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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1918
Page
4
Irregular OCR text fragment outlines pricing in advance options and wall pricing with scattered numbers. Due to illegibility, readable pieces indicate a prepaid or rental listing with monthly or wall price points. The readable terms lack clear entities or a coherent event.
The Geaaenaabitel Christmas day Journal will observe its usual custom of closing for the Christmas holiday.
In a brisk winter column a writer jokes about germs dying in the cold and recalls harsher days when hog troughs iced over. The piece muses on weather, health fears, and changing household habits from curdled milk to modern milk and food scraps.
Fragmentary OCR passage shows speaker ABE MARTIN venting frustration about the President’s difficulty finding virtuous men to appoint. The text is garbled, with missing segments and missing context, yielding little actionable detail beyond general sentiment on governance.
Poem envisions a postwar Christmas as people sing carols under a hopeful winter sky. It recalls past wars and cruelty, celebrates renewed peace, and invites all to join in cheerful, buoyant caroling from door to door with festive imagery of bells, trees, and family.
The speaker recalls chopping ice from the hog trough and vivid, graphic recollections of butchery and waste. Grandpa’s saying about killing a dog frames a bittersweet holiday memory, with sensory details of colors and decayed debris.
The blizzard ends isolation for flu patients and eases street congestion. A grocery deliveryman near the square declares he is going home, signaling relief. The Muscatine Journal-Tribune plans a new modern plant to welcome back eight employees. Frederick Wilhelm notes his soldiers’ affection for him.
Georges Laygues, the French minister of marine, was among the officials who accompanied the delegation to Brest to meet President Woodrow Wilson. The encounter highlighted naval cooperation and Franco American relations during the visit.
Iowa City December 24 All that remains of the student army training corps is the headquarters company which will file final reports and men still ill or recovering. The December payroll of 25000 dollars is en route from Washington so discharged men receive pay soon. A large feed at the Hotel Jefferson honored each discharged company, today for the hand company and the jackies.
The Civil Service Commission outlines plans to re employ thousands of civilian war workers who will be dismissed as needs shrink. Eligible workers with under three years service may be entered on re employment registers for one year. The commission seeks Labor Department help to place surplus workers in private employment where suitable.
The Washington Iowa Board of Health issues a December 24 1918 order expanding quarantine rules for Spanish influenza. It lifts school and church prohibitions with conditions including nurse supervision in schools and banned gatherings, mandating masks and isolation, with penalties and enforcement guidance.
Food in Labrador Greenland and the Faroe Islands features reindeer stew with roent waterfowl, bear meat or walrus stew. By time a taste may be acquired for those items if frozen long enough to be of a grateful spirit. Coarse bread, codfish, cranberry jam and dried blueberries help matters.
Advertisements promote Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as effective for winter colds. The copy asserts the remedy's merit and long-standing family use, urging readers to follow directions on each bottle and visit Lemmon's Pharmacy for purchase.
A clipped comment contrasts sugar rules with a critic who adds three spoons to coffee and leaves two to sweeten dishwater. The Hampton Chronicle cites a voter who would justify sinking German ships and questions new naval funding. Cedar Rapids Republican.
In Murcia a number of sulphur deposits exist with La Sanita de Lorca near Lorca highlighted as highly productive. The deposit bed extends about ten kilometers in length and one to two kilometers in width.
In Washington County Iowa Milo Shatla files a petition against Mary Bradford Louck & Boehme seeking 252 dollars plus interest costs and attorney fees on a promissory Chevrolet note. A temporary injunction is sought to restrain delivery of the automobile. Default if not appeared by Jan 6 1919. Attorneys Micher Livingston Michen.
The report highlights widespread use of Sloan's Liniment to ease darting pains in the sciatic nerve, neuritis, rheumatic twinges, and various injuries. It emphasizes quick relief, positive results, and economy as key factors in its broad acceptance.
Wrod W Mulkley of Oregon serves a 48 day unexpired term after election to fill the late Senator Lanelle wie’s seat. He resigned December 15 when Governor Write appointed Renater McMary to the office, with McMary elected to the long term starting March 4.
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