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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1918
Page
8
Local mentions include shoe ads from Fox and Dewey and a reminder to tell merchants I saw your ad. Potatoes at 89 cents per bushel from F. W. Brindley and 500 bushel on track. Mrs. Blanch Parks from Sioux City visiting relatives. PM. Major Brookhart to visit before Camp Cody transfer for rifle practice.
A Saturday Liberty Day event in a Washington Methodist church urged 100 percent patriotism and urged reporting neighbors with traitorous inclinations to the council of defense. Speakers including Col. Palmer and Dr. Glendinning condemned Germans and slackers and praised patriotic effort.
Mrs Rose Bradley aged sixty died at the county hospital after months of cancer. Funeral at St James Catholic church tomorrow at nine with interment in Elm Grove cemetery. She was born in the county and lived here all her life. Her husband William Bradley has been absent eighteen years and may be dead. She leaves five children all deceased and a brother John Garber of Thornburg Iowa.
Mrs Anna K Anderson and Miss Gertrude Kendall report the death of two year old Jimmie Hadden son of S C and Marian Gibson Hadden. Cause of death whooping cough. Burial private at Mt Greenwood Cemetery in line with Chicago quarantine rules.
In first readings at the track, a quantity of White Western potatoes is noted with price per bushel in cents. The report mentions W Brindley and a numbered route or location, but details are fragmentary and unclear on other entities or totals.
An old classified notice offers cash registers for sale with a contact phone number 267 for purchaser inquiries.
FP. W. Brindley reports sale of fine white Western potatoes at 500 bushels priced at 80 cents per bushel. Market notes indicate potential steady demand and ready pickup terms.
The article explains that West cyclones are tornadoes with varying widths. Most storms reach 40 to 60 mph winds, are straight inwards, and do not whirl, while extremely wide tornadoes are rare. It contrasts cyclones with eyelones and notes the violent, whirling nature of true tornadoes.
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