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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1918
Page
4
In a light verse from Life magazine, sisters and relatives fill wartime labor roles from bell hops to taxi drivers and elevator operators. The poem humorously imagines who will resume traditional duties when veterans return.
The 1918 wheat reports show a large U S surplus plus sizable imports from Canada India Australia and Argentina boosting Allied supplies. If transport opens up, about one billion bushels could reach the armies and relief countries, signaling a powerful wartime food frontend and potential price effects.
A WWI era verse laments wartime shortages and German influence. The speaker recalls prewar wealth and comforts, now facing rationing and hardship under Kaiser Bill. The poem links personal deprivation to the Kaiser’s reach and calls for action to remove him.
A poem by O J P McEvoy to the Chicago Tribune advises a son that life is hard and competitive, not a holiday. It urges self-assertion, fair play, and perseverance, noting that the mother is the truest friend and that outcomes matter less than how one runs the race.
Draft boards in Waterloo Iowa ordered thirteen newspaper employees to switch to productive work or face class 1 draft. Washington clarified newspapers are never nonproductive and should not be forced into other vocations. The situation shows boards overreach, but newspapers remain essential to morale and national effort.
The Sioux City Journal notes large numbers of news department and mechanical staff volunteering for military and naval service. It argues the Waterloo board’s actions reflect a broader struggle to hold permanent staff, a situation the paper says is largely beyond control and somewhat comical.
The Y M C A orders 300 million sheets of writing paper with envelopes for soldiers. 200 million letterheads for home camps and 100 million for American Expeditionary Forces will be provided at no cost in huts with pens and writing surfaces. The program includes 12 million letters weekly, 25 million envelopes for overseas use, and shipments to Allied forces in Europe.
Iowa stands third among states for June in war savings stamp sales and ranks similarly for total campaign sales. The state reports 9,321 secured agencies, 116 percent of its 7,922 quota, with 44 counties yet to report. June sales reached 4 672 889.70 dollars and per capita 1 96, while total campaign sales hit 17 4138 420.60 dollars and 7 32 per capita. An honor roll lists twelve counties with no stamps cashed.
A London report surveys wartime invention fantasies with magnets, aerosols, and decoy schemes. Proposals include balloons, fleas in shells, cement hail, live wire rockets, cormorants to attack Krupp chimneys, and even a lawnmower tank.
The narrative follows Pat O Brien from enlistment in the Royal Flying Corps to capture, with chapters detailing battlefield feats, flight over Germany, desertion from a prison camp, and a perilous escape through Luxembourg and Belgium guided by Huyliger. The text notes a Belgian hideout in a deserted house with a vast wine cellar and no bed awaiting him.
Portland place native Howard B Wylly recalls gas attack and German gun crews chained to machine guns at the Marne front He describes heavy losses including loss of limbs and mass casualties among transported troops several hundred sent to Walter Reed hospital and Fort McHenry for treatment
The article extols big game fishing with rod and line, highlighting tuna as among the sport’s most thrilling species. It notes tunas commonly reach 200 pounds and, when hooked, can flee at high speed. A hooked tuna has been known to tow a boat for 14 hours before escaping.
Worries are likened to smoked glasses that distort perception of the world. The sun remains bright and the sky blue, but gloom colors all sights. Readers are urged to discard worries and view reality plainly to decide to abandon such preconceptions in the future.
The narrator endures a bare room after the German guards sweep a house clean and is left to sleep on the floor. Huyliger returns with breakfast and shifts to asking how far O'Brien will go to compensate him for the risks taken, offering money in return for loyalty. O'Brien pledges gratitude but scopes the situation, noting he has only a few hundred francs and will try to repay kindness upon return.
A speaker pressures an unnamed man for immediate payment in pounds, insisting on a large sum. The man eyes a high figure, comparing ambition to a wartime leader, while the speaker smiles and questions the seriousness of the request. The dialogue hints at coercion and transactional intent.
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