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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1919
Page
5
Governor W. L. Harding outlines a 1919 plan centered on preparedness through education and industry. He urges better teacher pay and year round employment, English as the primary school language, and community cooperation including a state marketing department to aid farmers with grading, markets, and price signaling.
If you are bloated or lazy or have the blues headaches palpitation billoneness bad breath gas constipation or indigestion you will feel better in the morning if you take an Foley Cathartic Tablet tonight. This is a wholesome laxative and cleansing physic that acts without inconvenience wriping or nausea Lemmon's Pharmacy.
MEMPHIS Tenn Jan 3 Park field at Millington Tenn near here designated as a government flying instruction field Major Simons commandant at Parkfield reports from Washington Kelley field No 2 San Antonio Tex and fields at Dallas Tex and Riverside Cal to be used as preliminary training schools others to be retained include Arcadia Fla and Houston Tex as advanced pursuit schools and Rockwell field San Diego Cal as advanced gunnery school
Porm Colonizers Bureau in Washington announces a home seekers bureau established by the railway administration. It provides free information on farming stock raising gardening and related occupations in western and southern states. J L Edwards will lead the agricultural information service with aides J F Farrell Seagraves and Croxton in respective cities.
Four Denver Tramway lines were halted during rush hour as stock yard and industrial workers refused the 7 cent fare approved by the state utilities commission. Conductors stopped trains, and on the Aurora line workers ejected the crew and drove six cars into town before abandoning them.
Holmes Cowper reports a letter from Lieut Col Roy Forde detailing follow up actions against the German army after the armistice. Forde describes mass killings in Namur Denant and other occupied towns, recalling families torn apart and civilians shot, with harsh judgement of German soldiers. He recounts travels through Vielsalm Paris Brussels and Spa, and hopes for return home as the fifth winter ends.
Newspaper style advertisement offering a trial package from Foley & Co for coughs colds and croup plus kidney pills and cathartic tablets via Lemon's Pharmacy. Readers are instructed to mail a cutout slip with name and address to receive the trial items.
On January 4 the plan proposes giving every buyer of a bond a souvenir from the French Belgian or Italian battle fronts. Salvage corps have gathered thousands of tons of military equipment. while much is junk it could be distributed to loyal supporters as a keepsake of the expedition.
Paris on January 4 Dr Livingstone Ferrand president of the Rockefeller antituberculosis commission was named an officer of the Legion of Honor on the proposal of Capt Andre Tedieu.
War dominated 1918 as the United States marshaled men, food, and industry for victory. Costs ran high, but America’s strength and unity forged a postwar path, with wealth and crops reaching record levels and a ready market abroad to rebuild Europe.
The text argues that those in government control should pursue conservative liquidity and sound credit conditions. It cites past achievements and the country’s vast wealth and external needs as reasons the people will not falter as peace returns and normal business resumes.
Dairy firms face seasonal dips as grass wanes. B. A. Thomas' Stock Remedy provides concentrated ingredients to mimic green feed, promising more and better milk from the same feed. Sherman Bros. advertisement.
Sergeant L A Corgett at Camp Fremont California writes of four drivers eighty three motorcycles and fifty Dodge Brothers cars. He praises the cars for reliability under harsh roads and high speed patrols from rough country to fast runs to Frisco or San Jose in under an hour.
Judge Arnold cites the annual juvenile court report showing nearly 11,000 of 14,474 cases are repeaters. War conditions partly blamed as mothers work and older siblings enlist, yet the judge says the institution is not a failure and many cases are not hopeless.
Oscar Thorson a well known Des Moines sport promoter announces he is through with the sport promoting game citing other business interests. He mentions a proposed legal matter as part of his decision.
Thorson said he supports the idea of a boxing law but will not take part in the movement. He added the wrestling game is too risky and hard to make profitable.
A Rock Island train stop near Mount Pleasant yielded forty eight pints of whisky found in baggage of eight stock raisers named Hansen Brown Trieb Huey Buseman Brush Schoenwitter and Schoenwitter. Deputy marshals arrested them for transporting intoxicating liquor into Davenport Iowa. The men said they were returning from Chicago.
The article notes that stone ships are not a new concept. It cites 1849 Frenchman Lambot launching a concrete boat and mentions numerous experiments and successful floats since, including long usage of concrete barges by the Dutch and Italians.
United States marshals took control of Kansas City Railway street cars and property under Judge Pollock order after motormen and conductors struck since December 11. Deputized armed trainmen will operate trains. city police protection ends.
In Carnarvon Wales on January 8 Premier Lloyd George declared that democracy now offers a chance for reform in the British government. He said he would not remain prime minister if the government does not fulfill its promises and would seek another mandate from the people.
An ad touts Eatonic tablets from H L Kramer as a quick remedy for indigestion and bloating. It claims neutralizing gases eases sour stomach heartburn and belching after meals and promises harmless relief with one or two tablets after eating.
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