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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1911
Page
8
Philadelphia reports a national egg laying contest open to hens and pullets. Entries close October 1 with a year long competition at Storrs Connecticut Agricultural College. Six birds per entry, five in a pen plus one substitute, twenty five dollar fee, eggs kept by management.
Birmingham and Jefferson county conduct a local option election on liquor. Prohibitionists face a pro saloon majority with business leaders backing high licenses and regulation. Two questions ask if spirituous liquors may be manufactured and sold and if sales should be by dispensary or private license.
Schenie supporters claim mass opposition while prohibitionists show indifference. The drys credit the trial period with lifting Birmingham's moral tone, though wets counter that illicit stills outweigh the risk of open saloons.
Gov Judson Harmon of Ohio will attend a Boston Democrats outing and barbecue on the ninth of next month. Gov Eugene Foss of Massachusetts is also slated to speak. If Mason candidate Foes cannot be named, Massachusetts delegates may back Harmon at the national convention, boosting his standing in the Bay State.
Des Moines Iowa August 24 The Iowa State Fair opens its gates marking the first big show of the West for the season and runs through September 1. Livestock and agricultural displays meet high standards with daily aeroplane flights fireworks and other spectacles and amusements.
The Kansas Association for the Deaf begins a three day convention in Leavenworth with delegates to be entertained by the Ad Club during their stay.
The column notes five Texas & Pacific cars hauling oil and the Columbia School Supply Co asks Indiana railroad commission to amend freight classification on steel. Sage and sulphur hair tonics are discussed with Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Remedy offered for fifty cents. Iowa Central faces a $7,500 judgment for federal hours of service violations. Indiana’s higher minimum rates date extension. Frisco eyed for Jacksonville access. air brake exams mandated for Maryland division crews. Inter state Commerce Commission decisions promise annual savings of $3,500,000 for shippers.
John Stevens, once head of the Hill sites in the Pacific Northwest and noted for Panama canal work, will return from Europe to become the personal representative of the syndicate controlling Mexico's national railways. A new union station plan in Chicago for the Pennsylvania lines and others costs 20000 with construction to start January first and finish by 1912. Holding company stock will be shared equally among the using roads.
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