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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1918
Page
8
Saturday is the last day to volunteer. Drop in at the court house to purchase thrift stamps at 25 cents each. Sixteen stamps plus 16 cents in May yield a war savings stamp with a $5 maturity, offering a favorable return.
Local merchants offer shoes and butter at low prices while tailor services promise cleaning and pressing. Social notes mention visits from Misses Ellen Abbott and Emma Cavin to J A Hillhouse, and Mrs J R Van Pelt inviting her ill son Robert, a high school instructor, home from Mt Vernon.
Business leaders decide to concentrate thrift stamp sales in the south room of the post office starting next Monday. A clerk or clerks arranged by local merchants will handle sales during business hours, removing stamps from banks and stores to this dedicated post office room for improved service.
Local advertisements mention a Rheuma plan from Lemmon the druggist. Other notices note Mother's Day greetings from France to Mrs. Limerman and travel plans including Rev. Clapp’s B Y P U address at the Baptist church. There is also a subscription offer for Delineator Everybodys Magazine and a report on Richard Miller serving in the engineering corps in France.
A First Ward Committee message urges immediate enlistment and purchase of thrift and war savings stamps, warning that after this week the reader may be drafted and stressing the duty to defend American principles during the crisis.
A reflective tune praises persistence and bold resolve as doors to fortune swing open. The verse suggests steadfast effort attracts favorable outcomes and rewards.
Captain Norman MacQueen postpones his lecture At the Point of the Bayonet due to scheduling issues and may not return to Washington soon. Wilber Miller and Rude Warfel report storm damage in Illinois as they travel from Tobin to Helfontaine, and Mary Tobin’s funeral is planned for Saturday. James Jeffrey, known as Jay Jeffreys, returns to town to lecture in schools and churches on youth morality, after years away, and is described with updated appearance.
The text explains that the human ear detects tones above about 25 000 vibrations per second, with whistles reaching 60 000 per second. The upper detectable rate varies with age, doubling from about 25 000 at sixty to 50 000 at sixteen.
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