Library hours trimmed as reading room features end
The City Council rules the library remains open for final hours but patrons must take books and leave. Reading room services are eliminated for now as a precaution and not a hardship to patrons.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1918
Page
6
American Patents in England Shrinking Under Plans
Report outlines that only about 900 American patents will remain in England, with the rest to be reassigned or relinquished under new official plans. The measure affects imports and manufacturing protections, signaling a major shift in wartime industrial policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Local ads note services and prices across town
Osteopaths chiropractors and druggists advertise office and contact details. Residents report travel, visits, and business trips while buyers seek cash for hides furs and stock. A farm auction is announced and a sale at Shafer's promises cows brood sows and shoats.
Local notices and ads from The Evening Journal
Local items advertise shoe sellers drugstore products and a frame shop. A letter from Private W.64 Moran notes service in France. Corporal Clarence Babb visits home from Great Lakes hospital for furlough. Kensler's sale offers dairy cows and equipment on December 7 in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.64, Moran
Company K
Washington
Co. A
France
Clarence Babb
M. J Holden
Great Lakes Hospital
Fratece
Marriage Licenses Issued In Brighton And Local Area
An item lists marriage licenses issued today to Arthur Nicola and Mabel Snider of Brighton, and to Fred Kephart and Cecile Hopping of the same community. It also notes influenza quarantine at Monmouth College and town, plus assorted local notices and ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Nicola
Mabel Snider
Brighton
Fred Kephart
Cecile Hopping
Ruth Pierce
Louise Livingston
Martine
Melaughlin
Evelyn
Eldridge
Rex Benz
Monmouth College
Monmouth
Ousting of Doctor Solf by Berlin and Bavaria
The executive committees of Greater Berlin and Bavaria reach an understanding to resign German Foreign Secretary Doctor Solf immediately. They demand his replacement by a consistent opponent of the aid system and policy. They also oppose Mathis Breberger’s participation in the peer talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater Berlin
Doctor Self
Mathis Breberger
Goeewan
Sugar restrictions lifted for household and service use
Washington announces removal of all sugar controls for household oil and restaurant use. The wheat flour substitute rule had already been dropped, easing food conservation duties. Voluntary conservation remains in effect and other wartime measures continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Food Administration
Woodrow
Food Survey Results Show Wheat Stocks Jump on Nov 1 1918
Washington reports a dramatic rise in commercial wheat stocks as of November 1 1918 totaling 274 825 010 bushels. The report from the Department of Agriculture covers 12 538 firms elevators warehouses mills and wholesale dealers with higher holdings than a year earlier and outlines related cereal flour corn meal and other staple stocks and percentages from the 1917 baseline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Department of Agriculture
Chicago Board of Trade
Department
Wurvey
Local Patient Praises Foley Kidney Pills for Relief
J. W. Beck of Coraopolis Pennsylvania reports severe nighttime pain preventing lying down. After trying three adlectors he began Foley Kidney Pills three weeks ago and notes dramatic improvement sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy adyt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane
Sanol
Lemmon's Pharmacy
J. W. Beck
Coraopolis
Foley
Lemmon’s
Adyt
Increase for Steel Men Ten Percent Raise in Shipyard Pay
A government taber ad announces a ten percent raise in piece work pay for riveters chippers caulkers drillers and refiners in Atlantic coast and Great Lakes steel shipyards. The decision affects Abhintic coast Delaware River Gulf coast and Great Lakes yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Coast
Great Lakes
Wishington
Abhintic Coast
Delaware River
Gulf Coast
Nat Goodwin Loses an Eye in Emergency Operation
Nat C. Goodwin, the actor, underwent an operation in New York to remove one eye after an injury caused by an error in an eyelash product. The damage to the eye arose from mining accident related effects and unclear medical error.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nat Goodwin
New York
Nat C. Gomiwin
Tote Philosophy Chronicle Glitches in Vague Style
Fragmentary note speaks in cryptic tone about philosophy and a critique of polished rhetoric. It references clashing ideas and a stubborn stickiness in thought, with unclear attribution or concrete context.
Monopolizes It Herself in a Domestic Tale
A fragmented clipping presents a domestic scene where a wife dominates conversation while her husband remains largely silent. The piece hints at marital imbalance and social dynamics within a household.
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