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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1923
Page
6
Postmaster Stein of Wierton West Virginia assures patrons that no letters are delivered late and urges customers to check all mail boxes including the cellar. He jokes that if mail is missing, blame the postmaster and demand another search, even after every freight or hand car visit.
The Savory Hotel in London relaid a ballroom floor using Balkan oak aged near Sofia for ten years and baked twelve days at 100 degrees to ensure resiliency. Nine thousand two hundred oak pieces were laid and pressed by workers for thirty six hours with electric irons to shape the surface, designed to bear 250 tons of dancers.
The Home Economics Department Evening Section plans a Tuesday meeting led by Mrs. Jay McNamara on East Jefferson Street. Members will bring gifts for children at Perkins Hospital.
The Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern railway company was granted an injunction restraining Cedar Falls from enforcing an ordinance that would compel motor buses to follow specific routes within city limits. The dispute centers on alleged discrimination between its buses serving Cedar Falls and the Iowa State Teachers College on Normal Hill and rival company buses.
Porto Rico posted a trade surplus of 10.35 million dollars for the year, with total trade at 154.04 million. Exports reached 82.29 million and imports 71.94 million, led by sugar, fruit, cocoa, cigars, and manufactured cotton goods, while U S trade rose to about 141.75 million.
An analyst reports Vienna voting on October 28 shows men casting 474000 ballots and women 554000. Socialists polled 276000 men and 295000 women while Christian Socialists drew 137000 men and 261000 women.
Pravda editor voices alarm over local election results in northern Russia and Siberia. Rural districts show anti Soviet candidates sweeping victories, with Moscow province near the city limits of Moscow illustrating the trend.
The Des Moines Capital notes seven hundred communist candidates elected with nearly seven thousand non party choices. It cites Bukharin urging renewed propaganda and the New York Times analysis showing central Soviet government unthreatened. Local soviets and congresses show high communist influence in cities and provincial bodies, suggesting Moscow’s minority rule endures.
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