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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1918
Page
4
The piece argues that military discipline improves boys from harum scarum behavior to form and steadiness. It contrasts army rank dynamics with democracy and asserts universal military training will mature youth, lessen dependence, and strengthen appreciation for home without destroying affection.
A poem urges workers to avoid slacking during wartime. It uses humorous rhymes to warn that laziness harms the boss and nation, promising honor for diligent effort and loyalty as the war progresses toward victory.
The passage argues for timely independence of a son from home. It suggests his first move should occur into a setting that instills discipline, order, physical self care, respect for authority, and broad industry, combined with intellectual training under skilled guidance. The outcome should improve current imbalanced parental practices.
Washington reports the house ways and means committee near completion of the 8 billion dollar revenue bill with excess profits and income taxes short of target. The luxury tax, set at 10 and 20 percent on select items, may expand to furniture and chinaware. Taxes largely take effect upon enactment with timing varying by tax type.
The item profiles James Pershing, brother of Gen John J Pershing. A traveling salesman who resembles his famous brother, he talks of traveling to France soon to “break my brother's silence.” He mentions one son in the army and another awaiting a call.
After N Widlow a Negro shot and killed Chief of Police Mall and wounded City Clerk George De Young he escaped and was found running by Billy Parker an aviator flying over the town. A posse of 500 captured the man and turned him over to the sheriff. The crowd burned the Negro section except the home of an elderly Black woman Mull was shot while trying to arrest Widlow on a charge of wife beating.
Excerpted memoir recounts Pat O Brien’s escape from German lines after being shot down in France. He navigates through Belgium with a forged passport scheme, faces a risky confrontation over his real passport, and reflects on Belgian complicity and wartime moral peril.
The narrator endures five days in hiding under German occupation, watching soldiers from a door keyhole and scavenging for scraps at night. Unable to speak Flemish or German, he contemplates escape to Holland as he paces a narrow floor path seeking a way to freedom.
Corrected timetable entries for C. M. & St. P. lines show westbound No. 25 and eastbound No. 26 details with local and passenger numbers. The fragment includes a personal note by W. E. B. Lindsa about pacing the room for hours and covering miles while waiting for Huy liger in an incomplete tale marked to be continued.
A dampened piece of flannel with Chamberlain's Liniment bound on the back provides relief often better than a plaster and costs much less. For sale by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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