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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1924
Page
2
Federal agents spent 205 658 dollars on evidence last year as Prohibition enforcement fuels scrutiny. Lawmakers demand probes into air service fraud and oil lease inquiries broaden across Washington, with bipartisan talks on German relief and anti graft efforts.
The National Tobacco exposition in session at New York reports domestic cigarette use at seven billion in 1923. It notes a push for a specialized milady cigarette design, while reforms and new marketing efforts rise within industry groups.
United States swimmer Charles Jewtraw of Lake Placid won the 500 meter speed skating race at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games in Cha monix France, beating Canada’s Gorman in a 15th frame triumph.
Walter A. Johnson fifty four died in St Louis after a two month illness. Dr Alfred A Wright eighty two preacher author editor and former dean of Wesleyan university in Connecticut died at Sierra Madre California. William Worthen Appleton seventy nine chairman of the board of Appleton & Co died in New York after a month of pneumonia. Dr Edward Lawrence Keyes noted surgeon and dermatologist and son of Maj Gen Erasmus D Keyes died in New York.
Reports say foreign seal steaks are sold in Paris markets at half the price of horse meat to ease the cost of living. In imperial precincts Hirohito weds Nagako following ancient rites. Greece endures record cold with dozens freezing to death in camps. Britain’s railway strike ends and workers to return. Mussolini orders purchase of Virgil tomb to be turned into a Greco Roman garden. Northern Ontario notes extreme cold. Prussian prisons swell to 100000 plus. Berlin's ten major prisons full from wartime influx. A Tokyo dispatch claims white forces in Siberia use Lenin’s death to declare a free Amur state and disrupt Vladivostok railways.
Iowa endorses Secretary Wallace export plan while Illinois Farm Federation withholds. Wright county approves J C McCallum snow plow model for trial. Pension bureau reunites Curyea brothers after 56 years. Burlington offices plan advances. Various county actions include church mergers and soil surveys for Mahaska Fayette Wright Johnson. Naturalization deadline for veterans set. Parent Teacher drives announced. Medical society convention in Des Moines set for February. Formic formaldehyde potato treatment raises yields for R B Chase.
The article notes the 1841 introduction of the first British postage stamp designed by Henry Corbould and engraved by Frederick Heath, with earlier American contributors Jacob Perkins and Gideon Fairman. It also reports on a U S Department of Agriculture fur farm project in upstate New York near Saratoga Springs, to study fur-bearing animals and fur production.
A light exchange at the zoo highlights fashion and plumage as a speaker notes fine feathers and mentions the significance of those fashionable furs on display at exhibit 700.
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