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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1918
Page
8
A collage of short notices, ads, travel mentions and family news from Washington county Iowa. Items include medical and retail promotions, approaches to Rheumatism cures, shop offers from Lemmon’s Pharmacy and Crail’s store, personal travels from Chicago to Burlington, births and birthdays, military service notes, and a Cambridge class of 1899 reunion with a member enlisting for foreign service.
Des Moines reports a new war time rule curtails all building projects over 2500 dollars. County defense councils will screen plans, sending recommendations to the State Defense Council and then the War Industries Board, effectively pausing nonwar construction. A State Defense Council meeting Friday will discuss the plan.
Word reached here that Major S W Brookhart, chief instructor at the military rifle school Camp Perry Ohio, has been promoted to lieutenant colonel. The camp, flourishing, sends officers from cantonments for a month of life shooting instruction. Brookhart is known as a top instructor in marksmanship.
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Cyrus Chapter No 13 Royal Arch Masons schedules a called meeting for Wednesday evening September 18 at 7 o’clock to conduct Past and Most Excellent Master degrees. A large attendance of companions is requested.
Notice from The White Way Garage announcing B C Smith's retirement and a call for all debts to be settled immediately. The business will continue by W T Clark and F A Heinzman, asking creditors to adjust books for final settlement.
Rock Island station 4 PM Thursday. Community Club members gather to greet the special train carrying the Band and about fifty Burlington businessmen. President Jay J. McNamara urges prompt attendance.
The painters union calls a meeting this evening with P. Cnossen as president. The notice lists September 18 as the date of the gathering and urges member attendance.
Ames Iowa September 17 The Army enters campus life as the big Ames gymnasium becomes a dining hall for 2000 men under John J Nelson the former local restaurateur Also commandeered nearby fraternity and rooming houses and is building temporary barracks to house soldiers by October 1 The main floor remains available for athletics or military duties
An agent advertises renewals and subscriptions for Woman's Home Companion at 1.50 per year, with a price rise to 200 after October 1. Calls to Nita Belle McKeon of the Journal of 59 Red. Also offers renewals for other magazines and clubs valid until October 1.
Eider ducks proliferate across Norway provoking conflict with fishermen. Eiderdown producers face legal protection yet suffer economic losses as birds damage fish spawning beds, especially hampering Lebesters.
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