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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1919
Page
2
Shopping prices list items from Lyon’s for cookies to 55c per pound and 38c a dozen for eyes. Local people travel to Rock Island, Sigourney, and Los Angeles for visits and work as families return from visits with relatives in Tipton Grinnell Eddyville and nearby towns.
Nita Belle McKoon, agent, offers subscription services with price lists for clubs and magazines. Call 59 Red or write to the Journal for orders.
Ted Allen of Wyman registered at the high school Saturday and plans to spend Sunday at home. Floyd Murdock of Rock Island visited the Charles Phillips home on Sunday. Mrs. G. W. Fox of Long Beach Calif arrived to stay with the Charles Atkinson family. Mr and Mrs John Green returned home from Panora after attending the Home Coming celebration. Eunice and Gladys Hendrickson returned to Burlington after visiting J F Hemmings. Grace Mauck, visiting for the home coming, heads to Iowa City for the university year. Mr and Mrs A N Fower leave for Mounday Kansas to visit their daughter Mrs Ray Stewart.
A collage of town notices and classifieds including sales at Rothschilds and Crail's, potato and waist listings, school moves, a marriage license for Nomer A. Davis and Golda May Turnipseed, and residents traveling to Willamsburg Peoria Davenport and Chicago. Notables include Walter Rudirer visiting Burlington and Robert Brinton returning from overseas service.
The Evening Journal notes a help wanted ad seeking girls or boys posted by a Dean. Other brief items mention shipments at Rothschild's, a chiropractor Lydia Hellam, Ruth Neeley starting work, Mrs. Trier returning home to Keota, and visitors including A B White from Shawnee and Mr Talbot from Centerville visiting relatives in Rising Sun before leaving.
London reports the joint war committee of the British Red Cross society and the order of St. John will grant about 4.5 million to hospitals and institutions in England and Wales. Allocations range from roughly 100000 pounds for large hospitals to 2 dollars for cottage hospitals. A tuberculosis colony for East Lancashire pensioners receives about 430000 pounds.
A Franco Polish convention signed on September 15 plans to move 100000 Polish workers to France to relieve unemployment. The agreement aims to ease Poland's financial difficulties by establishing credits in francs and help solve labor shortages in France.
A Sunday school session discussion on matrimony prompted a girl to name the best fruits of romance as the wedding date and the bridal party. The speaker reacted with surprise at the candid reply.
Notice says Grand Army meeting planned for tomorrow at the court house. All comrades present urged. Adjutant W Moothart to announce details.
A moral exhortation urges kindness in response to unkindness. It cautions that paying back evil with evil defies personal authority and invites judgment. Instead it advocates pursuing positive deeds that yield personal reward.
In a humorous exchange, Bobby’s father questions when Moses lived. Bobby misreads the line “Moses 4,000 TB CL” as a telephone number, prompting a clarification that reveals the joke about biblical dates and numbers.
Mrs. J. A. McCutcheon offers a sideboard extension table couch single bed open book case half-tree marble top stand and a square Steinway piano at a low price. Also several odd harness pieces. Located at 25 Marion Ave.
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