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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1918
Page
2
A detailed summary describes the five year lease model where Cassady and partner own breeding stock jointly with a tenant. Both share profits and losses, costs are split, and the firm provides seed, feed, and equipment while the tenant handles cultivation, harvest, and groundwork. The lease outlines grain, livestock, and dairy sharing, manure distribution, taxes, and maintenance duties.
Grateful mothers describe Foley's Honey and Tar Compound curing severe croup and whooping cough in their children after other remedies failed. Letters from Mrs T Neurever Mau Claire Wils and Mrs D Gilkeson praise relief of throat inflammation and coughing with one dose or tile, noting adults benefit as well. Lemmon's Pharmacy Washington carries the remedy.
A reader warns against mending a broken stove lining with salt and ashes as the salt will rust the stove. Instead gather cement and game sand, mix with water, fill holes and cracks, and restore the lining to nearly new.
A concise maxim from William Peon on thrift and generosity. Frugality curbs unnecessary spending while liberality guides help to those in need. Used together they prevent covetousness and prodigality.
The fragment hints at fashion and gendered apparel trends with bold attitudes. It references women preferring larger bras and men adopting more audacious approaches, reflecting a playful social snapshot.
The column shares farm notes from O'Brien and leaders like the Cassadys and Lord. It discusses soil acidity tests, seed corn testing, and salt effects on corn and hogs, plus a limerick about farming with teams and a farmer's oats and plowing progress.
Harry Leffler reports his herd affected by a spring horse disease yet no animals died and while some have been out of harness for up to a week, he continues field work with stalks being harrowed down in preparation for the rake.
Merrifield works his land where Noel lived last year using five horses to plow sod. Haage family shows well bred Hereford calves, and about twenty hogs go on feed. Melo Havel plows south Haage land with a new tractor as cork and machinery costs rise. Albert Janecek helps with horses on Melo's farm.
M M Steele plans to sell a load of calves on the June market if prices allow profit. calves weigh about 656 pounds each and the market could bring either profit or loss.
Food Administrator Deems appeals to Iowans to eat more potatoes to prevent crop waste and conserve wheat for Allies. Letters from Forest City and Northern Town note ample potato supply and poor market, with calls to use potatoes at reasonable prices. Officials cite 100 ways to prepare potatoes and warn of potential waste unless consumption rises before June.
Surplus wheat has been sent to famine threatened Europe while the United States corn harvest, exceeding 3,000,000,000 bushels, is hailed as the nations main stay in wartime food security. Housewives bake with 20 percent corn meal, corn syrup, and corn oil expands corn products as a vital national aid.
The family of William Piggott of Negaunee Michigan claims to be the only full family serving overseas in World War I. The father is in France with the railroad corps, the youngest son joined the regulars and landed in France early, the daughter serves in the American hospital service, and the other son is with the National Guard in the Rainbow Division.
The Steele place spans 490 acres and Mr. Steele fears draft pressures will remove workers from the farm. He says losing a single boy helper is the equivalent of losing two hired hands, risking critical farm labor.
An old advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It explains Eustachian tube inflammation causing rumbling or partial hearing loss, with permanent damage possible if untreated. The ad claims Halve Catarrh Medicine restores mucous linings and offers a $100 reward for proof of failure, circulating from Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio.
Paris hosts North European refugees, notably repatriated Alsace Lorraine residents, yet many aid themselves. Cooperative kitchens run by refugees offer low cost meals with options to dine in or take away. A July meeting at 7 Rue Hauteville discussed housing for the refugees, who are mostly women, showing practical self help and planning.
Major General Peyton March takes command as acting chief of staff in the War Department Washington succeeding General Biddle. Bliss remains titular chief abroad at the inter allied military conference while March, former chief of artillery with the AEF, leads the staff.
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