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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1918
Page
5
The wartime housing squeeze in Washington D C drives 100 000 new war workers into the city as vacant homes vanish and rents soar. Soldiers patrol neighborhoods to urge double occupancy while want ads reveal desperate pleas from women and men seeking rooms.
Mrs Chas Breybrook of Middleville New York says her five year old had a severe hacking cough. After trying several medicines Chamberlains Cough Remedy relieved him at once and he recovered with continued use. She plans to recommend it to friends. Sold by Lemmon's Drug Store.
The United States Food Administration warns that holding coffee for more than 90 days signals violation of the Food Control Act and regulations. Slogans shift from War Will Win to Save Food and Support the Allies as enforcement tightens. A New Home Card for the coming year will be distributed December 2-4. Sugar prices in Petrograd in July 1918 averaged $3.59 per pound, about triple butter costs.
London letters describe how returning American soldiers are greeted with cheers as crowds overlap onto platforms at Charing Cross. The diary notes daily wartime adjustments from coal rules to ration changes and evolving home-front norms in England.
Discontent among workers at the Chamberlain Machine works in Waterloo Iowa was settled after talks with Capt Rex Humphreys of the U S Ordnance Department and Edward N Riley. Employees will return to duties producing seventy five millimeter shells with two ten hour shifts and time and a half for extra hours. Wages set at a minimum of 55 cents and a maximum of 60 cents per hour. The plant employs about 500 men and women.
In Cedar Falls Illinois clam shell earnings rise as eastern button factories pay higher prices. Prices climbed from 37.50 to 60 dollars per ton. Over 100 tons of shells were harvested this season with pearls valued at more than 5 thousand dollars, nine men worked the boats and harvesters, while few pearls of value were found.
No clear event or person is identifiable in the fragment. It notes income from catfish bass and pike helping to swell total income.
A vintage ad promotes Sloan's Liniment for rheumatic pain and external aches. It urges applying a little without rubbing for instant relief and recommends keeping a big bottle and asking a druggist for Sloan's Liniment.
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