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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1919
Page
4
The fragment indicates an advance payment term of sixty six weeks or months related to a mutual arrangement. No clear dates or parties are identifiable. Further readable text is needed to determine exact scope and entities involved.
Dr. Harry A. Garfield former federal fuel administrator resigns over the plan to settle coal disputes. He argues the appointed commission favors miners and operators at the public’s expense and could let them override public interests. He warns the plan yields a surrender to self serving factions.
Poem notes Walt Mason raises price for poems to a quarter and declares a strike. He abandons muse and lyre to protest perceived wrongs, vows not to write elegies or odes until his grievances are settled, and jokes about hunger and change.
The mining wage dispute sees Dr. Garfield urge a 14 percent rise for miners after initial demands of 60 percent. Operators offered 20 percent and later 31 percent, but Garfield insists the public pay must not rise, prompting resignation to protect public interests amid a stalemate.
Perry Chief notes the shift in tone as Mr. McAdoo faces backlash over his claim that coal operators earned vast profits once prices are pegged by him and his allies. The remark provokes renewed scrutiny of pricing power and policy.
Davenport Democrat notes that Clemenceau could travel to London by steamer with no light doused or concern about mines or submarines, something deemed impossible a year and a half earlier.
The Scandal company performed before about one hundred in a warm noisy theater with poor heating. Coates Gwynne led with strong humor aided by Ebba Andrus. The plot felt unreal yet amused. the production ranked as the best show of the season to date despite a small audience.
The Marshalltown Times says the country should be frankly told about the president's physical condition and kept informed with all the facts, emphasizing the public's right to know.
Des Moines men Rev T C McKelvey D D and Rev R W Thompson D D will address at United Presbyterian church West Chester on the New World Movement at 7 30 pm Wednesday December 17. They meet the congregational committee at 7 pm at the same location.
A clipped discussion notes the enduring Mexican question with recurring emphasis on economic resources. The fragment hints at speculation over whether Mexico would still exist as a question if gold oil and silver vanished.
J D Glasgow elected chairman explains why the county chapter must reorganize after war needs and debts. He cites a $3400 county share of a $20 million national obligation, new executive secretary Lydia Eicher, possible county nurse, and a January 15 membership drive to restore the Red Cross’s local leadership and services.
An old health note advocates daily inside bathing by drinking hot water with limestone phosphate to cleanse the bowels. It links indigestible waste to toxins in the blood and suggests this practice prevents headaches colds biliousness constipation foul breath and other ailments by cleaning the digestive tract. It promotes lime stone phosphate purchase from drug stores and asserts skin cleansing is less effective than internal cleansing.
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