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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1918
Page
8
All coats velours plushes and fur coats marked one-fourth off. A few tailor-made suits available at half price. Silk and wool dresses reduced one-fourth. Tailormade skirts in silk or wool one-fourth off. Rain coats ten percent off. Wool dress goods ten percent off.
Local items note Dougherty Bros offerings including menswear and work shirts. Des Moines and Keota visits are mentioned along with Mrs Alberson returning from Goldfield. Henry Steel returns from Camp Pike after discharge. 25 milch cows to be sold at Chilcote barn in Washington on Saturday December 14 at 1 30 with Macon as auctioneer.
Partnership Bowman and Knupp ends December 20 and will be succeeded by Bowman and Wilsis. Creditors are urged to call and settle accounts promptly with Bowman and RnuIy, Pattewd.
Fragments show a mix of business ads for picture framing at Graves Studio and neckwear prices, osteopath and chiropractor contact details, and local residents Miss Helen Morton and Mr. and Mrs. W G Stewart traveling to Burlington and Chicago. Purchases of hides and furs with a hotel phone contact are also listed.
A quirky item notes Christmas greetings and a request for a combination syringe and hot water bottle priced at 64 cents. The fragment hints at a period consumer item or ad style phrase. Names and places are absent in the readable text.
Local items include McNamara's phono graph records and picture frames with a call to bring work in early. Notices of returning residents, family illnesses, and a death in Pittsburg followed by interment in Davenport. Also updates on high school construction progress and military discharge notices.
A white metal praised for brilliant polish and tarnish resistance, allegedly an alloy of bistruth mercury tin zinc and copper, has been patented.
The line proclaims that true riches lie in having enough to be charitable. It emphasizes contentment and generosity as the measure of wealth rather than material excess.
The Imprint urges unity in Crawfordsville churches proposing a community church as a first step to democracy and universal happiness. It argues a union meeting could unite congregations and reduce factional scrambling. It invites reader input on the townwide church merger idea.
A Mabie quotation on creativity and inner freedom. It argues that true art comes from a childlike freshness and a sense of possession of life beyond outward works. The text emphasizes inward joy, peace, and the belief that life is greater than its productions, with the artist as a man first.
The text notes the town of Gaza with the Al Mintar watchtower to its east and a mythic claim that Gaza invented early merchant clocks. It mentions nearby routes to Jaffa, ancient olive trees over a thousand years old, and a legend about sand clocks used in mosques.
A brief reflection on the challenge of sustaining kindness, noting that unkind thoughts tend to emerge in speech or tone. The passage urges clear, consistent kindness rather than hidden cruelty, and emphasizes character over outward display.
Dick Lindsay of Jackson township learned knitting and made a sweater for Don Wylie in the ordnance department at Camp Cody. Wylie praised the gift and noted the community effort from Jackson township women and men alike supporting soldiers overseas.
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