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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1918
Page
2
Fox and Dewey showcase Easter footwear with stylish new year designs and reasonable prices. Trade in 5 percent for cash and invite customers to view the varied styles on display.
Estimated receipts mix with strong to steady markets. Cattle and sheep prices range across light to heavy grades with bulk around 16.85 to 17.60 for cattle and 11.60 to 14.60 for native and western sheep. Receipts today and tomorrow projected, with prospects steady to higher in parts of the report.
Washington reports revised list after collision involving the United States destroyer Manley. One officer and sixteen men dead with seventeen missing. Included are Nicholas M. Dreja first mate of 1618 Elston Avenue Chicago and Claud Mann oiler of 811 Colonia Street Joliet Illinois.
In Tulsa on March 26 Joe Sing, a Walter here, was shot by Miller, a county defense special officer, for alleged disloyal talk. Sing reportedly voiced a wish that every American soldier in France be killed, prompting the fatal confrontation.
A Grady county farm column recounts how Chickasha authorities and a county agent arrange for vagrants and idlers to work on farms. Men choose farm work over jail with guaranteed wages, and the program rapidly places dozens of workers to meet local farm needs.
A printed note misstated Joe V. Beranek seed corn as fewer grains. corrected to 560 ears with four grains per ear totaling 1 240 grains, revealing one dead grain. Other items describe Joe Malichky buying seed oats from his father and using a faw mill, 8 F Harrison preparing oats with five horses on a nine foot disc, and Harrison recent neighborhood move replacing Milt Wollrab.
Near West Chester farmers report George Klett moving into last year’s Dea residence with six harness aged mules. George Evans remains on a changed hands farm for another man. Guy Engle finishes sowing oats and plans cattle feeding. Davis sells and buys with Roy Fisher near Keota and plans a new porch. Walton lays tile on Jim Daniels eighty. spade work continues despite dry ground. John Coakley plants about nine acres of oats, no wheat.
J. J. Newlin reports feedback from six farmers who attempted thickening alfalfa stands with new seed. He notes failures after harvest as older plants deplete surface moisture and outcompete younger plants, leaving bare spots and preventing a full stand.
A wartime address calls for drastic economy to free labor and materials for the war in France. It urges citizens to save, buy War Savings and Liberty bonds, and lend money to the government to fund munitions, with emphasis on personal sacrifice and government credit stability.
Mrs. Me Carre, a poetess who translates French and Italian, operates a turret lathe at an airplane factory in Swissvale Pennsylvania. She joined after patriotic women registered for war service and says the shop is big clean and much better than a store, noting she is happy with the work.
A morning blaze at the Will Foster farm four miles southwest of Wellman caused about 10000 dollars in damage. A barn with thirty tons of hay six horses and several outbuildings burned, while the residence suffered scorch marks. Officials list no known cause and insurance coverage appears less than loss. The Foster family was away in Wellman at the time.
President Wilson cabled Field Marshal Haig expressing warm admiration for British steadfastness and confidence in final Allied victory. King George also sent a message praising troops under Haig for their fortitude and self sacrifice amid the German advance.
The British Museum houses the oldest known Chinese writing on oracle bones. Inscribed bones reveal early characters used for divination and record-keeping, highlighting the origins of Chinese script and its ancient ceremonial context.
A vintage advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as the cure for catarrh with a 100 dollar reward for unresolved cases. It claims the remedy acts through the blood, expelling poison and healing mucous surfaces, and promises noticeable health improvements after short use.
Washington March 26 General Pershing releases a casualty list naming thirteen dead or wounded including Colonel Douglas McArthur chief of staff Rainbow division severely wounded. The list shows Private John T. Girby died of wounds and Fletcher Pickens Tom Watson Winthrop S Lowery Joseph E Erickson died of disease with several others wounded or slightly wounded.
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