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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1918
Page
8
A Goldwyn drama screens Thursday at the Fox Theatre highlighting women’s loyalty love and family ties. The narrative centers on mothers daughters and lovers without war battles or spy action as a “wonderful girl” inspires a “wonderful boy” to build a better world.
A jumble of ads notes Crail's rugs Fox and Dewey shoes and Majestic ranges by Geo. W. Stewart with a $8.75 speedometer deal from J F. Duffy Ford Station. Mentions Leachman Pease Weston visiting from Bloomfield and M E Ebner heading to Des Moines for the state fair.
Banks in Washington will close at noon next Thursday August 22 to allow employees time to attend the Chaulauqua program featuring Private Peat.
The magazine announces a temporary price raise from $1.50 per year to $2.00 after October 1, applying to subscribers. The change affects all current and new memberships with the revised annual rate taking effect on the specified date.
Nita Belle McKeon, agent for Journal of 59 Red, invites renewals and subscriptions. She also handles renewals for other magazines and promotes clubs good until October 1st.
The Columbus Junction fair secures the Washington Concert Band for three days. Local youths expect a strong repertoire and the music will enhance the fair program for neighboring residents.
Russell and Miller visited Washington with Mrs John Heaton and her husband. Russell is a Wesleyan University professor in Delaware Ohio with ten years at the school and five with Boston University. He admired the city but found the chautauqua small next to a larger Red Cross program and praised speaker Miss Van Gastel as a powerful personality and the finest talk by a woman in Red Cross work.
A reflective aphorism notes that experience yields wisdom, while conflict and hardship create vast, empty landscapes of struggle. The line suggests learning through adversity and the value of real-world trials over comfort.
Shortage of Ford cars prompts sale of speedometers at 8.75 Regular price 11.25. J P Duffy Ford Station 561 Lead special club offer for Delin eator and Everybody's magazines 1 year for 2 00. Nita Belle Meckoon Journal of 59 Red ad. Rest of items note travel and patients with Sanol and Sand remedies and several family notices from Pleasant Hill and Wellston with local guards and Ammunition train movement from Blue Island.
A string of short items lists visits, trips, and calls to Davenport Des Moines Cedar Rapids Chicago West Liberty Keota Muscatine Iowa City and Minneapolis. Residents attend fairs visit relatives or plan trips by car or lake voyage. several church and mission activities are mentioned along with health recovery and military training updates.
The article notes Houdon the French sculptor (1741 1828) who created the St. Bruno statue in Rome and visited America in 1785 at Franklin’s invitation to cast Washington, now at Richmond. Lafayette praised the likeness as the best image of the American Patriot. St Bruno, a Trappist, followed silence as rule, and Pope Clement XVI quipped that he would speak if not bound by order.
A humorous Kansas City Star note asserts men have stopped scratching matches on their trousers since it leaves a mark and predicts they will realize matches likewise affect walls as well.
Lawrence W. Duwa son of J Louis Duwa from ten miles north of Washington is among the first Washington county draftees sent to France. He serves in Company B 55th Engineers and helps build railways for American troops. In a July 28 letter he describes rest camps, farming scenery, English walnuts, French wagons, no autos, and struggling steam engines. He notes eggs at 80 cents a dozen and gasoline at $1.25 a gallon and hopes for an American paper press to reveal German setbacks.
A local want ad in the Journal promises quick sale of goods or services. The notice specifies items available and contact details for buyers and sellers.
A school notice informs students planning to attend high school this fall to call at the high school building next week for classifying and arranging next year’s work. Grades are scheduled by day with times, and new entrants should bring their past year records to the superintendent’s office for classification.
Call at or telephone the superintendent's office Friday afternoon August 23 to offer rooms for boarders. The school assumes no responsibility but will provide information to any student or teacher who may need it.
Students aiming for college must secure copies of their records this week before the school term begins. Officials warn of a rush as enrollment opens.
A new gnat, order Hemiptera, family Redavidae, genus Amultus Istel, is identified as yielding musk. The insect is widespread in the Australian bush and described as emit ting a musky odor similar to musk glands.
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