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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 29, 1909

Page

6

Nicaragua Under Zelaya Despotism and U S Intervention

This feature recalls Nicaragua under President Zelaya described as tyrannical, with the United States sending warships and marines to pressure accountability for American deaths. It contrasts with Walker’s filibuster era, noting the burning of American victims and the fragile Nicaraguan regime enduring unrest.

Nicaragua United States Zelaya Cuba William Walker Nashville Tennu Walker Joaquin Miller Leroy Cannon Leonard Grace Zeliya Knox Zelayna

Nicaragua Crisis Prompts Marine Expedition Leaders Named

The article details U S naval and Marine forces led by Rear Admiral William Wirt Kimball and Colonel James E B Mahoney preparing to intervene in Nicaragua. It notes the coastal port of Corinto and Bluefields involvement plus officers Smedley Butler Moses and Bannon and the goal of blocking Zelaya with a disciplined force amid a troubled region.

Knox Zeinya William Wirt Kimball Nicaragua James EB. Mahoney United States Marine Corps Marine Force Mahoney Kimball Vixen Bluefields Admiral Kimball Maine Smedley D. Butler Pennsylvania Marine Corps China Tientsin Pein Pekin Cuba Bannon Guantanamo Uncle Sam Zelaya

Home Course in Livestock Breeding Principles

C V Gregory explains how like produces like and the role of variation in breeding. Domestic selection improves stock by culling poorer animals, preserving superior ones, and guiding with a clear ideal to develop uniform, high quality lines.

Nicaragua as a Big Nation Under Zelaya’s Rule

The piece portrays Nicaragua under Zelaya as misgoverned and autocratic, likening it to a czar and noting a lack of checks on his dictatorship. It contrasts Nicaragua’s size and wealth with Panama, highlights a small population, and mentions limited education amid rising military strength and export crops.

Nicaragua Holland Belgium Denmark Europe America Panama Cattarangeus New York Russia Pacific Caribbean Sea Atlantic St. Louis Chicase Washington Chicago Ilinois Mississippi River International Bureau of American Republics

Carnegie’s Own Museum Proposed at Dunfermline Site

The growing cache of caskets with addresses, gold keys, and Carnegie benevolence mementos has forced storage concerns. Friends propose razing the ironmaster’s birth cottage at Dunfermline Scotland to build a museum on the site and clear surrounding land for a pleasure ground.

Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Dunfermline Scotland

Move to Save Mountain Laurel

The Boston Society For the Protection of Native Plants appeals to the public to stop using mountain laurel for Christmas decorations. The leaflet warns the evergreen is gathered twice yearly with summer uses for flowers and far larger winter harvests for church and ballroom décor, risking extinction.

Boston Society For the Protection of Native Plants

The Nicaraguan Situation as Seen by W J Lampton

Verse laments Nicaragua under Zelaya with mock bravado directed at Zelaya and the idea of U S intervention. The voice warns Nicaragua to heed Uncle Sam and suggests foreign meddling as a defining threat.

Zelaya Hark Sam W. J. Lampton New York Tribune

Land of Puzzledom II Lookout and shapes riddle

A serialized puzzle verse from Youth's Companion presents a two part riddle about halves of a word. The first part hints a visible yet unseen element and a smaller house part while the second part describes trouble, passage, and return. The whole refers to a lookout and a non round shape built by straight lines and curves.

Concealed Birds In A Mixed Verse Puzzle

A single verse sentence puzzle appears in nine lines each containing a hidden bird name. The lines reference estate glens travels baby fishing awk ward pianist king house fowls and roost. Each line embeds a bird name within ordinary text. The piece reads as a playful, phrase filled exercise.

Reginald James Ralph Awkward Henry IV France

Crisscross Puzzle for Young Readers

A missing word puzzle from the Washington Star asks solvers to place the best word into a vacant space on the scissors so that both lines read correctly using the word twice. The feature invites careful word choice and verbal engagement for youngsters.

Washington Star

Connected Diamonds In St Nicholas Puzzle

A crossword style listing titled Connected Diamonds presents four diamonds with clues such as In severe very warm a Greek goddess and a vehicle across sections I II III IV with numbered entries indicating wordplay and definitions.

St. Nicholas

Anagrams of Countries Puzzling The Reader

A playful list of country anagrams scrambled into phrases such as Erin grab at it and Dark men. Pain a goat and I sent tea-dust appear among jumbled lines. Standout entries include U S A, sir Praise and Gray men. Erin lad and Aim near offer more wordplay. Cure ado and Dan's colt close the set with additional twists. Big mule and Star U S A add to the challenge, while Pass Uri and Wan roy finish the page.

Erin

Subtraction The Puzzle Word

A word with eight letters B and two Ts R and N one C fits vowels four. It means splitting or reducing not increasing. It appears in doctor fees and life events, denotes downward change in failures and business hardship, the answer is subtraction.

Numerical Enigma and Related Puzzles Amid Wordplay

This page lists multiple brain teasers including No 489 Numerical Enigma with plane plan planet lane, No 490 Charades with word fragments like prim rose primrose and omelet, No 491 Fruit Dish Puzzle naming various fruits, No 492 Odd Transpositions showing letter swaps, No 493 Fractions with cabbage artichoke radish onion tomato carrot, No 494 Enigma a finger, No 495 Cities Rebus mixing Paris London Naples Birmingham, No 496 Diamond w, No 497 Concealed Abodes tent hovel castle.

Planet Lane Maine Patris Paris London Napples Naples Burr-ming Ham Birmingham

Parisian Sage Hair Tonic Guaranteed to Stop Hair Loss

Lemmon's Pharmacy offers Parisian Sage at 50 cents a large bottle with a guarantee. The tonic is promoted to stop hair loss and itching, leave the scalp clean and hair non greasy, and is endorsed by Mrs. E. B. Jemison of Owosso Michigan dated December 6 1908.

Lemmon America Lemmon's Pharmacy Giroux Mfg. Co Buffalo N. Y EB. Jemison Oliver St Owosso Mich Dee

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