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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
4
A light form of flu threatens to become epidemic in several cities though no cause for alarm is found. Health rules emphasize prevention, hygiene, and personal care with directives from Chicago including walk to work, wash hands, avoid coughers, and seek medical help if symptoms worsen.
The poem critiques landlords and rent with a narrator who longs for home ownership. It contrasts paying rent with owning a home and imagines the landlord as uncaring while depicting hardship and unfairness in tenancy. The speaker suggests self‑ownership as preferable to perpetual rent.
General Pershing promotes The Living Memorial as a practical tribute to soldiers. He opposes granite monuments, favoring community buildings, hospitals, or memorial trees that benefit the living. The Burlington Hawkeye urges readers to consider the idea and act on it.
Public guidance urges staying in the same room only if necessary and protecting others by coughing or sneezing into washable cloths. It recommends taking nourishment every four hours and using medicine to relieve bowels.
A clipped comment from the Minneapolis Journal notes the enthusiasm of Republicans for Mr. Bryan on the other ticket as a moving spectacle for readers.
The excerpt uses a metaphor of Uncle Sam skimming a melting pot to praise the removal of dross and the improvement of the remaining material, implying reforms or cleansing. It reflects a nation shaping its core by discarding impurities.
Eagle Grove Eagle notes Judge Landis laments lacking power to defend Berger against a stone wall, a statement reflecting broad regret among loyal Americans over limited authority in the confrontation.
A Perry woman aged 47 and her daughter age 41 gave candid ages to the census taker. The correspondent notes this reveals a broader lack of preparedness in the household and reflects on civic diligence.
Isabelle Dora Trone, daughter of William H and Jennie Trone, born November 25 1903 in Downs Washington, died January 6 1920 at Barnes City Iowa aged 16. Survived by mother with siblings and relatives. Funeral services held January 8 in Barnes City and January 9 in Brighton with pastor J A Moorman. Burial in Brighton cemetery.
The District Court of Washington County Iowa has on file the petition and application of Lewis Vorel and William Vorel for administration of the estate of Frank Vorel an absentee. The notice identifies Frank Vorel formerly resident near Wellman Washington County Iowa who left the state.
The record notes Frank Vorel taught in Nebraska circa 1890 and married with no children. His wife died about 1892 and he disappeared soon after, leaving his mother Frances Vorel and brothers Lewis and William. Frances died intestate on April 16, 1919, possibly leaving Frank if alive, and she owned the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 32.
Timetables show arrivals and departures for multiple trains with numbers and times, including freight and passenger services. Corrected to December 8 1918, notes list Westbound and Eastbound connections and specific local freights and passes plus a series of lodge meeting dates and officers for Washington Lodge No 26 A A A M Cyrus Chapter No 18 R A M Bethlehem Commandery No45 K T and other orders with meeting nights and secretaries.
The District Court of Washington County Iowa sets March 9 1920 for hearing a petition seeking letters of administration for Frank Vorel as if dead and to determine legal heirs and their shares Lewis Vorel and William Vorel are named as heirs. Attorneys Eicher Livingston & Eicher represent the petitioners and notice is given as required by law.
The excerpt notes Cyrus the Great embraced sanitation ideas from Egypt, advised by his father to prevent illness in the army rather than cure it. It frames this as an early, clear articulation of preventive thinking centuries before Christ.
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