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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
3
The school board begins advertising for bids to erect the new Washington high school budgeted at 156000 dollars. Bids are to be let at the secretary’s office on Friday May 17 with construction hoped to start by June first.
Stomach trouble can sap strength and energy and induce despondency. A few doses of Chamberlains Tablets improve digestion and invigorate the liver and bowels, often yielding prompt and effective recovery. For sale by Lemmon's Pharmacy. advt.
Chief Flynn presents The Eagle's Eye a serial expose of Imperial Germanys spy network in America. The first episode shows how Dr Heinrich Albert lost his portfolio containing vital memos and how US secret service traced the papers. Each weekly Fox Theatre showing reveals new espionage details and the spies fear Chief Flynn and his operatives.
A group of twenty nine Washington County registrants will depart April 30 for Camp Dodge as the county’s next National Army increment. The list reflects deferment reviews with most deferments granted for farmers. Also traveling to Camp Dodge are 225 recruits from southeastern Iowa counties including Lee, Van Buren, Wapello, Keokuk, and Mahaska.
Washington school pupils invest heavily in war and thrift stamps with 82 percent of the enrollment already buying. Lincoln school tops the list, followed by Wallace and the high school, as efforts include a poetry note by Maurice Smith and monthly penmanship pennants for top classes.
A Swedish report to the state department cites Swedish newspapers dated April 13 saying fighting near Helsingfors lasted three days with heavy casualties on both sides. The White Guard and their German supporters gained valuable booty. prisoners held by the White Guard were released in Helsingfors.
The department of labor report to the Senate notes Washington residents with small incomes spend little on food or clothing. It says thirty cents a day is the minimum needed for adult males to maintain health, while husbands spend more on apparel than wives.
The United States Bureau of Plant Industry unveils a method for making a delicious table sirup from muscadine grapes, detailing process steps and potential quality improvements for home and small-scale production.
Major Smith Brookhart of Washington, a small arms expert, is expected to assist Lieut. Col. Morton C. Mumma as commandant of the new small arms firing school to be opened at Camp Perry, Ohio. Mumma, long the army's top small arms expert, will recruit civilian marksmen to train officers and enlisted men in rifle and revolver shooting for national army, national guard, and regular army commands.
The speaker cites Carlyle asking for exact assessment of how a nan governs a people and the net social worth of a nation over time, prompting reflection on governance and value in society.
The W R C will meet Saturday at 2:00 PM in the G A R hall. A large class will be initiated and balloting on candidates will be conducted.
London reports an official Constantinople statement announcing the capture of Batum by Turkish forces. The city had been held by Armenian defenders.
Eureka California reports a violent quake lasting about twenty seconds with no known damage. In London, the Lords pass the second reading of a man power bill including conscription for Ireland and industry screening to reinforce the British army.
Bloodhounds were once called southhounds as they tracked deer wild boar or wolves. When wounded quarry escaped these scent hounds followed the blood trail to recover the game, giving them the name bloodhounds.
Proverbs travel by emigrants tourists missionaries tradesmen and others. Similar proverbs may arise independently from shared human experience across cultures and regions.
A compact meditation on life as daily labor shared among workers under God’s sun. John Burroughs reflects on endurance, thought, effort, and small joys found in communal toil.
A fragment from a passage shows Mary asking her mother about changeable silk and whether it can be taken back tomorrow, reflecting a child’s curiosity about flexible or returnable goods. The scene contrasts parental guidance with everyday shopping language.
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