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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1919
Page
8
The note offers price lists for clubs and availability of any magazine. It instructs to call 50 Red or write to the Journal care of Nita Belle Mekoon at Avent for arrangements.
Roy Emerson, convicted of murdering his mother Mrs Kate Emerson at Creston, was sentenced by Judge Homer Fuller to imprisonment. The sentence followed denial of a motion for a new trial, with an appeal bond fixed at 15 dollars.
The page blends Chautauqua dates August 12 to 21 with local ads for goods services and personal notices. Items include grocery prices, chiropractor contact, real estate sales, travel and visiting notices, and a large mining investment advertisement for LA CUAUHTEMOC MINES promising profits and stock availability.
Evening Journal notes from W S Reister and Sons offering Saturday payments for cream at 53e per pound and other produce such as eggs 37e per dozen old hens 24c per pound old cocks unspecified price spring chickens 30c per pound. Also advertises Godfrey and Eldridge offices over Washington National Bank with phone 422 for property listings.
Fires rage across virtually every township in Delta county Michigan as state officials report extensive damage. A virgin pine tract in Charlevoix and Grand Traverse counties is also threatened while Dollar settlement near Whitefish Bay reportedly destroyed with residents evacuating. Another large American Iron company camp in the north part of the lower peninsula burns near Mancelona Antrim county.
Washington reports a joint conference of the Anti-Saloon League of America executive committee and state league superintendents advancing a world campaign to make the world dry. Prohibition efforts will soon launch in South and Central America, Mexico, the British Isles, Asia, Australia and New Zealand in cooperation with the world league.
Paris July 24 Premier Clemenceau said he will present a general election bill the day after the peace treaty is ratified to test the people’s will. The chamber of deputies backed his cabinet 272 to 181 amid jubilant opposition remarks.
A deacon questions giving to the collection box while a parishioner replies that heaven could be reached without contributing and illness may test one’s faith. The exchange features Brother Philander and Osborne Farmer in a folded wartime era voice.
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