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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1911
Page
7
A brief masthead item from the Evening Journal notes Orville Elder as publisher and the issue number 44. This record preserves the historical newspaper branding and leadership reference for archival context.
Washington reports the federal judiciary will eliminate the circuit courts today. Circuit court sessions end in 276 cities, replaced by circuit courts of appeal and district courts under a March code. Twenty nine circuit judges keep posts in appeals and assist districts. district clerks face salary limits of 3500 dollars.
An ad promotes Hyomel a penetrating antiseptic aerosol claimed to kill catarrh germs by inhalation. It targets catarrh asthma croup coughs colds and catarrhal deafness and sells via Lemmon's Pharmacy on a money back plan with a complete outfit priced at $1.00 and extra bottles for 50 cents. It states the product contains no morphine cocaine or harmful drugs.
The Supreme Court will receive 15000 dollars yearly and associate judges 14500 each. Jurors for federal courts will be summoned by registered mail. The government gains six peremptory challenges in federal jury selection. Congress members are barred from practicing before the Court of Claims in Washington.
President Taft will be guest of honor at a New York Waldorf Astoria peace banquet. Andrew Carnegie will preside, with J Pierpont Morgan Henry Clews and Cardinal Gibbons among expected attendees. Cardinal Gibbons to give the invocation and Taft will deliver a brief address. Sec Knox will attend but not speak. The hall features a decorated peace flag display.
George Ade and friends from Chicago were traveling from Hazelden to Kentland Indiana when a lone woman halted their car in a dense woods. She spoke in a broad Hoosier accent and insisted on riding, saying she meant no harm but wanted a ride. Ade resumed driving after she seated herself in the tonneau.
Some of the most miserable discontented grumblers are richly endowed with the good things of this life.
New York bankers merchants and manufacturers forecast prosperity for 1912 amid better trade signals and rising bank clearings. US Steel reports large and satisfactory business while Dun's notes improved conditions across steel copper dry goods and cotton markets. The Hoffman House will be replaced by an office building ending a storied era with legends like Sullivan Ingersoll and Conkling tied to its barroom lore. The New Theatre project in Central Park West is abandoned for now with possible revival later.
Des Moines, Dec 3 The Iowa Equal Suffrage association will use 5000 dollars willed by the late Mrs. Mary J Coggeshall to push the present campaign in the next months to defeat in the primary those candidates for legislative offices who oppose suffrage legislation. Miss Mary Safford president of the state association has been forced to go to Florida because of poor health.
Public sale to liquidate farm assets after a move to town. January 30 4 miles NW of Washington 3 miles south of Prairie Flower church at the Ben Cherry place starts 11 a.m. Livestock include 14 horses and mules 15 cattle 60 hogs plus 40 fall pigs and farm machinery including a Sattley corn planter and wagon. Terms 10 months on sums over 10 with notes at 7 percent. cash under 10. Auctioneers J B Mookhart and D F Macon. clerk R E Dougherty.
An old-time hair care idea is revived as Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy promises to restore color with sage and sulphur. The ad notes a money-back guarantee if it fails to perform and urges purchase from druggists and McElhinney Drug Co at fifty cents a bottle.
An advertisement from Lenis mon's Pharmacy promotes Merital Pile Remedy as a quick and permanent cure for piles, claiming positive results when other treatments fail.
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