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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1920
Page
4
A satirical view on postwar price shocks and blame across society. Salaried workers face hardship while prewar incomes lag. Scarcity rumors, rising costs, and paper shortages illustrate broader economic strain and a hoped eventual price correction.
Mrs. Tilford Moots remarks on her brother Henry, who has a fine education and a plug hat but little time to enjoy them. Bud ponders whether to buy a spring suit or an overcoat for next winter.
On a cold day a grocer sells frost intolerant strawberries from Florida at a dollar and a third a box. A banker, a lawyer, and other locals react with mock moralizing to the pricey fruit while a tinsmith buys a box to serve at home. The piece satirizes wealth and desire.
The piece describes widespread speculation across business sectors as prices wobble. It notes a shared gambling impulse in merchants, farmers, manufacturers, and laborers, with many hoping to avoid losses by delaying sales while others hold back goods. The author predicts an eventual market break.
Kaleer suffers from uncontrollable rage with no secretary of state to vent his anger, reported by Oskalovosa Herald. The remark highlights a political tension as Kaleer faces leadership gaps and public frustration.
In the Sibley Tribune a February note compares palates and purses to the usual berries. The piece highlights a surprise in the pal ate and a shock to the purse as February crops resemble typical strawberries.
A string of eclectic quotes includes Patrick FF Murphy urging cross Atlantic travel for a yearly alcoholiday, General Denikin on tanks corn and booze, Gutzen Horglum praising Paderewski, Asquith on Russia’s future, and Havelock Ellis on the Devil as unconscious desires.
A vivid screen adaptation of Stewart Edward White's novel produced by Benjamin B Hampton for Great Authors Pictures released by Hodkinson opens at the Fox Theater today through Wednesday. The story follows Caravan led by Jim Buckley across the Dakota plains with Professor Weley his wife Prue and infant Molly, joined by Michael Lafond who is driven from the expedition after attempting to assault Prue. Lafond then plans Buckley’s murder and attacks the caravan.
The piece argues opportunity favors diligent workers and notes March winds ignore hats. It suggests modern agents like typewriters boost attention, with farmers and breeders who type letters earning better results than handwritten notes on scraps. Taxes prompt complaints from those with earned income and those spared.
The Marshalltown Times-Republican quotes a thought that shifting global duty could lead to humanity aiming for Mars. The remark frames space expansion as a next step after collective accountability.
An advertisement advises adapting a diet to age and occupation, eating slowly and thoroughly. It promotes Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation to improve digestion and appetite, describing the tablets as easy to take and agreeable in effect.
Former service men with Uncle Sam War Risk Insurance cards are urged to retain their cards for quick reference of names and insurance numbers. Director R G Cholmeley Jones says many cards are being returned to the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and should be kept for identification in sickness or accident and for communicating insurance numbers.
A clipped comment from The Good Old Days in the Des Moines News laments past fashion wages, noting scarce profiteering when children’s undergarments were sewn from flour sacks and simple materials.
The Ft. Madison Democrat notes that while the proposed measures aim to ease living costs, the main flaw is the high expense to implement them. The Handicapped Dispatches report adds context from the former official views.
Poetic excerpt notes a man’s stoic response to danger and death as Tennyson J. Daft reflects in a Kansas City Star piece. The lines emphasize calm breath and courage under peril.
A homefront melodrama unfolds as Molly’s kidnapper Lafond schemes to ruin her as a dance hall girl while Buckley, a settlement leader, faces miners accusing him of cheating. A gunfight erupts aided by Cheyenne Harry. Molly intervenes and Buckley escapes as Lafond falls to the rocks in a buckboard crash. The tale ends with a paradoxical happy, if unexpected, finish.
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