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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1918
Page
6
A Brest portrait shows Queen Helena of Italy in Red Cross nurse attire. The royal figure has endeared herself to Italians by hospital work for soldiers and is popularly known for her Red Cross service.
The Fortnightly club hosts its annual household economics department picnic at Sunset Park this afternoon. Daughters of the American Revolution meet at 2 30 at Mrs. R S Cook home. Mrs Will Pleming hosts Social Hour club today. Worth While Girls sew tonight at Mrs Will Sickles home. Mrs Bessie Wead hosts afternoon Kolah club. PP 1 knitting club meets at 2 00 this afternoon at Mrs Pred Cannon’s. Navio club gathers at Red Cross rooms for work this afternoon. Thursday Mrs Charles McKinstry hosts in the afternoon Bethel settings.
June 11 to June 18 features multiple ten cent socials and meetings. Activities include the Ladies Aid societies of Christian and Presbyterian churches, W T C, Eastern Star initiation, Red Cross workers gathering, Good Times club, Clover Leaf club, Port nightly club closing year events, and varied hostesses such as Mrs Huber Powell Matin Hampton and others inviting members and the public.
The article lists wheatless and meatless picnic options including baked potatoes wheatless bread and various fillings. It gives recipes using barley flour cookies and banana-like bar recipes and notes on hydration and portable meals for picnics. It also reports about British Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps members arriving in London for treatment after injuries in France.
A reflective maxim urges balancing fortune with prudence. It compares wealth management to constitutional restraint, favoring temperance in prosperity, patience in hardship, and nonviolent remedies, except in cases of necessity.
Mrs. MelLaughlin announces the June quota for Washington county Red Cross surgical dressings. One thousand first line packets will be produced consisting of 6 000 x 4 compresses 6 000 tampons 2 000 drains 1 000 applicators 1 000 pads with attached bandage. Also listed are 53 shot bags 15 seculteus bandages garments 79 hospital shirts 19 jackets 11 pajamas and knitting 2 sweaters 4 pair socks.
Mrs. Walker expects county garment workers to learn their June quota once received. Fifty pajamas were cut yesterday and there are ample garments cut for hospital shirt makers and pajama projects. The garment department will operate Tuesday through Friday each week.
The West Chester Red Cross auxiliary raised funds from a benefit and song sales. They printed original songs from the entertainment and are selling copies, having collected 112.25 dollars with the amount still growing.
During May the Haskins Red Cross auxiliary women produced and shipped surgical dressings and garments. They made 283 gauze dressings 4x4 wipes 45 5x4 compresses and 59 triangular bandages plus related items for relief efforts.
Chapter 1 P EB O members plan a Thursday picnic at Mrs Harriett Huber's home. They will travel by car from Lemmagn jewelry store at 1 30 PM, with rain plans to meet at Myrtle Anderson on West Washington Street.
Edward Mott Woolley discusses modern office life and the role of personal touch in large and successful firms. He notes that as business grows the tone of genuine personal touch becomes a distinct art.
Birds of Nebraska note that about 400 species exist in the state yet no single locality hosts more than 200. The statement highlights Nebraska's avian diversity and concentration limits in any given area.
In The Evening Journal a savvy figure accepts a setback and plots a strategic response. The piece frames restraint as a path to eventual advantage, contrasting quiet patience with public confrontation.
Guide to processing jars for home canning. Boil jars and tops fifteen minutes, fill while hot, skip tight sealing until later. Submerge partially sealed jars in warm water, boil for specified times, then clamp tight and cool away from drafts. Test for leaks when cold.
An etymology note traces the term breadfather to a title meaning keeper or dispenser of bread. Before 1200 the word bread linked to lord and the daily food supply, suggesting the breadfather as the household’s bread provider.
Instructions from the U S Department of Agriculture outline selecting fresh peas, rapid processing, and careful packing. Blanch 1 4 minutes in boiling water, cool briefly, then pack with salt and sugar, seal hot, and process under pressure or follow single period boiling as specified.
Miss Myrtle O Bryan of Evansville Indiana has undergone an operation to make herself about four inches taller. Her legs were crooked from childhood and both limbs were broken in the procedure. They are now encased in tight plaster casts.
An individual life raft invented in Germany is provided with an intermittent light at the front and a motor driven by a rear storage battery. The article describes the raft’s illumination and propulsion system as part of its design.
Miss Georg of New York manages the Hostess house of the YWCA in Paris. The hostess house serves the convenience of American women doing war work over there.
A patient, described as four feet seven inches tall before surgery, is expected to grow by four inches upon recovery, aligning with her wishes and physician’s assessment.
When labor was scarce H H Smooth of Burlington enlisted his wife for the season. She and Mr Smooth recently finished painting the water tank at West Liberty Ioma with Mrs Smooth doing most of the work and Mr Smooth repairing the pumping station smok crack.
The article notes that most high quality furniture and industrial lumber in New Zealand is imported, including oak ash and hickory, mainly from the United States the United Kingdom and Japan.
A trimmed literary fragment notes that a whitress or poetess is born to her craft and is made for her role as one maid to order, reflecting on talent and fit.
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