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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1919
Page
4
The Department of Agriculture advises using wet spells for tractor maintenance before autumn plowing. Farmers welcome rain to fulfill the suggestion. Dust caused two auto accidents locally yesterday, urging extra caution on dusty roads. Saturday night brought a heavy country crowd into town with crowded stores and a summer clearance in full swing.
A clipped Sioux City Journal comment argues some annoyances persist beyond war blame, noting bugs in sleeves and berry seeds between teeth as everyday irritants. The remark pivots on shifting responsibility from the war to ordinary mischief and small flaws.
Marshalltown Times Republic an notes that leaders who plead guilty before their arraignment deserve immediate sentencing based on their confessions. The item urges swift judgment in the proceeding labeled a plea.
Knoxville Express questions the rationale of opposing the state plan for road improvement while supporting the idea of the state agristate college and its goods specialists as a regional boon. The piece frames the contrast as a test of local progress versus fiscal restraint.
The Des Moines Register notes a year of unusual shortages with warm winter, little spring sun, brief summer ice, and likely coal scarcity in fall, followed by a sense that conditions are returning to normal.
A garbled collage of quotations spoofs from papers including Boston Transcript and Houston Post. It mentions flattery, perfumes like Jazzmine, a father objecting to a suitor, trench memories, a boiler factory sound, and a challenged colored soldier in a disputed scene.
Abe Martin laments the burden of wartime soda tax and complains it is harder on the public than the government to collect the levy, joking about the strain on consumers and the tax system.
A reflective verse piece recalls Willard returning to Lawrence Kansas with a farm and livestock. It juxtaposes anti violence themes with memoir of fights and racial tensions and notes Jess’s shift to peaceful labor and rural life. The poem laments bloodshed and praises farming duties and quiet contentment.
A brief joke exchange features a lieutenant with a jug of gin gaining passage, followed by a druggist asking a dyspepsia customer about using tablets. The humor hinges on failed relief and a parry of clever lines.
In a village tale a mother learns from a priest that her son Pat is killed. She shows the letter saying Dear Mother I am now in the Holy Land. The scene shifts to an American Red Cross canteen where a homesick soldier sobs over a cookbook.
Mrs. John M. Franklin of Seattle travels to New York spending 23 dollars 32 cents by any means to prove travel costs can be cut. She wins a 2000 dollar wager for the Red Cross by reaching Osborn Hall on July 16 after leaving June 18. She endures hardships including milking cows washing dishes and working to avoid hospitality payments despite an arrest in Missoula for wearing men’s clothes.
Velma Haynes, formerly Miss Velma Haynes and now Mrs Franklin, a 26 year old graduate nurse from Bellevue Hospital, is told to run along to New York. She says she never felt better and plans to ride back to Se.
W H Bender Iowa state director of vocational education reports trip to Black Hawk Jasper Crawford Ringgold and Appanoose counties. He notes threefold rise in farming instruction plans includes three week to three month winter courses for ages 14 and up. Federal and state funds total nearly 140000 for agriculture home economics and trades education next year with 70000 from federal and 40000 from state.
Twenty five of 168 enemy aliens from the Philippines interned in the US have been set aboard the Thomas for return to Manila to resume their occupations. They were bonded at amounts from 250 to 100,000 dollars. 16 percent remain in the United States. Included are J C Hoffweisterp a wig manufacturer and C J Jahring a druggist reputed to be millions tres.
Five American World War I doughboys released from Moscow discuss their failed attempts at Bolshevik conversion and harsh treatment. The article also highlights an Edith Wharton Fund drive to expand French tuberculosis sanatoria for women and children, detailing costs, beds, and potential memorials.
Miss Adeline O Johnson instructor of music in Lenox Massachusetts led six young women on a Wet Stockbridge mountain outing where they observed two golden eagles perched low and carrying a lamb in their talons. Pat trick Larkin a Highland Farm shepherd reported two lambs missing from his flocks presumed to belong to William Sh Oscar Field of New York. Old timers say this is the first time golden eagles have been seen near Saarect.
Donations should be sent to the French Heroes Lafayette Memorial Fund Inc for French Tuberculosis Women and Children at 2 West 45th Street New York City as ordered by Treasurer James A. Blair Jr.
Washington reports Senator Phelan of California submitted information to the state department showing that the Japanese liner Korea Maru brought 150 picture or proxy brides to California for husbands who had never met them. Other records indicated some brides arrived in Seattle. Phelan said this immigration undermines the gentlemen's agreement.
Old time garden sage tea mixed with sulphur darkens gray fading hair. A ready made Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound offers easier use. Damp a brush and apply strand by strand to achieve dark glossy hair by morning. Not a medical cure.
A 1918 Washington Branch timetable lists multiple express local and freight trains with arrivals and departures, noting daily except Sunday service on several lines and specific adjustments. Corrections show westbound and eastbound limits, with agent signatures and dates.
LODGES Washington Lodge No. 26 A F and A M holds regular meetings on the first Friday night monthly. Cyrus Chapter No. 18 M A M meets on the second Friday night. Bethlehem Commandery No. 45 KT meets on the third Friday night. Washington Chapter No. 6n OKB meets the second Thursday night. Visiting fraters are welcome.
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