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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1921
Page
4
A lengthy unsigned letter in The Journal defends vaccination against claims of failure and deaths. It argues vaccination has reduced smallpox epidemics, notes dangers are manageable with cleanliness, and condemns anti vaccination zealots while praising medical science and its past and future impact on global health.
The piece mocks readers who overindulge in gloomy literature and sensational crime tales. It lampoons medical quackery and warns that reading morbid or indecent material harms the mind and leads to ruin, urging readers to choose proper books and avoid bad influences.
The piece traces Rhode Island's naming and founding roots from Roger Williams 1636 settlement Providence and Anne Hutchinson's exile to Aquidneck. It notes Isle of Rhodes origin, royal charter 1662, constitutions in 1841 and 1843, Dorr's rebellion, and Rhode Island’s 1790 entry to the Union as the smallest state with five presidential electors.
Leslie M Shaw former governor and future treasury secretary delivered a sharp, humorous speech at the National Lunr Manufacturers Association 19th annual meeting. The Lumberman praised his clear style noting he traced government aims to steer between autocracy and democracy using auto driving imagery. He said leaders must be trained while back seat drivers should not steer and warned baseball and business share governing lessons.
Miss Bertha Bowman rallying five hundred thousand WCTU members to pray tobacco out of existence. She cites forty years to bury John Barleycorn and urges placing Lady Nicotine in a grave beside him, noting peaceful campaigns over militant tactics. In Zion City Wilbur Velivia advocates a tobacco ban with prayers and fists, warning that a meat axe may be used.
Davenport business slows but George Dempsey announces a $140000 expansion adding 70 rooms to his main street hotel. The plan includes a new story a wing and a marble desk, with completion aimed this fall and an elevator upgrade to modernize the property.
A 1435 Latin Bible printed by Gutenberg and Fust at Monts is identified as the ear known printed book. A copy is housed in the British Museum.
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ontario, offering $100 for any case that cannot be cured. The product claims to act internally on mucous surfaces and has been sold by druggists for over forty years with testimonials available.
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