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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1909
Page
8
Traveling men from across Texas arrive in San Antonio for a banquet at the Gunter hotel. A lavish menu features a portrait of the host and a tribute to the traveling man, praising optimism and resilience amid life’s hardships.
Springfield Ohio December 27 Those polished hotel managers nationwide may form a national union under proposed plans outlined in the local column. The note indicates leaders who run leading hotels are evaluating union formation as a means to coordinate standards and policies.
A health focused sales pitch stressing quality over price. The text argues customers should value quality and proper purpose when buying drugs and asserts the firm sources right goods at fair profit and invites readers to choose their products.
At today's meeting of the Ohio Hotel Clerks association the principal business is launching a drive to form a National Hotel Clerks association. The plan has been taken up by several state groups and was unanimously endorsed by the delegates in attendance.
Educational conventions from New York Academic Principals and the New York State Council of Elementary School Principals will meet in Syracuse over the next three days. The State Council program starts this afternoon.
Omaha Nebraska December 27 opening of one of the west’s largest poultry conventions by the Trans Mississsippi Poultry association with fowls listed from New York New Jersey and many western states.
Teachers from across Utah converge in Salt Lake City for the annual Utah State Teachers association session opening today with discussions on education policy and classroom practice.
New York December 27 Governors and trustees of the American Civic Alliance met to elect officers and accept the resignation of N Lafayette Savay president. Savay denied claims of Lafayette ancestry and said the press and friends had vilified him. An effort to repair harm and prevent disintegration was announced and a nationally prominent leader may be invited to head the alliance.
Philadelphia reports that The Arca dians a fantasy musical now in its second London year will open at the Forrest Theatre tonight marking its first American production.
The Yale Dramatic Association opens the most extensive tour in its history with a performance in Washington this afternoon. The company will then perform in Baltimore Orange New Jersey New York and New Haven through early January marking its first performance outside New England and New York.
The Pennsylvan ia Cornell hockey game set for today at St Nicholas rink is off. University of Pennsylvania officials canceled after Quakers refused to travel for a single match, seeking a two or three game series, which the rink management could not allow due to no available dates.
Major General Leonard Wood will relinquish command of the Department of the East next April to become Chief of the General Staff in Washington. His rapid rise includes leading the Rough Riders in Cuba, serving as military and civil governor of Santiago, and roles in the Cuban and Philippine campaigns.
A biographical sketch recounts Leonard Wood born 1860 in Winchester New Hampshire and his rise from Harvard athlete to Army surgeon turned general. It notes his early schooling, heroism in the Arizona New Mexico campaign earning the Medal of Honor, service under Lawton, and roles in the Philippines and Moro Province.
A London authority reports some English physicians prescribe patients to eat oysters soaked in sea water as a treatment for dyspepsia and tuberculosis.
Senator Winer, a close confidant of King Leopold II, defends the monarch’s legacy. He credits Leopold with shaping the Congo project, improving Belgian cities, and advancing architecture and public works. He notes Leopold admired the United States and Roosevelt and disputes cruelty rumors about Congo.
Census Director E Dana Durand addressed supervisors in Cincinnati urging accuracy for the 1910 census. He labeled three lies plain lies dodges and statistics and pressed for exact counts with no flaws.
Senator Robert M. La Follette appeared in the Washington senate restaurant with a neck carbuncle. Bourne of Oregon asked what the matter and La Follette joked that the enemy would have rejoiced six months ago if carbuncles had been placed on the free list.
Hundreds of spectators watched a six hole putting course lit by electric lights at the Dunwoodle Country Club. The new links were used for the first time as the town enjoyed evening golf under electric illumination.
The note from Cuba describes fattening small pigs on co coatnuts for Christmas turkeys and claims they are fine. It presents a curious local practice in a regional context.
Paul West in New York World comments on a promotion inviting women to attend a boxing championship as a display of equal rights. The piece mockingly praises women for pressuring through suffrage tactics while framing the event as a spectacle with seating and amenities for dames.
W M Parish of Palmerston Ontario endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy claiming every bottle sold last winter was not returned. The ad praises its safety for children with croup noting rapid relief from coughs colds and croup and states the medicine contains no narcotics or infusion substances.
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