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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1922
Page
8
Delbert Badham traveled to Ainsworth this morning to visit Dwain Hazen, meeting at Hazen's home and discuss local matters.
Gothenburg reports a new radiophone service to guide herring fishermen by radio from Gothenburg central. The system will relay exact fish locations weather forecasts and news to smaller vessels improving efficiency and catches. Experiments are centered in Stockholm with Fred Skala visiting Highland township.
Winfield resident R. L. Van Syce traveled to Washington yesterday. A brief local note mentions his visit amid city chatter. Por Prompt Taxi Service advertises Call 200.
Various residents visit relatives in nearby towns while others plan holiday outings. Local banks promote Christmas Savings Clubs as residents join early, with names like Washington National Bank highlighted for savings and service.
The Kaw tribe of Oklahoma elects Lucy Taylah Eads as chief, the first woman to hold the post since 1908. She vows to press a $15 million land-claim against the U.S. government with Osage support aiding a Washington delegation. Chief Lucy, a nurse educated at Haskell, partners with husband John R. Eads as they lead a thrifty family on an 800 acre allotment.
ISTO Maxwell proposed light waves as electromagnetic disturbance in the ether. In 1806 Marconi applied a provisional specification for apparatus signaling by electric waves.
Cecil Webb Johnson says women eat too much while Sir Malcolm Morris cautions they eat too little. Sir James Chrichton Brown comments that all three are English medical men famed as dirt experts.
A brief explanation of totems as names and emblems of kinship groups among Native peoples. It notes totems often are animals or plants linked to a group's hunting or patron symbolism.
A museum in South Wensington London preserves a rare artifact linked to the Comet, the first passenger steamboat seen in European waters, highlighting its historic propulsion engine.
The text outlines French military service requirements including active service for 12 months, reserve obligation of 18 years and 6 months, and territorial service of 10 years. It notes a citizen is subject to an association of 30 years in the army.
The West Chester Baptist held a Christmas pageant last Friday and repeated it on Christmas Eve due to large attendance. The event depicted scenes from the birth of Christ with prophecies, shepherds, innkeeper, and wise men, complemented by choir carols and a Bethlehem town backdrop with colored lights and angels. Superintendent W Al eet and assistants earned credit for staging the production. the note also mentions a move of Mrs. M P Miller into an apartment over the Commercial Bank.
The Swedish experiment station reports extensive rain of tree pollen on two fire ships located twenty and thirty seven miles from shore. Pollen from algae is noted to have traveled as far as two hundred miles.
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