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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1922
Page
8
Local brief notes list residents and visitors traveling to nearby towns and cities. Philip Haney visits Ottumwa. Osa Elmore and Robert Randall go to Brighton. Fred Bartholomew spends the day in Muscatine. Art Minick's family travels to Tainter. Helen Greiner visits her grandmother in Harper.
Alvin Hasty and Charles Strabak visit Washington for business and sightseeing. Ainsworth and Sioux City residents travel to Washington. Mrs Gray funeral in Eddyville. Mr and Mrs Mason visit Michigan and Iowa. Wallace Studio offers 25 percent portrait discount in August. Kalona to Riverside rib injuries and car accident update. multiple local and regional residents travel to Hull Ames and Kirksville. a Los Angeles reader shares a long cross country trip. Bangkok hotel notices reference electricity service and postcards.
Edgar Fletcher visits Omaha on business while A B Moore of Ainsworth spends the day in Washington. Richard and James Clark return from Mitchell after visiting brother Emmett. Greeley Baker and relatives head from Chicago to Augustine reunion. Pants family back from Wisconsin trip. Rev McCrory and family visit Monmouth Ill. Will Roberts returns to Des Moines from Washington. John Squire group head to Wealthwood Minnesota. Rupp to California then Des Moines for G A R encampment and Chicago banquet for pensioners.
Henry Ford touring the Thousand Islands with Mrs. Ford and Dr. J. W. Thompson finds his car mired in mud after heavy rain. Local Ford agent George Gillick wades ashore but his sedan sinks and dies. another Ford pulls the party free to visit actress May Irwin at Irwin Isle. Irwin attempts to sell Ford her farm and stock but fails.
Clinton Aug 12 Leonard Manning 17 died after attempting to board a passing truck and being run over by seven tons of vehicle and cargo. Earlier John Bovnsman a North Western railway watchman was killed by a passing train on the draw bridge and John Leveen of Rock Island Ill died when a car he rode in rolled on the Lincoln highway.
Chicago's iron circle center undergoes a major building boom driven by the South Water street plan Union station plan and Grant Park project as developers replace old landmarks with skyscrapers and new facilities including two giant freight terminals a U S mail terminal a planned Olympic stadium and a Stevens hotel while the Tribune seeks an architectural prize for a world class building near the river.
Chief Justice Taft told the American Bar Association that delays stem from limits on judges and Congress must grant more discretion. He urged a commission with judges and lawyers to craft procedural reforms and a permanent rules system to speed civil justice and reduce backlog.
In Sacramento on August 12 nineteen dogs were executed for killing farmer A. Bies near Antelope after a trial without hearing. Mrs Louise Bulardi, jailed since the murder, was ordered to call in her dogs and later returned home. she reportedly defended the dogs as she watched officers shoot them.
Federal agents conducted a vigorous probe in Des Moines as they sought to determine how many still drinks were produced from cadaver vats in Iowa medical laboratories. Investigations would cover universities and colleges in the state with samples of alcohol thought to have been used to preserve bodies sent for analysis to chemists. The alcohol reportedly contained large amounts of wood alcohol. Agents also named today were investigating a recent college robbery in Iowa.
Miss Nellie Schiebel visits her friend Miss Ruth King in Blackton Iowa during a local social call.
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