to be reminded to pay up.
A housewife faced recurring notices of overpayment or underpayment after mailing checks for gas bills. After months of disagreement, a kind office worker reviewed the payments and sent a handwritten note: Please pay the amount, You have been paying the date.
A North South deal shows six clubs reaching slam with East West misdefense. South sees a singleton club and cashes the ace, while East misreads, allowing declarer to gain 1,670 points. The article discusses how different bidding and defense could yield six diamonds or hearts instead.
A humorous poem about wearing bifocals explains how the upper lens helps with distance while the lower aids reading. The narrator misjudges steps and street levels, causing comical confusion as townsfolk mistake mishaps for drunkenness. Taken from Edgar A. Guest’s Along Life's Highway.
A collage of reader questions and responses from 1973 covers intimate matters, social taboos, and snippets on etiquette. It includes Dear Abby exchanges on group sex, age of marriage legality, workplace boundaries, and senior citizen views, plus light notes on lie detection myths and Gutenberg trivia.
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