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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1919
Page
6
The Kolah club ladies entertained their husbands with an oyster supper Thursday at the home of Chas. Jackson. The social event included supper served by the ladies as part of a cordial evening.
A bill aimed at curbing hotel price gouging cleared the Senate by a 45 to 0 vote. It requires room rates to be posted in each room and prohibits changes within thirty days of notice to the hotel inspector. The measure also sets standards for ventilation sanitation and inspections.
A January bulk buy lets the New York Store sell about one hundred Wirth mer waists at the old price of 1.90 dollars each. The fast-moving stock precedes new March and April models priced at 1.59 dollars. Manufactures have kept up quality while prices rise, the paper notes.
SWAN, March 31. S L Hunter found a large egg weighing about five ounces in a nest. His wife said it belonged to the goose family. Postmortem revealed a hen egg with three fully developed yolks. Hunter files affidavit claiming the stunt unprecedented.
Sunday services at the Baptist church drew a large attentive audience with a refined program led by the orchestra and choir. The church announced the Every Member Canvass met its vocal and benevolence budgets, signaling strong support for future local and missionary work. Rev J S Corkey of Winterset will speak at the Keokuk presbytery opening meeting next Monday and Tuesday, April 7. Sergeant Fred W Dolies sent souvenirs from St Nazaire with a wartime letter noting German insignia and lumber operations. the message details postings, ship movements, and plans for future deployment near Bordeaux and Dax.
The road bill drafted by the Joint highways committees of Iowa’s 38th General Assembly was introduced in the Senate last week and placed on the calendar while also being introduced in the House. It is expected to become a special order soon and pass with few amendments. The plan offers counties an optional system to establish hard surfaced roads and aims to create a complete intercounty pavement network. It also fixes state and federal aid shares and the assessment method for construction funding.
In a terse report a man finds himself in deep water before reaching the swito with another man involved. The incident centers on the struggle and the apparent attempt to reach safety or assist. Further details are limited in the fragment.
Luther Gormley was a passenger to Washington Saturday. Joe Fletcher returned from New Jersey where he was discharged from the army. Mrs. Ralph Ross and Delia Fletcher visited from Wayland and Winfield. Circle A Ladies Aid held a market sale in the former meat market shop and cleared about 25 dollars. W. G. Robertson returned from Cedar Rapids. Mr. and Mrs. McCracken of Thornburg visited the Hayley home. Hazel Anwyl, Lee Huston, and Victor Neiswanger came home from Mt. Pleasant for the Sabbath. Bruce Lease returned yesterday from Grinnell for a short vacation.
The passage explains wind speeds from gentle to great, giving approximate ranges of five, twenty to forty five, and eighty to one hundred miles per hour. It also notes the earth’s rotation about its axis at about one thousand miles per hour, the earth’s orbital speed around the sun at sixty six thousand miles per hour, and the moon’s velocity, with further details incomplete.
Pearls from Australia vary in shape and color with white and yellow varieties. Smaller than ten grains sell by the ounce, larger by the grain. White pearls go mainly to Europe while yellow ones go to India. A good white pearl ounce can fetch up to £100, though sometimes only a fifth of that. Yellow pearls average about half the value of white.
The piece argues diamonds derive value not from utility but from rarity and cost, plus a lingering human fascination with bright, colored surfaces worn on the body. It notes the ancient urge for adornment persists despite diamonds’ limited practical abrasiveness.
Classified note advertises experienced carpenters and day labor with a contact name Ralph Hesseltine and a phone reference 806. The terse listing suggests nearby service needs and a local contractor contact.
Gen. Amado Aguirre says Japanese corporations receive concessions to exploit agricultural lands in Lower California. Concessions fully authorized by the constitution regarding territory and shoreline. Aguirre asserts no Monroe Doctrine conflict from the rights granted.
In Hammond Indiana five citizens sue two constables for raiding their homes for liquor amid Prohibition era fears. They seek $25 000 in damages and ask the court for an early decision on whether police may invade private residences to seize liquor stored for the drought.
Milwaukee March 21 Great Lakes shippers decide to appeal to the government to revoke the order forcing railroads to divorce their lake steamship lines. Conference delegates from across the lakes argue the breakup is needed to revive lake shipping to former levels. They say the order followed shippers demand and railroad owned lines limited shipping connections.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels launched the Victory loan drive with a $5,000 subscription and a patriotic slogan match the navy. The official campaign starts April 21, but Daniels made his pledge on the eve of departing overseas.
In Warsaw on March 31 a grave anxiety grips officials over reports a German force operates in Lithuania with artillery against bolshevist coast defenses. The fear is this may permit Germany to retain Danzig and link with Russia.
Des Moines reports the Iowa Assembly will take up a controversial road bill as a special order of business with narrow margins for passage. The Rathbun pardon probe looms large, and potential impeachment talks threaten adjournment, while Allen may resign and Walter Ramsay could succeed him.
Paris reports American troops in Paris show a temperate conduct. At the Hotel Rochester in Paris ten thousand soldiers have used the Y M C A hostelry since November with only two notably inebriated. Secretary F S Littlefield notes most serve art and historic interest, joining Y trips to Paris and Versailles. The Rochester offers two francs a night, far below Paris hotel rates.
Adel Iowa March 21 Leon Myers a fan of Henry Myers is serving in France. Two years ago he plowed corn with a team of mules later sold to Walt Knapp of Redfield. Myers wrote he recently recognized the mules in a passing army unit and inspected them to confirm they were his old pair.
An unusual reflection frames the chamber of sickness as the chapel of devotion, offering a quiet, hopeful view amid illness. The statement ties spiritual space to care and endurance, suggesting meaning through suffering.
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