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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1920
Page
4
Washington stores report heavy demand for overalls while school girls buy aprons to save materials. Merchants warn supplies may run short and prices rise, noting silk overalls now cost 50 dollars. A local sheep raiser argues wool prices fall as demand shifts to cotton overalls and wool goods stay high.
A poet-narrator laments high food costs and profiteering as they soak clothes and buy spuds. He rails against middlemen and luxury goods while urging simpler fare and frugality to ease hardship. The piece blends humor with a social critique of price inflation and economic pressures.
A humorously authoritative note claims the correct term is milk cow, not milk cow. The column laments ongoing misfortunes with daily mishaps from Charley Work tipping hay to Hiram Johnson breaking a cistern wall. A Washington figure reveals six months of coal shoveling, and the weather expert fires up an unseasonable forecast.
Keota Eagle notes the Irish potato once a staple now viewed as luxury with cabbage likely to appear on rich tables. The commentary reflects on shifting food value and the evolving diet.
The Des Moines Capital asserts Germany’s spirit remains unbroken despite military defeat and warns allied nations to remember the nation’s continuing traits of intrigue and fraud.
The Cedar Rapids Republication editorial argues prices stay high while demand outstrips supply. It contends prices only fall when supply increases or demand decreases, noting one seller can command a high price with scarce goods, but ten similar items normalize prices through salesmanship.
Chief Justice Scott M. Ladd of the Iowa Supreme Court will retire this fall after 24 years on the bench. Physicians advised him to step down to protect his eyesight, with term ending December 31. Justice Gaynor praised his long, unselfish service and called him an ideal jurist.
Maquoketa Light and Heat Company announces gas rates rise to $2 per 1000 cubic feet starting May 1 due to higher costs in manufacture and distribution. The prior rate was $1.50, a 33 1 3 percent increase, with a 5 percent cash discount reducing the net rise to 28 1 3 percent.
A Ness City note argues that advertisers drive public improvement and growth, linking local ads to the town’s wealth and progress. The piece urges readers to support advertised goods from merchants shaping Ness City’s development.
Capper's Weekly features a schoolboy piece from St Louis that humorously misdefines geese as heavyset birds with odd anatomy and back-set feet. The rambling satire ends with a bold liberty or death quip about preferring to be a gander.
Iseph A York of Portland Maine says four bottles of Tanlac made him feel twenty years younger and gain sixteen pounds. He describes prior two year decline with weakness, nervousness, cramps after meals, and insomnia, and credits Tanlac with restoring appetite and strength. Sherman Bros in Washington and local druggists sell Tanlac.
Albert Lightner returns home to find his 17 month old child alone after his wife vanishes with a trunk of clothes and a $42 wage check. The note she left says she is going to Indiana and bought a Vincennes Ind ticket. They were married three years with no reported domestic trouble.
In the District Court of Washington County Iowa Karl F Edmondson plaintiff against Robert Boyd Robert Rose John Coulter Sarah Boyd John R Coulter Ann Coulter Hugh Coulter Betsy Jane McClushy Samuel McClushy James H Coulter Samuel B Coulter Margaret B Twinam William W Twinam Abraham W conter Robert Rose Jeline Reese Ann Marion Dill Martha Jane Dill Anna Mary Dill Albert Bruce Dill Thomas Meril Dill Hannah Martha Nelson Hugh Jackson Coulter Robert Godfrey Mrs Robert Godfrey Mrs Wena Brindley F W Brindley Frank W Brindley Benny Jane McClusky Samuel McClusky and unknown claimants of the real estate described. You are notified there is a petition alleging absolute ownership in fee simple and seeks to quiet, confirm and establish plaintiff's title against adverse claims. If you fail to appear by noon of the next term ending 6th day of March 1920 at the Courthouse in Washington Iowa default will be entered. Richer Livingston & Eicher Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Wayne Whitmore of Farragut faces grand jury action after a hearing in Sidney on April 2. Charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm, he was bound over on 750 cash bond. Gene Williams, 18, testified he was horse whipped at a farm. Whitmore previously beat James Burn Coin, who won $1,140 damages in 1917 for assaulting him during road gang work.
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