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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1918
Page
7
Washington County neighborhood updates summarize coming and going events in local communities. Brief notices cover local happenings, social happenings, and municipal items across Over County.
Rural Route 4 notes a visit by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Baker and their daughter Lucile to Earl Kephart. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Palmer and daughters Ruth and Faith visit Harry Bishop. Mrs. Sam Sigafoose has surgery at Centerville hospital and is reported doing well. Rob Coulter hosts C E Coulter of Ogden Utah visiting relatives.
Mr Strum and daughter Jennie visited Washington on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Lyall Moore of Harper stayed Friday night with J B Moore before returning home. Miss Floy Owen attended the West Chester Queen Esther Circle convention at West Liberty and returned Monday. Mrs Breuter of Washington spent a few days with her niece Mrs Will Embree. Ladies from the vicinity visited Lexington Ladies Aid at Miss Clara Huber’s home last Thursday. Sew and So club met at Mrs Chas Johnson’s home Thursday.
Wellston April 25 Miss Cecil Hotle is sick with the mumps. Charley Harvey and family visited at the Ralph Brinning home Wednesday evening. Al Augustine of West Chester and others visited the Will H Brinning home Wednesday. David Turnipseed and family were Washington callers Tuesday. Roads are being dragged, sign of another rain.
Mr and Mrs J J Davison and children Loyd and Dale Oscar visited the parental Hiram Weaver home on Sunday. Lizzie Carpenter helps with housework this week. Jack Riley and son Cecil were caretakers in Washington today. Mrs Clarence Benson visited her mother Mrs C W Merchant on Monday. Ladies Bible Study of the Christian church met at J L Davis's home Wednesday evening. The Kaiser says that Germany must accept a full measure of consequences in the war coverage.
An advertisement extols Mother's Friend as a prenatal remedy easing abdominal strain during pregnancy. It promises reduced pain at birth, teaches daily use, and offers a free "Motherhood book" mailed on request. Bradfield Regulator is cited with Atlanta, Georgia distribution.
Postwar era worries rise as observers warn of dangers and diminished threats. Mrs. Ezra Wittmer visits with her children David and Mary Elizabeth at the Davison home after a midweek gathering.
Rev Barker gave an engaging talk on Sunday school work last Wednesday evening. Mrs J D Dayton’s accident halts a busy and active woman’s efforts. The Queen Esther Circle meets at Miss Margaret Bauer’s home Saturday afternoon with Miss Wilda Augustine leading. Floy Owen will report on the West Liberty convention. Weather notes hint at winter’s counterattack before spring fully returns.
The piece argues for farmer support of a broad shipbuilding program to boost wartime and postwar freight capacity. It links cheap ocean freight to higher farm prices, urges farmers to help fund ships, and notes Germany plans to equip postwar commerce while the U.S. builds freighters to aid Europe.
All churches in Greece must pay a specified percent of annual income and monasteries 1 percent under a new tax plan. Penalties are provided for tax evasion.
A concise quote from Huxley on reducing ignorance and misery in one’s sphere of influence. The remark urges readers to improve their small corner of the world through personal effort and responsibility.
Virginia Evans Sewall recounts a sailor known as the man torpedoed twice. He fled from Gloversville to Philadelphia, joined a ship named the Glitterine, survived a torpedo strike near Archangel, and was picked up by a lifeboat after leaping from a sinking vessel.
Health ad promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle liver and bowels stimulant. It claims 90 percent of sickness comes from inactivity of the bowels and liver and promises renewed energy and buoyancy. Sold in 10c and 25c boxes by all druggists.
A narrator describes being held for three days and nights with almost no food, water only, until rescue by an 8.8 Giltry. Afterward a girl was torpedoed five hours later. A questioning officer asks a teen about his age and he confesses he claims eighteen but is actually seventeen.
New York Mrs. Mary E. Capes seventy seven recalls Civil War era days while knitting a sweater for service members each week. She occasionally adds a woolen helioset to her regular task and says it is merely her duty.
A captured robin eats fifty earthworms daily and grows rapidly, while a pair of European jays feed their brood by consuming half a million caterpillars in a season. The nestling’s constant hunger illustrates remarkable appetite and growth.
Paint and varnish can be removed from hands by rubbing grease or lard into the skin, then washing with warm water and soap. The method outlines a simple household technique for cleaning artist or worker hands.
Dr. Finley will head Red Cross work in Palestine with support from John J. Piney New York education commissioner as unofficial head. Plans include four medical units to combat typhus cholera and other diseases and the establishment of a fully equipped hospital.
Movie star Miss Lillian Gish urges Liberty bonds after recounting wartime horrors. She describes mothers at a schoolyard gate, bombed classrooms, London wreckage, and nightly bombardment to emphasize the need to support the war effort. The speech ends with a call to purchase Liberty bonds.
A persuasive wartime notice urges men to avoid spending and to support the Liberty bond drive. It emphasizes refrain from personal purchases and to invest in government bonds as others participate.
A boy named Lawrence watches a man slip on an icy street and jokes that the man needs skid chains. The moment captures a simple humorous reminder about winter safety and vehicle equipment.
Tillie Clinger notes she hates taking dictation from her new boss because when he chews tobacco he cannot talk and when he does not chew he cannot think.
A reflection on the joy of inspiring others through acts of right doing. The piece argues that true life success comes from spreading courage and strength to people we touch with our deeds.
The article notes Old Christmas Day, kept on January 6 by Russia and the Greek church under the Julian calendar, differing from the Gregorian date by 18 days and shifted New Year to January 13.
The Observer of Events and Things muses on whether a bowlegged soldier becomes knock-kneed when facing the enemy the first time. The piece blends humor and curiosity about military nerves and physical responses under stress.
The rattlesnake rattle comes from a single epidermal spine at the tail. In youth, the rattle begins as skin over the last caudal vertebra, forming the first stage of the rattle.
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