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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1924
Page
8
Mrs Phillip Crail and Miss Marie Anderson drove to Camp Dodge last Saturday and spent the week there with Captain Crail and Sergeant Eldridge.
Mr and Mrs A E Baldrige and baby return from Des Moines where Mrs Baldrige visited relatives and Mr Baldrige attended a national guard encampment. Camp Dodge weekend visits include Mrs Rodney Kephart with husband and companions Maude Randall and Paul Brock. White Yard Co promotes porch drawings and prompt phone service.
Washington and Trust Company notes farm loans at reward rates. Mr and Mrs Rex Reece and Miss Laura Reece travel to Winfield for the fair. Mrs Adam Mayer heads to Keota to visit her sister.
Community items include residents returning from travels in Colorado and Wisconsin, visits from relatives in Chicago Galesburg and Los Angeles, and schedules for fairs in Winfield and Ottumwa. Local loans and coal offers appear alongside notices of engagements and hospital plans for Lars Redlinger and travel to Des Moines.
On the move toward Maine with General Dawes, the Republican vice presidential candidate vows a campaign focused on concrete, issue driven talk rather than generalities. He plans extemporaneous addresses, discarding prewritten speeches, including the August 29 agricultural talk.
A sequence of short notices lists residents visiting relatives in Ottumwa Muscatine Moline Davenport Cedar Rapids and Washington. People include Mrs George Stapp Mr and Mrs Dewey Hess Hazel Starr and others visiting or returning from trips with some already planning future visits or travel.
General James G Harbord warned in Chautauqua that a German Russian Chinese Japanese alliance could threaten global security. He urged stronger American armament and international protection, noting Russia and Germany would seek a seat in the Far East and warning that U S weakness invites conflict. He warned that armament competition breeds insecurity beyond the American continent.
In Los Angeles on August 21 investigators pursued a large cache of jewelry valued in the thousands, some seized, most missing, tied to the death of Mrs. Theresa W. Mars. Ex-pugilist Kid McCoy is held on a murder charge in connection with the case.
Crawford New Jersey Aug 21 four persons are believed killed and one injured when a Philadelphia and Reading passenger train collided with a truck today derailing the engine and turning trains to the opposite direction two passenger coaches overturned.
William J. Bulow an attorney from Beresford was selected by the Democratic state central committee to replace the late Andrew Anderson as governor candidate after a long session ending about 11 o clock. Atlantic reports Mr and Mrs W E Stewart died at Griswold in hours, likely heat related. Also notes visitor John Waymack of Florence Alabama and local social visits and a German police dog litter owned by Clifford Hunter.
Captain Georges Pelletier D'Oisy arrives by steamship Porthos to a grand Marseilles reception. The mayoral party aboard the Miette escorts him to the quay as the Marche military band plays the Marseillaise. Officials including Larent Egnac and Count Delavaux congratulate the aviator on his Paris to Tokio flight.
A morning passenger named Mrs. Sands is bound for Crawfordsville for a visit, with the trip described as her planned itinerary.
Judge Woodruff of Council Bluffs sitting in the in district court here today approved the receivers sale of the Des Moines and Keokuk railway to the Rock Island. The line was sold several days ago for $1,250,000.
The exchange shows a classroom moment where a teacher and rector discuss the Iron Age. Hector, joking about being rusty, prompts a lighter classroom note on ancient iron use and calendar-era naming.
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