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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1918
Page
2
May 11 Chicago markets show estimated receipts 14 000 with leftovers 7 001 as light to heavy shipments range from 12.20 to 18.05. Cattle receipts about 2 000 with steady prospects. Sheep receipts around 1 000 noted with market details incomplete.
Notes from BE Wagner & Co Iowa City listing grain prices and percentages for May and July oats. Included are rates 1.27 percent and 14.97 percent with references to markets in Chicago and general commodity terms.
Mrs T Neurever of Fay Claire Wisconsin and Mrs D Gilkeson of Youngstown Ohio praise Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for curing severe croup and soothing persistent coughs. Reports claim quick throat relief and reduced coughing in children and adults, with Lemmon's Pharmacy Washington selling the remedy.
A reflective note compares the inevitability of moral reward to gravity and sun warmth, asserting that doing right brings rewards beyond old fashioned recognitions. The passage emphasizes that virtue yields inevitable benefit, even if not observed in familiar instant rewards.
A reflective quote sets the stage for discussing the impact of the printing press on public thought and the shift in a statesman’s role from martial schooling to informed citizen judgment.
The planter finishes up as the crowding discs and harrows pace the work. M Kupka emphasizes timely work this season. Fred Fisher has sod ready for planting and anticipates rapid field activity once ground conditions allow.
Community briefs describe happenings across Washington County with short notes on local events, meetings, and updates from several towns. Readers learn what residents and groups are doing, upcoming gatherings, and notable notices from area neighborhoods.
The article notes widespread corn planting around Riverside with varied teams from mules to fancy harnessed horses. It highlights Edw. J. Lukovsky show‑worthy Polled Durhams, a $400 weanling calf, and stock details including 15 cows, 26 ewes with 35 lambs, and Poland China pigs. Also mentions Frank Lakavaky and Havel households, and Joe Prymek’s 58 acres of corn slated for planting before a navy enlistment.
National Prague scores note Pittsburgh and New York tied 4 to 4. Cincinnati wins 5 to 4. American League games show New York 3 Detroit 6 and Philadelphia 3 Chicago 6 11. Reston 4 St Louis 2 Washington Cleveland game halted at darkness. American Association results include Minneapolis 4 and Columbus 7 with Toledo, St Paul, Milwaukee in action.
Thelma Beckerman visits her grandma Green. Francis Hall hosts a rump social at Grandview School. Vera Longwell holds a social at Grandview Tuesday. Mehetjee returns from Des Moines Monday evening. Preston Moore takes pupils to Wassonville for a weenie roast Friday. Don Stapleton’s two oldest boys are in France and enjoying the experience. Geo Stewart drills a well for Chas Rowe.
The Epworth League votes to move Sunday school to ten o clock and host a patriotic program that evening. The service features readings piano solo address by C G EllisDusenberg, papers Keep the Home Fires Burning, Song to the Flag, Patriotism paper, recognition of services, prayer and offering with a Benediction. The event starts at eight o clock.
The piece urges personal charity to support the Red Cross as it comforts and nurses wounded soldiers on red fields of France. It frames mercy as true bravery and dismantles luxury in favor of aiding suffering servicemen. It emphasizes conscience, repercussion, and the reward of aiding others.
The Amerine family of Town City gathered to honor Granena Caldwell at her funeral, with relatives from the area in attendance to pay respects.
Shiloh Dayton reports improving health of F G Martin and notes visitors at local homes. Quarantine at Geo Bell and J L Sigmund homes for scarlet fever, rain and warm weather lift spirits. Death of Grandmother Caldwell after long illness. funeral held at home with Rev B W Petit officiating. Local groups meet for Sunday school, missionary events, and club activities amid wartime efforts.
Food Administrator Hoover orders a drive against high prices for substitutes like corn meal barley flour and oatmeal saying dealers are extorting and that substitutes must sell 10 to 19 percent below wheat flour. Washington reports confirm 20 percent price cuts for corn and barley flour and 80 percent for others. Deserter captured in Kentucky after tools found in family home and a San Francisco official faces grand jury bond in a food scandal.
The Washington Gospel Team will lead the Prairies Flower church evening service tomorrow at 7 50 PM. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Wim and Kuchera completed corn planting as Geret sold 20 Poland China hogs averaging 246 pounds at seven months. One light pig weighed 110 pounds. Gerot near finish planting with ground in good condition. Pigs performed well with 55 sows and framings noted.
An Eskimo fiddle is described as a box with a hole on top, three strings, a bridge, a tailpiece, and a short bow using a strip of whalebone for hair. The instrument imitates a fiddle and uses a drum as the native music base.
A historical note recalls long neglected pomegranates once sold in Carthage. The piece laments scarce public interest and highlights limited relish for the fruit, with a nod to past horiiouiturist activity and local curiosity.
Joe Kupka finishes his planter for the year and is among the first to start work, signaling early season progress for local growers.
The Baltic Sea derives its name from balteons meaning belt, a reference to the strait or entrance long called the Belt. The term highlights the waterway’s historic designation as a boundary or belt-like gateway.
Miss Louisa Young plans to close her school term at Young America next Wednesday and take a grammar teacher position in Ainsworth schools next year. Family visits include Mrs Charles Sthedebeck and siblings Swayie and Chas. Lee. Harriett and Tressa Phillips hosted friends from town.
Our district participates in a canvass for the War Saving Stamp drive. Local volunteers organize outreach, urging residents to purchase stamps to support wartime funding and boost patriotic effort.
A college student formed a habit of waking in the night, dressing, walking to the ocean, undressing, swimming, dressing again, and returning to his room, all without memory of the escapade on the following morning.
A youthful candidate asks for advice and a veteran campaigner warns that gauging public mood by the chatter after drinks and cigars is misleading. The veteran emphasizes a disciplined approach to understanding voters beyond casual conversations.
A reflective excerpt notes gratitude for pain and failure that lead to beauty. The text speaks of suffering, disappointment, sin, and shame, praising endurance as a path to grace with a tone of reverent, literary meditation.
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