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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1918
Page
6
The Worth White Baptist junior girls met Saturday afternoon with Marguerite Burch. They sewed and discussed plans for new work. Wilma Foss read the Dreams and their fulfillment. Jessie Lyon led the business meeting and two new members were welcomed.
The February output by the surgical dressings department surpasses previous months as workers gain ease with gauze. The list shows items such as compresses, laparotomy pads, pneumonia packets, webbing straps, irrigation pads, and various gauze products totaling sizable counts across branches.
Reports show the February Red Cross workrooms in Crawfordsville and other branches producing gauze dressings, muslin bandages, compresses, and pads. Volunteers in clubs and individuals crafted items like folded gauze strips, triangular bandages, and garment outputs, highlighting time and skill invested per piece.
A dense social calendar lists Fortnightly Club and DAR meetings at various homes this week. Women’s Missionary societies, club gatherings, and a private Phoenix Hall dance are noted along with extensive county sewing and surgical dressings work directed by Mrs. Walker and Mrs. McLaughlin, plus open receptions and business meetings at multiple churches and organizations.
Paris pupils collect one cent for the adoption of American war orphans in France. The Bercy school started the drive honoring American children who adopted orphans in France, Jeanne, Pierre and little Marie sending pennies across the ocean to Les petits Americans. The lyric note describes pennies as precious and comforting to fatherless children.
Citizens urged to deliver donations to Mrs. Geo. W. Hobson’s residence tomorrow so the ladies can ship promptly. The notice appears in local Bulletins from Clark & Binslin, The Rite-Style Store.
The Chilcoat Library Board passes a resolution thanking the Fortnightly Club for a $100 cash gift, a clock, and six pictures showing the Evolution of a Book. The club helped convert the library to a card index system and aided the War Library Fund drive in 1917.
The author reflects on how small geographic areas produced major biblical events and how classical Greece, though compact, witnessed many notable figures and dramatic careers. The piece compares maps and learning to the density of history within limited lands.
The passage observes how diverse trees at the Arnold Arboretum reveal natural growth laws through their likes and dislikes of growing methods. It claims amateurs can learn essential care and environmental needs by studying these differing growth responses.
A historical adish style guide urges conserving bread by eating potatoes. It describes scalloped potatoes with cheese baked with milk and flour notes on timing for raw and boiled potatoes, plus a brief potato sausage reference.
A recipe describes mixing mashed potatoes with ground nuts and fish or meat, then adding a beaten egg and seasoning. Form into small cakes or sausages, coat with flour, fry lightly and bake in a hot oven until brown.
Grease a baking dish and layer mashed potatoes on the bottom. Add a layer of cooked minced meat or fish with stock or gravy seasoned well. Cover with mashed potatoes and bake long enough to heat for twenty to thirty minutes.
In the Ressen valley Caucasus near Tzar idvor peasants digging wells found coal 16 feet from the surface. The vein runs 225 feet thick and already supplies the local neighborhood with fuel. experts expect larger deposits remain undiscovered.
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