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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
4
A historical speech reflects German complaints that the Allies refuse peace terms, arguing Germany seeks a peace based on victory and spoils. The Kaiser alleges Allied violation of laws while portraying Germany as innocent, urging resistance to what he calls Allied aims to humiliate and crush Germany.
Poem reflects on passing seasons and impending victory. The narrator notes summer fading, compares time to Father Time, and expresses confidence that life will move toward peace. Imagery includes animals and a hopeful pledge that justice will prevail.
A wartime speaker denounces Germany for starting the conflict to seize lands and wealth. He contrasts German boasts with Allied suffering, likening Germany to a highwayman and warning of retaliatory consequences if symmetry were reversed. The rhetoric frames Germany as the aggressor and promotes retribution.
A whimsical note on flies around the office and street cleanup. The poem imagines a fly perched on a war map in a newspaper office, reflecting on the town’s layout and a backdrop of No Man's Land as it flies away to seek a new stand.
A columnist considers light notes on flies but finds hundreds roosting on his desk and typewriter in the office this morning, prompting a shift in approach to the piece.
A three year old Irene listens to a heated debate about guardianship for her grandfather. The next morning she asks with curiosity if “they” obtained a guardianship, showing how the family argument unsettled her.
Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt spoke at the Illinois statehood centennial in Springfield urging total Americanism and rapid war effort. He warned pacifists and internationalists, pressed universal military training, and called for a large draft, massive production, and a swift, decisive victory with preparations for postwar social problems.
A blunt wartime prose piece contrasts pleasure of defeating enemies with killing flies, noting future generations benefit as each fly killed reduces pests. The passage uses stark, graphic language to convey victory framing via a fly-swatter metaphor.
The passage traces how cockpit evolved from a shipboard space for surgeon and purser to a seaplane cockpit for pilots and observers, and how honors for air heroes show the cockpit as a symbol of war and mortality across Europe. The term's shift mirrors changing centers of conflict and national identity.
Passengers from Rotterdam describe a shift in Dutch views toward the United States as American actions seizing Dutch ships during the war displace German pressure. They note tighter food controls, high prices, and coal shortages affecting Holland while German deserters seek refuge.
A local testimonial notes indigestion relief from Chamberlains Tablets, praising stomach strength and overall tone. The ad cites Mrs. D. 8. Dart of Skaneateles, N.Y. and lists Lemmon's Drug Store as the place to buy.
Chicago’s Lexington Hotel assigns 250 employees to move at 120 paces per minute during work hours as a wartime efficiency measure. General manager Herman Mack urges other employers to adopt the pace to speed service, claiming it saves tasks and boosts morale as the nation gears up for victory.
The five pointed star, used since ancient Greece, appears on each package of Chamberlain's Tablets. These tablets have restored hundreds to health from indigestion, biliousness, or constipation. Try them for prompt relief. For sale by Lemmon's Drug Store.
A terse OCR fragment shows times and numbers, unclear context, with entries like 6:39 p m 9450 m 8:49 a m. The text is incomplete and lacks identifiable names or events.
The tepaty bean is a new cultivation in California, a hardy bush legume from Mexico with years of popularity in New Mexico and Arizona. It tolerates extreme temperatures and drought and has high nutritive value for growing conditions in arid areas.
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