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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1919
Page
4
Merchants urge early shopping for seasonable goods noting better selection and service if purchased now. They highlight winter shoes and furs, stable styles, conservative colors, and reduced prices amid labor shortages and a push for quality over shoddy merchandise.
Announcements urge readers to buy winter wearing apparel before cold weather. Shop windows display upcoming stock as merchants promise more complete critics of styles next week and encourage choosing from full stocks while available.
Chicago raincoat houses report themselves so rushed with business they have no hopes of catching up with the present demand. Many houses say they are sold to capacity for next season and instruct salesmen to book no more new orders.
The saying compares spending a dollar before it is earned to consuming the egg that will be laid tomorrow. It emphasizes delaying gratification and planning for future thrift, using a simple image to warn against premature spending.
The village barber of Egypt carries a license after exam to perform vaccination leeches cupping and basic dressings but may not order or prescribe medicines, resembling the medieval English barber-surgeon in function and regulation.
The court holds that news itself is property while noting that portions added may be considered improvements. The ruling distinguishes core news from enhancements that attach value, shaping intellectual property considerations for media content.
Local stores display two main styles for winter wear swagger belted and form fit. Overcoats range from double to single breasted with colors in green blue and brown. Prices remain about same as last year and stocks are complete with best material and value touted. Next week expected peak buying period with advice to buy now.
The exchange centers on a husband facing trouble, with Mrs Jones asserting he is jailed and Mrs Green pressing that he is out of trouble now. The fragment hints at a domestic conversation about criminal or legal issues.
Observation notes that fish demonstrate intelligence and do not bite indiscriminately, as reported by Baxter Citizen. The remark highlights selective feeding behavior alongside newfound cognitive abilities in aquatic life.
The remark suggests some people rush to chase a hopeful outcome, chasing glittering promises in uncertain situations. It implies a caution against haste and overoptimism in pursuit of silver linings.
J MK Heald former payroll auditor for D W McGrath & Son Columbus contractors testified before a congressional subcommittee investigating graft in Camp Sherman construction at Chillicothe. Heald said payrolls were padded and army officers in the quartermaster corps were given liquor and valuable presents by contractors.
New Haven report of the death of Ella Wheeler Wilcox a noted author and poet at her Branford residence The Bunglow after months of illness following a nervous collapse during wartime relief work in England. She was born in Johnstone Center Wisconsin in 1835 educated at the University of Wisconsin and married to Robert M Wilcox in New York in 1884.
The United States sugar equalization board telegrammed Senator McNary of Oregon that it is prepared to wind up its activities due to inability to maintain sugar shipments from Cuba to justify further government control.
Reports from Vladivostok say the Onesk government bank negotiated a loan of 20 million rubles from a Japanese banking syndicate to cover purchases. Washington notes this may be the loan the Omsk government recently sought from the United States.
W W McFarland purchased the Robinson and Wilson business building on the northwest square corner for 26008 dollars. The two story structure measures 40 by 120 feet with Gry goods on the lower floor and Graves studio and the Mutual telephone company on the upper floor. Deed filed at the courthouse. current owners L D Robinson and W A Wilson plan to move to California with their families next Tuesday night for the winter.
The Ohio State Journal mocks amateur speculators who pretend to be conservative investors. The piece treats everyday life as a field of reckless bets and misguided prudence, highlighting the gap between self image and actual risk.
A reflective piece quotes Proverbs on guiding a child and the return of wisdom. The message emphasizes parental instruction shaping character and discernment, urging steady moral guidance.
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