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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1919
Page
8
A note urges cleaning and oiling a typewriter, claiming daily use and improved efficiency after service. The author offers to pick up and return the machine, asking to call before it is forgotten, with the phone number 497 blue included.
Regular meeting set for seven sharp with regular order of business. Several petitions to be received and, after, work in the Past Master and Most Excellent Master degrees for several candidates. L D Langworthy H P urges good attendance of Companions.
An agent advertises subscription services with price lists for clubs and magazines. Readers are invited to call 50 Red or write to the Journal. The notice names Wita Belle McKoon as agent.
Local brief notes Daniel Graber was a visitor in town yesterday. City taxi and bus line service is advertised with phone contact for day and night calls.
In the Evening Journal ads Fox and Dewey advertise shoes while a Chautauqua event runs August 12 to 21. City Bus and Taxi Line offers baggage transport day and night. Miss Ferne Tierney from the Keota area visits town en route to Chicago. Cream butter and eggs priced. straw hats discounted at Chambers Clothes Shop.
Ida Rathmel visits Davenport as Verlee Reece travels to Keota to visit a friend. Chambers Clothes Shop offers summer suits at 9.95. Goodyear belts and Mason’s stock. Various residents travel or visit relatives in Rock Island Mason City Brigh ton Minneapolis Chicago and Davenport. G A R encampment trip discussed as well as Mennonite children program. Fishermen report fifteen pounds of cat fish from Main creek outing.
A jumble of short items lists visits, travel, and ads. Names include Miss Clara Woodburn Miss Ireta Pauls Miss Rhua Armstrong Miss Hazel Siberts Miss Hattie Nichols and Mrs. Amos Plummer. Mentions of trips to Chicago Des Moines Grinnell Keota Oskaloosa and a St. Louis vacation. Also brief commerce notes on rugs bargains straw hats and a spring pig sale.
A promotional notice from an authorized representative invites readers to subscribe to magazines and receive special rates on clubs. It mentions a contact method by phone and mail and names Nita Belle McKoon as the authorized representative.
Professor Cranium muses his memory course could award Stewpidd a diploma if he paid for lessons. Dr Hackem-Uppe asks for the trouble, noting Stewpidd’s nearly perfect record as a student.
New York inventors have patented a coal handling system that cuts coal in a mine pulverizes it mixes with water and pumps slurry to any destination where it is dried. The process aims to save costs of handling and transportation.
A jury panel of fifty petit jurors was drawn by the county auditor recorder and clerk of courts this morning at the courthouse. The September term opens Sept 4 with Judge D W Hamilton of Sigourney presiding. list includes jurors from Washington Kalona Brighton Wellman Ainsworth Riverside Wayland and other locales.
Mrs. Kate Buckley, superintendent of Washington Boulevard hospital, is at home on vacation. Several residents visit relatives in Minnesota, Chicago, and New York. Major John Steck arrives from overseas. Dr. J. M. Wishart returns from a five week trip with family. Mrs Wishart mourns her mother Mrs. Wallace who died from nervous strain after her husband’s death five weeks earlier.
European coal mine owners compress air at the surface and pipe it underground to cool air far below the surface. This system enables miners to work longer shifts by maintaining breathable temperatures in the mine workings.
Special to Evening Journal reports Representative Blandon of Texas introduced a joint resolution declaring a state of anarchy exists in the United States. It would authorize the president to free interstate mails and traffic from interference and to protect citizens and property rights.
The Board of Supervisors will meet next Monday. All claims should be filed no later than Saturday.
After Monday all bills due Mr Maplethorpe will be left with T A Michels L E Maplethorpe.
The article notes hoofed animals in Palestine include fallow deer and gazelles, with wild boar still common. It claims Behemoth and hippopotamus were biblical companions, though extinct long ago, and identifies the hyrax as Palestine’s coney, yet asserts no rabbits exist in the region.
An old cornered baboon fights off attackers by grabbing the nearest limb and tearing away skin, killing several hunting dogs before it yields.
The quote from Senator Squash of Squeegee mocks members who rush to action without study. He jokes that the kind of feller who asks What’s trumps? always wants the next motion before the house.
The text describes Royal Society Pack age outfits and a stock of Royal Society Package Goods including Baby Dresses Children s Dresses Rompers Dressing Lacques Boudoir Caps and more. It notes Royal Society Embroidery Flosses as highly regarded by experienced needle workers as the finest cotton weaving product.
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