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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1919
Page
7
Richmond Notes of Local Yields and Discharges
In Richmond on January 17 the Vodicka brothers returned home after honorable discharge from the army while two siblings remain in France. Local society features Red Cross meetings, farm purchases, a Palestine school box supper January 21, and community events. Several residents report recent military discharges, medical updates, social gatherings, and farm rental news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Vodicka
France
Leo Keifer
Joe Saforek
Frank Horesowsky
Iowa City
Kern
John Smith
Joe Escher
I. G. Shilendrosky
Lige Foucek
Red Cross
Farmers’ Union
Richmond Hall
Palestine School House
Gertrude Keifer
Frank McCombs
B. Marhofer
Lloyd Shalla
Tony Kron
Clarence Lehman
Tank Corps
Krem Meliree
B. Carroll
Iowa City Detective Agency
Riverside
E. Carrol
Deatech
Wilkinson
Riverside Leader
Dayton Grove Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Mr and Mrs J A Walker were Wellman visitors last Saturday. J L Sigmund returned from Washington after a visiting trip. John Oldfield spent Monday at Alba Knotts. Mrs Julia Cavender of Washington stayed with sister Mrs Frank Martin. Clarence Johnson and Miss Nola Moothart wed in Washington Wednesday. W A Leet and family visited A G Leet in West Chester. W A Leet currently ill with influenza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton Grove
J. A. Walker
Wellman
J. L. Sigmund
Washington
John Oldfield
Alba Knotts
Julia Cavender
Frank Martin
Will Embree
W. A. Leet
A. G. Leet
West Chester
Milt Dayton
Chicago
J. B. Moore
Fred Zieglowsky
Ainsworth
F. G. Martin
Waterloo
Chas. Johnson
Clarence
Nola Moothart
A. R. Strum
Jennie
Ernest Strum
Joe Walker
Kalona
Jas. Walker
W. C. Enthree
Cut Mis Out It Is Worth Money AdVERTISEMENT
Cut out this slip and mail it to Foley & Co in Chicago to receive a trial package of Foley remedies including Honey and Tar Compound for coughs colds and croup Foley Kidney Pills Foley Cathartic Tablets and Lemon’s Pharmacy ad appears in the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Foley
Lenmon’s Pharmacy
Brazil’s Rise to Lead World Coffee Market
The article traces the shift in coffee dominance from the Arabian region to the West Indies and Java, then Brazil. It notes Brazil now supplies about three quarters of global coffee and governs the market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Inter
West Indies
Java
Local notes from multiple Iowa towns and staff changes
Reports across Keota, Richland, Wayland, Columbus Junction and Riverside detail new bank staff appointments, discharges and transfers, a push for public parks, train service adjustments, a mail crane installation, a large Jefferson township wolf hunt planned near Columbus Junction, and a youth theft roundup in Riverside with confessions and restorations amid possible leniency.
Englishman Frenchman and Hun wager on skunk room
A humorous report from Keota about an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a Hun making a bet to stay longest in a room with a skunk. The Frenchman lasted six minutes, the Englishman twelve, and the Hun three minutes before the skunk left.
Michigan Housewife Praises Vinci Strength Concept
Mrs Albert Rose of Treason Michigan says Vinci transformed her weak run down condition allowing her to perform housework for her family of three. The ad claims Vinci is a powerful strength creator with beef cod liver peptones iron and manganese peptonates and glycerophosphates. Sher man Bros and druggists promote the product as the greatest tonic. Saxol Salve offered with a guarantee for eczema.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinci
Mike
Albert Rose
Sherman Bros
Advt
Pershing as Presidential Candidate Voiced by Judge Elliott
Minneapolis judge urges that General Pershing is more than a soldier and would make an ideal Republican candidate. He cites Pershing's civil administration in the Moro province, broad-minded leadership, and ability to appoint capable advisers. A second paragraph hints at a separate literary plot about a British agent with a hidden identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Gen. Pershing
Charles B. Elliott
Philippines
Supreme Court
Commerce and Police
Pershing
Nebraska
Wyoming
the Times
Moro
Union
Prohibition Echoes Through Iowa and Nation's Thirst
A column lamenting Prohibition era tensions notes water scarcity for drink, the Reed law, and looming federal enforcement. It recalls John Barleycorn, Iowa ratification odds, and grim prospects for bootleggers as laws tighten and speakeasies fade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tchabod
Ichabod
John Barleycorn
Iowa
Self
The Man Who Wouldn’t Tell at Fox Theatre
Vitagraph Blue Ribbon Feature The Man Who Wouldn’t Tell stars Earle Williams and is directed by James Young. Filmed along Southern California coast highlights Del Monte Country Club polo and society settings, showcasing Williams as a polished polo captain and noted California native.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Vitagraph
Fox Theatre
Earle Williams
James Young
del Monte
Williams
Mr. Williams
Rainbow Division Prophetic Title to Courage and Sacrifice
The passage honors the Rainbow Division, praising their merit, faith, and mettle as a living prophecy and historic record. It imagines fallen soldiers seeing their deeds beyond cannon fire, then requests they rest under their flag while the living honor them with admiration and gratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thecannon
Distillery Hobby Question Sparks Local Mockery
In a Marshalltown Times-Republican excerpt a flippant riff on alcohol law and enforcement mocks officials and the idea of starting a distillery with a teakettle and garden hose. The tone shifts from regional pride to satire on prohibition era attitudes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Tipperary
Paris
Berlin
London
Booze Association
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Coffee enters England during Cromwell era says pamphleteer
The Restoration pamphleteer asserts coffee and the Commonwealth arrived together during the Cromwellian Protectorate. It notes Jacobs, a Jew, opened an Oxford coffee house in 1650 and, two years later, Pasua Rosee, an Armenian servant, established the first London coffee house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Jacobs
Oxford
London
Pasua Rosee
Long Wars of the Past Review of Age-Long Conflicts
A history review notes England battled France in the Hundred Years War and England against Scotland stretched over five centuries with intermittent hostilities shaping Europe’s early era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
France
Scotland
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