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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1918
Page
8
A local note references Morrison & Morrison discussing farm loans. The fragment hints at telling merchants about the loans but lacks full context or outcomes. Further details are unreadable in the surviving text.
Local notices detail a winter concert season with Mary Manners visiting, Emma Green singing, and Klein Clothing Co promoting a boys department. Town shoppers and officials frequent stores and the Rite-Style Store. notes cover school mumps, kindergarten changes, water rents due, and band concert ticket sales.
The passage explains that heliotrope is scarce and unprofitable for perfumers. It notes its aroma as vanilla with bitter almonds and describes adding vanilla tincture with bitter almond oil and rose and orange flower essence to produce heliotrope extract.
The text notes the name Habsburg derives from the castle Habsburg on the Aar in Aargau Switzerland and explains alternative spellings Hab- Jelitsburg and Habspburg. it adds that Britannica uses Habsburg while the country often uses Hapsburg.
The notice urges readers to prepare for another wheatless day tomorrow. It emphasizes conserving wheat by avoiding bread and baked goods and highlights civic duty to support war effort. Local officials remind the public to follow rationing rules and monitor announcements.
Farm loans are noted with Morrison & Morrison. A Thursday evening band concert features Morning Noon and Night selections. William Sutherland visits Columbus Junction for a brief business trip. A new boys department shows a larger display than before.
Martin Neilson and Gus Bre mer donated a silk service flag with eleven stars to the Knights of Pythias hall last evening. The gift honors lodge members now in service, and a vote of thanks from the lodge reflected its appreciated spirit and intimate value. Stars commemorate Harold Putnam Phil Crail Allen Hayes Harvey Matthews Otto Lamannsky W Brookhart Col S W Brookhart Victor Crone Phil Mercer Kenneth Carvis Marl Simerman.
A fragmentary line quotes Uncle Eben saying many men are fairly successful yet feel persistently dissatisfied and refuse to admit it, indicating a mood of discontent despite outward success.
A moralistic voice quotes Mrs Jameson on the fate of a coquette likening it to a drunkard or opium eater with loss of intellect cheerfulness generosity and self respect in the end.
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