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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1928
Page
5
Riverside residents criticize Iowa Electric Co for unreliable power with long outages. The Riverside Leader urges action and notes possible alternatives, mentioning Iowa Southern Utilities Co with a Washington plant serving Wellman and a potential Riverside to Wellman loop.
The Waver Grill on North Clark Street in Chicago was wrecked by an early morning bomb. Police found a large quantity of beer ale and whiskey inside. Sam Steffen, the owner, is being sought. A separate bombing hit the Chicago Heights Star plant front the day before, tied to liquor-running suppression by editor King Williams.
Mr and Mrs Henry Steck of Owasse Michigan welcomed their daughter Sydney Ann Steck born Saturday morning in their home.
New York August 27 The film authority James R. Quirk predicts within two years 5000 theatres will show talking motion pictures and 1000 within a year He says the talking pictures will overhaul star rankings and bring in new talent from stage vaudeville and opera The cost to install sound equipment could reach 250 million dollars in two years and newsreels will feature clearer sound from global events
Paris reports plans to gild the Invalides dome after 28 years. The French Treasury will fund about 6,000,000 francs in a next year budget to restore its original gilt finish, with modern methods expected to finish in a month.
Cedar Rapids August 27. All major highway improvements planned for eastern Iowa this summer will be finished in the next six weeks, says William A. Lee of the highway commission. Only two of seven principal paving projects in the eastern part of the state remain incomplete.
A small launch carrying eight people capsized on the Missouri River Sunday near St. Joseph. Four youths died Edmund J. Adams 12 Lyle Herbert Adams 9 Ollie Hessler 14 and George Edward Roberts 13 while four others swam to shore despite the rough conditions.
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