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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1909
Page
7
The annual automobile carnival week opened in New York with the hill climb at Fort George. Through next Saturday motorists, owners, drivers and sellers will take part in races endurance contests speed events banquets and other activities ending with a grand parade Saturday afternoon.
Thousands watched as a rider flew over the fence at the Los Angeles Coliseum motorcycle track. Two spectators, Howard Piper and Charles Henry, were perhaps fatally hurt, with the crowd alarmed by the chaotic scene near the grandstand.
New York on April 26 Arthur E Boas a wealthy thread manufacturer offers five thousand dollars for information to locate his thirteen year old daughter Adele who vanished last Friday.
A mass mailing chain letter is blamed for a nationwide practice sweeping the southwest and beyond. Experts question origins and note the rapid ninefold replication each cycle, with projections showing astronomical growth and postal costs. A remedy advertisement follows for Foley's Orino Laxative.
A. J. Donovan of Peoria reports fourteen years of invalidism and costly medical care before trying Root Juice. After buying twelve bottles and using six, he claims full recovery with excellent appetite sleep and no pains. He notes health as a glorious gift and advertises Root Juice at Lemmon's Drug Store for one dollar per bottle or three bottles for two dollars and fifty cents.
In Chicago the St Louis and Chicago games ended with St Louis winning 2 to 1 in nine innings and Chicago 6 to 5 in a later tally. Detroit beat Cleveland 6 to 3 at Boston while Cincinnati defeated Pittsburg 11 to 8 and St Louis beat Chicago 4 to 6 in another contest.
The International Kindergarten union gathers in Buffalo for a week long convention with delegates from the United States Canada Australia Germany and Japan. Miss Patty Hill of New York presides as exhibitors showcase kindergarten work and scholars present papers and social events fill the schedule.
Delegates from sixteen nations meet in London to report progress and plan furthering of the movement. The International Woman Suffrage Alliance remains in session until May 1 with public meetings to be addressed by prominent figures. English suffragettes led by Mrs. Parkhurst invite delegates to a Royal Albert Hall mass meeting.
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