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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1920
Page
4
A call urges all readers to assist in funding summer band concerts. It notes musicians give real value through practice and time, deserve fair wages, and deserve community support. Citizens are asked to watch for opportunities to contribute and actively back the band's efforts.
Washington citizens may capitalize on limited opportunities as they prepare for spring gardening and a wartime pastimes revival. A contest offers twenty five dollars for the best trade slogan, closing May 1. Read the Journal coupon to submit suggestions promptly for a chance to win while large emigration from Germany to Mexico is noted.
A fragment shows ABE MARTIN quip about mixing with things and a Saturday bargain centered on a bath, reflecting humorous rural adage tone. The lines imply a folksy catalog of everyday items and thrift.
The speaker roams from sea to sea in search of perfect weather but laments endless rain and storms elsewhere. He longs for Kansas where friends drill and the climate feels most right, despite the broader world’s contrasts. He ends by sighing for his old five by seven town and its familiar comfort.
A Cedar Rapids Republican note suggests buying Liberty Bonds around 90 cents on the dollar as a good investment. It presents a concise opinion promoting government savings securities for readers seeking prudent purchases.
The report notes coal prices rise amid wage expectations for miners and again as wages are secured. It also discusses paving plans along 150 miles in town this year, seen as seed for durable roads once materials are delivered, per the Marshalltown Times-Republican.
The ad promotes Chamberlains Cough Remedy to ease Whooping Cough by loosening mucus and easing expulsions. It claims liquifying mucus reduces coughing fits and notes the product contains no codeine or narcotics. Lemmon's Drug Store.
The government will provide subsidies to agricultural societies and cultivators in France to help acquire farm tractors. The move aims to support farming groups and improve productivity across rural areas.
The Oskaloosa Herald notes that Italy aims to raise its peace time army to three hundred thousand men while remaining confident in the League of Nations, though preferring to maintain its existing line of insurance for security.
Bryant Venable of Whitaker Paper Company told the Advertising Club of Cincinnati that news print would reach fifteen cents per pound by mid June in the open market. Newspapers currently pay five cents per pound under contract, with higher future open market estimates and continued subscription increases likely.
A Battle Creek Michigan man writes of relief from heartburn indigestion and liver trouble after using Chamberlain's Tablets and recommends them for indigestion or constipation. Lemmon's Pharmacy advertises the product.
Iowa towns Lansing and two extreme northeastern Allamakee townships are the only areas in the state not covered by ice at some point in the glacial epoch. Prof. A C C Trowbridge of the University of Town details widespread glacial deposits across Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa, reshaping views of Iowa’s ancient landscape.
Carl Hass a noted Grinnell sprinter who won the Drake relay meet 100 yard dash last spring married Ruth Hamilton of Grinnell in Des Moines last night. Hass may quit school and will not compete in any spring track meets.
World war veterans met at the I. O. O. F. hall in North English to organize an American Legion post named Ross T. Hadley. Ross was the first North English boy to die for his country, and veterans pledged the honor he deserves. A follow up meeting will be held soon to perfect the organization.
Marion Davies treated Hackensack residents during The Dark Star filming in New Jersey. She toured stores with director Allan Dwan to pick wardrobe for a country bride role, drawing crowds as they watched her shopping and plans for a wedding sequence.
Cedar Rapids April 15 Mrs Henry Wormer wife of a Center Point stock dealer and Geo Nicholson are held on a statutory charge by Kansas City police after eloping a month ago. Wormer, about 55, mother of several children, refused to return to Iowa without requisition papers.
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