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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1918
Page
4
The piece mocks the coming hour change, urging calm as people adjust to setting clocks ahead. It contrasts Eskimo daylight patterns with the anticipated one hour shift and suggests simple steps to avoid early chaos.
Walter S. Boyer announces his candidacy for state representative from Washington County on the Republican ticket. The farmer pledges fiscal restraint after the war, supports farm interests, aims to reflect county public opinion on moral issues, and favors better dirt roads while opposing hard roads and bond issues.
A poem argues that Teutons glorified war while farmers toiled for peace. It asserts war kills many, praises plow and fieldwork yet insists the sword remains the favored trade. The verse calls for abandoning armed offerings and condemns returning to warfare as futile.
The passage calls for daylight conservation to save fuel and boost garden and field yields. It frames the effort as a practical patriotic initiative and a starter for large scale product conservation and production gains.
Political announcement by Harry McCall seeking Republican nomination for county treasurer in Washington County with June primary election. He appeals to the voters for favorable consideration.
A candidate from Washington county seeks the nomination for state representative at the June primary. The note mentions Skeed and Walter Lover as related individuals in the local political context.
Edgar A. Guest portrays a boy’s longing for a dog as a rite of growing up. Ma cautions about mess and fuss, while the narrator recalls the happiness a dog once brought him and envisions the day the boy will receive a pup of his own.
A Georgia refrain describes a possum in a fig tree and a man making a pie with no axe, while a town posssum dog is let loose. It echoes rural dialect as Frank J. Stanton notes in the Atlanta Constitution. A war sock story follows a woman who knitted socks with her name inside hoping for a reply. The reply jokes about helmet and mitt use.
Malta's houses and roads rise in near white stone that reflects the sun in summer, prompting widespread use of colored glasses among locals and visitors. Various frame shapes and gloss colors fill the scene as tones shift with the heat.
A short moral excerpt urges restraint of bad temper to protect health and notes laughter extends life and boosts others’ happiness. It concludes with a fatalistic line about nature killing off the right ones.
In Empey style narrative, Lloyd deserts but seeks to rejoin the frontline. A German attack traps D company. a hidden machine gunner saves them with timely ammunition and Scots reinforcements. Lloyd finally nears his unit as the battle rages across No Man's Land.
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