Drive to Keota 10 Boost Celebration Draws Washington Visitors
A parade of twenty or more cars carried over a hundred Washington residents and band members to Keota for a county celebration. A. R. Miller and J. L. Brookhart spoke to large crowds after a band concert. Highlights include a long parade, new uniforms from Chicago, and Pershine's Crusaders screenings at Graham. Red Cross ice cream parlor profits support relief efforts.
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Keota
Washington
Washington County
Charles Linemaster
Keets
A. R. Miller
J. L. Brookhart
Washington Band
Bne
Old Methodist Church
Chicago
Pershine
Crusaders
Red Cross Society
Sunset Park
Silas Ross
Red Cross
Red Cross Parade urged for Fourth of July march
Little Jane asks her mother to join the Red Cross parade while workers prepare for the Sun Set Park event. The note lists shop work resuming Friday, Friday night hours, and ongoing sewing of tampons and compresses with Kalona shipments and ruck pad bandages ordered to discontinue.
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Little Jane Godfrey
Red Cross
Little Jane
Kalona
Junior Red Cross Keeps Busy Through Vacation
Junior Red Cross members remain active during school break as chapters seek help with knitting articles comfort bars and hospital supplies. About 2 million junior members in Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Iowa and Nebraska support 17 000 auxiliaries to 568 chapters, with most schools acting as auxiliaries.
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Red Cross
Junior Red Cross
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Nebraska
Chamberlain's Tablets Offer Relief for Stomach Ailments
These tablets target stomach troubles biliousness and constipation. Try them and see a first class medicine at work. They cost a quarter. Lemmon's Drug Store.
Storey Named Federal Manager for Santa Fe Line
Chicago July 3 W B Storey vice president of the Santa Fe railway to oversee operation and management of the line as federal appointee, superseding President B P Ripley. Other federal managers named include J B Gorman Rock Island and W B Bierd Chicago & Alton chiefs, with several regional posts assigned.
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Chicago
W. B. Storey
Santa Fe Railway
Hale Holden
Central Western Region
Mr. Storey
Santa Fe
B. P. Ripley
J.B. Gorman
Rock Island
W. B. Bierd
Chicnage & Alton
Chicago, Veorta & St. Louie Railway
W. J. Jackson
Chicago, Terre Haute & Southern
Cavin
Union Pacific
Allied Roads
CC. M. Kittle
Southern Pacific
Western Pacifhc
Rest and Chamberlain's Liniment Endorsement
A brief health ad claims rheumatic muscle ache responds to absolute rest and a few doses of Chamberlain's Liniment as recommended by Lemmon's Drug Store.
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Chamberlain's
Victory for the White Hands and The Brown Hands
A Washington county farmer allegory condemns labor patterns and political posturing. A giant county worker bears a white hand shielding him from toil while brown hands toil six days a week to harvest crops. The piece condemns idlers and argues against Sunday rest for nonproductive work.
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Washington
Washington County
Red Cross Workers of Washington Chapter Honor 72 Volunteers
Seventy two Washington county Red Cross workers are pictured having each given at least seventy two hours of service. The article lists names across six rows with roles in surgical dressings comfort kits hospital garment work knitting and more. The women are recognized for earning the right to wear Red Cross emblems on their uniforms.
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Red Cross
T. J. Dempsey
Denison
Marian Stewart
W. J. Hamilton
Homer Darbyshire
Althea Montgom
Lottie Norton
M. Cuddy
J. B. Crail
R. H. Walker
Hospital Garment Work
Allen
Jack Westphal
J. D. McLaughlin
Eva Livingston
Washington County
Sarah Babcock
Elizabeth Dawson
Road gangs and manpower use in county work
The speaker argues road improvement is needed but urges fully using available labor for six days before a seventh day of work. He rebuts patriotic talk and questions loyalty for violating the decalog and human law while criticizing road crews and county gangs.
Foley Cathartic Tablets Endorsed By Geo Jenner
Geo Jenner of 416 Labor St San Antonio Texas writes that Foley Cathartic Tablets are the best laxative he has taken and recommends them to those with constipation or biliousness. He says they should be in every traveling man's grip for relief from sick headache bloating or other digestion related issues. Lemimon's Pharmacy advertises the product.
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Geo. Jenner
Labor St
San Antonio
Tex
Lemimon
Advt
Tragic Camp Dodge Accident Claims Private Heyerhoff
Private Julius A. Heyerhoff of Company 1 248th Infantry, Fort Dodge, was killed at Camp Dodge when a rifle discharged accidentally while being repaired. A jammed cartridge led to a bullet grazing a rack area, severing an artery and causing fatal blood loss. An officer board will investigate.
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Camp Dodge
Julius A. Heyerhoff
Company 1
248Th Infantry
William J. Heyerhoff
Fort Dodge
Heyerhoff
Indict Wilkerson and Woman in Wapello Grand Jury
The Wapello county grand jury returned indictments against Detective J N Wilkerson of Montgomery county and Mrs J W Noel of Villisca. They were arrested together in Ottumwa. The charges include conspiracy to injure character business and property and to commit felonies undermining public justice. Attorney General H M Hovner attended the session and drew the indictments.
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Wapello
Sugar substitutes urged to ease 1918 sugar supply
The 1918 agricultural production program urges using substitutes to conserve sugar. It notes limits on sugar cane and beet expansion, promotes sorghum, corn and cane syrup, maple sugar, and honey, and highlights rising sorghum syrup output to aid war efforts and transport to soldiers.
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Department of Agriculture
Union
Wilkerson and Woman Released on Bond in Ottumwa Case
Wilkerson and the woman are out on bond until their district court trial in Ottumwa in the fall. Their defense states they did not commit a crime.
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Wilkerson
Ottumwa
Auto racing disaster near Tama injures Ruff family
On the Lincoln Highway near Tama Iowa Olin Ruff a farmer and his wife were badly hurt when his Oakland car rolled twice at forty miles an hour at Magee hill. Pred Stuff the father suffered serious head injuries and the mother chest injuries. They were taken to Marshalltown hospital with some hope of recovery. The Ruff boy and their younger son escaped injury. The car was wrecked.
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Tama
Olin Ruff
Garwin and
Montour
Lincoln Highway
Magee Hill
Oakland
Marshalltown
Ruff
Unity of Control Ordered for War Health Agencies
President Wilson issued an executive order placing all wartime sanitary and public health activities under the Public Health Service. The move aims to prevent policy confusion and duplication, ensuring more effective results and unified control. Walter, at sea a day and night, joyfully exclaims upon sighting land.
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Wilson
Washington
Public Health Service
Usually to His Sorrow Monkey Quote from Uncle Phen
The line features Uncle Phen remarking on a lyric misfit and a monkey with a buzz saw. It captures rural speech and a humorous analogy about work and distraction.
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Uncle Phen
Americans and French Capture Village of Vaux on Marne Front
Paris reports an American French operation west of Vaux and near hill 204 on the Marne front improved allied positions. The raid netted more than 800 prisoners including five officers. French raids between Montdidier Noyon and Reims area also took prisoners. German raids near Beltoy and Alsace failed.
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Paris
Joly
Vaux
Chateau Thierry
Marne
War Office Armeniecd
Mlontidier Am Noyon
Reis
Belloy
Upper
Alsace
Vaux-Hiil
Montdidier
Noyon
Reims
Beltoy
Upper Alsace
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promotion Claim
There is widespread catarrh deemed incurable by local doctors but Hall's Catarrh Medicine from FP J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio is advertised as a constitutional internal remedy. A one hundred dollar reward is offered for any case not cured, with circulars on testimonials.
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Hall
FP. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & CO
Strength of Governments
A concise reflection on authority noting that established governments enjoy a built in advantage as most people submit to rule not through reason but because tradition and antiquity confer legitimacy. It contrasts inherited power with the preference for established authority.
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Hume
Striving to Keep a Youthful Soul
A reflective quotation from Margaret Deland contrasts an aging body with the idea of an old soul. The speaker argues responsibility lies in maintaining vitality of spirit rather than physical youth.
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Margaret Deland
Smokeless Fuel From Anthracite Culm Mix
A new smokeless fuel is formed by blending anthracite culm with about 20 percent soft coal. The discovery suggests a viable alternative fuel for cleaner combustion.
Selfishness Claims No Interest From World
A quip from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer quotes a talking point that the speaker cares only for personal matters and as a result has lost the attention or concern of others. This wry remark highlights a view on self-absorption and public notice.
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Seattle Post-Intelligenccer
Strength in Love Quotation on Bridge Metaphor
A George Eliot quotation asserts love as the first cable of a suspension bridge between souls. It claims true love can bear many burdens without giving way.
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George Eliot
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RED Cross Workers OF Washington Chapter
Rade Warfel
Grayson
Mary Benz
W. E. Andersen
Marjorie Cunningham
2. N. Anwyl
Olive Campbell
W. A. Gibson
C. W. Stewart
J. M. Godfrey
Jd. E. Lemmon
Jean Shuman
Will G. Stewart
C. W. McLaughlin
F. A. Heinzman
J. A. McCall
C. A. Bolee
C. C. Cunningham
David McLaughlin
Lem Cherry
A. W. McCurley
E. B. Walker
Ralph Junkin
Clara Darbyshire
Harry Dickerson
Ington County
R. RB. Dougherty
Merle Lytle
Orscar Jugenheimer
al McCaldl
Lydia Juzeler
Eva Allison
Fred Reid
Orville Rider
D. J. Patterson
Hugh Dougall
Julia Cavender
Steve Stewart
C. J. Wilson
Comfort Kit Work
Louise Cunningham
J. R George
C. G. Schmoeller
Marl Simpson
Glenn Hayes
Dodge Soldier Shop
Recruit
Walter
Napoleon
Army
U. S
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the Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
Mason’s Store
Ric
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Lesher Whitman & Co, Inc
Broadway
New York
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