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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1911
Page
12
The county hospital board met in regular session at the courthouse with little business to attend. They inspected the nearly completed hospital building as exterior work finishes, roof completed, and bricklayers at work on second and third floor partitions. Al Morgan of Clay attended.
A state high school basketball tournament to decide Iowa’s championship is planned for March 22 and 23 in Iowa City. Four teams with the best records will play a two day series, after an invitation extended by the state university and accepted by Des Moines officials and school representatives.
A humorous but pointed sketch lampoons the dental office as a theater of doom with the electric drill as the chorus. It mocks the dentist’s blunt honesty and the pricey craft, noting rubber dams and separators as infamous torture devices and the bridge maker as a sole bidder inflating bills.
Special Examiner Henderson arrives to preside over federal court hearings on two rate complaints. Publishers allege print paper rates Chicago to Des Moines and Mason City are discriminatory compared with Chicago to St Paul. A lumber firm also challenges high southern lumber rates.
Abraham Lichtenstein, noted military importer, was convicted of fraud and faces release in New York.
Commodore E. G. Benedict sails today on the yacht Alvina for a southward cruise to South America with friends. After last June’s wreck of the Virginia off the Cuban coast, the party plans to reach as far as Buenos Aires aboard the Alvina, a Great Lakes vessel.
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