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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1918
Page
7
Community notes from Washington County cover coming and going in various neighborhoods. Short news items summarize local happenings, events, and notices across the county in compact form.
Maple Grove reports Croutier and Parron visiting for a county supervisor bid with praise for local business leaders. The piece highlights war savings stamps success, community events, farm life, and local headlines including a theater review of The Fall of the Romanoffs.
Increased travel and resort costs will keep many hay fever and asthma sufferers home. Foley's Honey and Tar is recommended as a remedy for hay fever and asthma. it heals and soothes, eases irritation, and relieves choking sensations. Lemmon's Pharmacy.
The stage drama The Fall of the Romanoffs presents the Russian revolutions and birth of democracy. The production follows the monk Slieder once close to Rasputin, detailing the Czar’s crimes, tyranny, and power behind the throne.
International president S J Konenkamp announced a commercial telegraphers strike against Western Union set for July 8 after talks with railroad telegraphers. About 14 000 workers across three unions may be affected though Postal Service work remains unaffected.
Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina and naval affairs chair is seriously ill at his Washington home. Doctors fear for his recovery as his left side is paralyzed and he has had a severe recurrent cerebral hemorrhage since Thursday.
A Bible passage in St. Matthew Chapter 17 describes a boy tormented by seizures as he falls into fire or water. The text presents a vivid depiction of epilepsy through a miracle where the Savior heals the afflicted child.
Captain J. F. Morris, twenty four, attached to the British mission in Washington, is among the youngest flyers from allied nations in the United States. He has four years of combat experience and says he has shot down 24 German planes with only a single wound. He has been giving exhibition flights in Washington.
The article recounts the 1863 battle over three days in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. It covers Union and Confederate positions, key actions at Peach Orchard Little Round Top Culp’s Hill and Pickett’s Charge, leadership under Meade Lee and Longstreet, heavy losses on both sides, and the battle’s role as a pivotal turning point despite continued fighting for two more years.
Ralph Barton humorously labels a Long Island shore hamlet Babylon near Fire Island as an odd modern town. He contrasts its seaside gardens with aging social myths, noting scarce daughters of Babylon and a mirroring obsession with urban status as women seek wealthier spouses and move away.
London Tit-Bits reports a remarkable trainable bird called the yak-a-milk in Venezuela. The creature acts as a sheep dog and watchdog, obeys its master, defends its charges from predators, and even performs odd waltzing and pirouetting in its idle moments.
The article notes that Chinese government messengers between Peking and Lhassa endure extreme conditions. They cover 4500 miles? tones? in six and a half days, riding 125 miles daily. Letters stay in a yellow bag on the messenger’s back, only removed when changing attire weekly. Messengers swap horses frequently and stay at postal stations, with strict diet limits and only four hours of sleep per day.
Nineteen men were arrested in Burlington after Saturday raids by state agents from the attorney general's office. Authorities seized beer and liquor worth thousands and found gambling paraphernalia across multiple locations. Bond money totaling about 5,700 was posted to secure release. more arrests were expected as warrants remained outstanding.
In the National League Chicago and Cincinnati tied 7 7 in a game halted after 1 inning of the second contest. St Louis lost to Pittsburgh 2 4. American League saw Chicago beat St Louis 3 4 and Detroit 10 2 over Cleveland. Boston 3 Washington 1. No other games were played.
A brief archival line notes a paradoxical line from the Yoston Transcript about loving trees yet glad to sew them, reflecting seasonal tension in early modern discourse.
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