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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1918
Page
8
A guest demands a train, claiming another owes him money. The inn clerk refuses to reveal funds, warning it would cost them their job, while insisting the money is needed to keep the guest accommodated.
Burma stands as the globe’s leading rice exporting region with Rangoon as the chief rice port. Annual exports from Burma’s four ports rival Siam and French Indo China combined, and Rangoon’s export nearly matches Saigon and Bangkok combined.
In tropical America annatto is widely grown from a shrub producing a natto like fruit. Women and children harvest ripe capsules, extract seeds, boil them, and ferment the liquid. The dye settles, is strained, evaporated to a putty like consistency, and wrapped in banana leaves as annatto of colotluerce.
About 200 board feet of wood are used in constructing an average airplane. To obtain this material one must work over roughly 1,500 feet of select lumber, a quantity that often accounts for all the lumber available for airplanes needing 15,000 board feet of standing stock.
The text asserts that a unified English postal system formed under James I in 1606 and credits Doctor Pranklin as the founder of the modern United States postal system.
A pithy column excerpt notes a man’s resolve in risk and thrift, contrasting bold betting with careful restraint as a lesson in character and personal finance.
Local items list visits and arrivals from Winfield West Chester Sigourney Wellman and New London. Shoppers read about rug sales clothes and medicines at Klein Klothing Co J E Lemmon Pharmacy and Miona stomach pills. The Red Cross event at West Chester Baptist church draws 25 15 cents plus tax. The AC Sperk Plug is noted as standard equipment in 40 of new cars. White Way Garage Co promotes pricing.
Various notices list shopping sales at Klein Klothing Co and Crull's closing out groceries, birthday and visiting updates, marriage licenses issued to several couples, and travels of families including Mrs. Paul and the Hobsons. Notes mention a Red Cross program at West Chester church and a Parisian Sage endorsement. Palmer Schilling to Vancouver to join the U S Army. Eileen Wilson visiting from Idaho Falls heads to Nilwood for summer.
Advert reads that Mrs. Albert Peck was a caller at the Maleck Marck home Thursday. It promotes a big closing out sale at Klein Klo Ko with everything going and mentions C. V. Crull.
One hundred twenty five cases of Bibles arrived at Ebu Owerri Africa requiring 125 African porters to carry each 60 pounds in single file through the bush. There are 25 Bibles per tin lined case totaling 3100 copies expected to be sold to natives within the year.
The ancient Romans lacked transparent glass free of flaws yet produced exquisite glassware in blood red crimson red and many vivid colors likened to priceless gem-stones though perfection in modern imitation remains elusive.
The passage argues that a newborn’s feet and leg proportions mirror primitive, tree dwelling ancestors. It notes inward arches and joint rests resembling early anthropoid forms, drawing a line from infancy to evolutionary stages in humans.
Serene, a nurse and skippers an ice yacht on the Shrewsbury river near the Jersey capes. She risks ice break, fog, and collisions, yet smiles, claiming nerves of steel and skill to master the speedy craft on ice-covered waters.
Farmers along Broadkiln Bay near Milton Delaware prepared to defend homes as a mysterious craft approached Cedar Beach It turned out to be a dead whale stranded near Frank Waples farm at Slaughter Neck Hundreds gathered to view it Charlie Reed will tow it to Lewes fisheries to extract oil The 7 foot long whale is believed shot in mid ocean
Pomona city clerk R. Trotter and his sister Mires, long separated after he left Cork to become a sailor, have reunited after 42 years. Trotter has served as Pomona city clerk for twenty years and learned of his sister through a Los Angeles newspaper reader who reached out a month ago.
The Republican county convention opens Saturday at 11:00 in the courthouse court room to perfect organization and name a supervisor candidate, three hospital board members, and delegates to the Des Moines state convention. Read list includes delegates from Brighton, Clay, Crawford, Dutch Creek, Franklin Center, Highland, Iowa, Jackson, Kalona, Marion, Nira, Oregon, Richmond, Seventy six, Wellman, West Chester, Washington, First Ward, Second Ward, and Third Ward with names such as E L Edmondson W H Lloyd W S Parks G R Brier and others.
A fragmented list includes J. D. McLaughlin H. M. Shaver Carl Hedges M. D. Work H. A. Pauls Fourth Ward H. Richards J. T. Matthews Chas Deuel Frank Stewart Julius Conger D. W. Harvey Earl Simpson Brighton Two W. A. Cherry 1 HH. Frazier.
Washington area seeks volunteers with farm work experience to assist in harvesting crops. Report to J R Maxwell and list your name for possible call during the harvest period.
A method to revive corks after use involves boiling them in water and keeping them submerged until the water cools. This process aims to rehydrate and loosen compressed cork material to prevent leakage from bottles.
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