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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1919
Page
6
A seven cent social was held at the Prairie Center schoolhouse six miles southeast of Washington on March 21, 1919. Rev P H Hayley of Crawfordsville Iowa spoke on The Need of the present hour urging expanded education beyond country schools. The program and address drew enthusiastic responses.
The Iowa W C T U aims to raise 50000 dollars in ten days with 17000 kept locally and the rest to the national fund. 12000 members rally around the drive led by Mrs Ilda B Wise Smith with Mrs Katherine Lent Stevenson assisting. Campaign spreads through churches and schools as the group builds support for prohibition and Americanization plus housing and work improvements for women.
Des Moines reports that the secretary of state's office failed to collect delinquent automobile licenses and deposited funds late for interest, causing an estimated loss of about $500,000. The finding comes from Senator Perry Holdoegal, head of the Iowa Senate committee on departmental affairs.
A long list of new library books spans war addresses biographies and fiction. Notable entries include Wilson war addresses. The U.S. in the World War. Shackelton and Everest era works. nursing, home life, and teaching manuals. and adventure fiction by Farnell Tompkins Walpole Ferber and Stockton.
A friend recommended Foley Kidney Pills by J N Tohill, clerk Lottie Hotel Evansville Ind. After six weeks of constant muscle pains in the thigh, relief began almost immediately. The ad says the pills stop backache rheumatic pains soreness and stiffness and are sold by Lemmon's Drug Store.
New York on March 24 the jury trying Jeremiah A OLeary and the American Trust Society for conspiracy to violate the espionage act failed to reach a verdict after 54 hours and was discharged by Justice Hand. They found the defendants not guilty on four counts but disagreed on the remaining counts. Adolph Stern, business manager of Bull, where OLeary was editor, was acquitted.
Secretary Glass argues the Victory Liberty Loan is not a mere business proposition. He compares borrowing from banks with a national saving plan, urging the public to fund the loan through personal savings to avoid inflation and satisfy debt, praising the game-like discipline of saving.
The author argues for full participation in the Victory Liberty Loan, framing it as both a patriotic duty and a sound business investment. It warns that failure to fund could force direct taxation and stresses personal honor, national effort, and the return of soldiers to peace-time work.
Daisy Bell of Savannah Georgia writes she suffered eight years with back pain and could not work but after taking Foley Kidney Pills she can perform all her tasks. For sale by Lemmon's Drug Store. ad.
The speaker argues Germans quit during the war while urging oversubscription to the Victory Liberty Loan to finish the job, continuing the effort begun with earlier drives.
The note argues there is no known North Pole temperature record from Peary and suggests any possible maximum would barely rise above freezing, given the Pole's isolation and surrounding ocean requiring ice melt. The surface temperature would stay near 62 degrees Fahrenheit at most.
Roy Tyler, jailed on a charge of holdups, confessed to taking part in the Cleveland bank robbery of 15 000 on December 21 1915 but claimed he was in Los Angeles on December 13 when the East Brooklyn Savings Bank in New York was robbed of 13 200 and two officers were killed. Investigators doubt his timing and await further questioning. Meanwhile New York's Bible Society shipped over 40000 Bibles to aid returning soldiers.
Philadelphia March 24 Joseph Weiss twenty and his sister Lille seventeen died in a house fire that destroyed their mother's home. Weiss re entered the burning house after hearing Lille's cries and both perished from smoke.
A succinct quotation attributed to William Lloyd Garrison frames daily reflection. It asserts firmness in truth and justice, urging blunt moral clarity as a guiding stance.
The notice promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable liver and bowel stimulant. It claims indigestion improves when the liver works naturally and suggests taking one or two tablets at bedtime. The ad highlights a 20 cent price and availability at druggists.
W A White, former Des Moines music supervisor, writes from Germany to J W Studebaker detailing civilian life. He reports abundant money and open theatres, well dressed people, and bustling stores, but severe shortages of bread sugar butter and soap. He describes harsh occupation controls in Luxembourg and Coblenz, high prices, and a view of German society as materially advanced yet spiritually hollow.
A newspaper ad invites readers to mail a cutout with 5 cents to Foley & Co in Chicago for a trial package of Foley products including Honey and Tar Compound Kidney Pills and Cathartic Tablets. Lemmon's Drug Store offers the ad for sale.
In Bruges Belgium the chapel of the Holy Blood recalls a legend that crusader Theodoric brought drops of the Savior's blood from the Holy Land. The Church of Saint Sang and its delicate oratory testify to the period's belief whether the tale is true.
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