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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1912
Page
4
Sam Walter Foss uses a primeval calf to trace how a crooked, zigzag path becomes a city street and a continent driven by imitation. The poem argues people follow beaten paths in the mind and repeat established habits, warned by wiser voices that never preach.
Forty Washington high school graduates answered questions on birthplace and early schooling, years in high school, and what they found most interesting. Physics and German topped favorite studies while mathematics and history marked strongest standings. Plans vary from music and engineering to shorthand, agriculture, domestic science, languages, and liberal arts. some aim for marriage or housekeeping.
New York reports the Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children opens a new Farmingdale New Jersey home with Gov Wilson Borough President McAneny and Controller Prendergast among speakers. Notables including Mrs Grover Cleveland Mrs J Borden Harriman and Henry Phipps attend. The institute has saved 400 tenement children and now serves 700 annually.
Venice hosts a world audience including the King of Italy, Emperor William and J P Morgan for the blessing and dedication of the revived Campanile of St Mark's. The biennial International Art Exhibition opens as officials praise the restoration after eight centuries and a decade of reconstruction.
J W Kaye announces the sale of his interest in Kaye and Lytle grocery to J R Lytle. He thanks the community for eleven years of patronage and urges mutual settlements on all debts and outstanding bills.
Dr. T. J. Allen reports Mrs. Dewelle of Boston citing two monodiet cases with health gains. A boy gained remarkable physical powers and a elderly woman improved on an exclusive corn meal and milk diet.
A playful verse depicts a family watching Father carve the duck at table. Mother sighs as the process becomes a comic chaos with flying chips and splashed gravy while siblings brace for their share and the father navigates a flawed carving.
New York April 25. The anthracite strike is virtually settled. Miners accept a 5.20 percent wage increase over prevailing rates with the sole remaining issue the method of applying the raise. The 5.26 percent rise matches the western bituminous miners’ increase that took effect yesterday.
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