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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1918
Page
4
An editorial discusses Century clubs formed to pledge long life to a hundred years. It notes many members join late in life, doubts any reach a century, and suggests longevity comes from healthy living and clean habits. It muses that joining early, even before birth via ancestral virtue, could extend life to 150 years if lawful.
Rippling Rhymes notes the death of the village merchant prince who owned the Blue Front store since 1884. It laments the lack of public mourning during wartime, imagines minimal ceremony, and questions the town’s eventual talk of his merit alongside distant news from France.
Local notes say county residents will participate on the campaign start day two weeks from next Saturday. Some older seeming residents may qualify as under forty six, and a cartoonist mocks Kaiser in a New York style cartoon. The Chautauqua treasurer reports a healthy balance and many season tickets pledged for next year, suggesting a strong outlook for an educational assembly regardless of war status.
The city of Oskaloosa appears to be growing faster than Washington, described as twice as large and expanding in population and development relative to its neighbor.
Two ambulances arrived from an undertakers meeting in Grinnell and left town quickly. A major railway wreck killed twenty to thirty people, with two cars colliding and other severe incidents. The coroner and doctors headed to the scene, but all were in the city.
A wife testifies she was assaulted by her husband in court. She describes a blow to the head and an attempt to injure her with a tobacco box. The exchange shows the court pressuring clear, slang filled testimony as the magistrate questions the language used.
Representative Fred A. Britten recalls a Chicago pet store anecdote about a woman seeking a talking parrot. The proprietor guarantees speech, but the quip ends with a punchline about the prior owner who could not get a word in edgewise.
In this memoir excerpt, the dentist-narrator recounts his fourteen years with Kaiser Wilhelm II in Berlin. He describes the Kaiser’s confidence after Italy’s collapse, his generosity to the dentist, and the ruler’s tastes and travels. The piece notes the Kaiser’s language ease, broad reading, and respect for history, with vivid anecdotes of gifts and banquets.
The author reflects on his decade of acquaintance with the Kaiser and compares a 1914 view to a 1918 perspective. He portrays the ruler as both a commanding, imperial figure and a courteous, democratic host with wide learning, a keen memory, and a versatile intellect.
The Kaiser embodies himself as final authority on history art and culture while insisting Germany maintain its military strength. He boasts of funding world peace but plans to keep army and navy at full strength. He views American collectors as lacking taste and guards his Sieges Allee monuments from vandals while orchestrating meticulous reproductions for stage productions.
The excerpt presents a creed valuing maximum feasible effort, defining work as life’s glory and the core aim of fatigue and recovery studies. It argues the point is to determine how much a person can endure without reducing working capacity, describing the gospel of work and contrasting it with non elect views.
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