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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1924
Page
6
Mrs George Dow ell presided as guests played table games with cards letters eggs and crokinole at the Shumala Camp Fire Girls event. Ruth Paul and Beulah Phillips won red stars and day suckers while Mildred Pramer and Virginia Bates earned blue hearts and bead strings.
Regular business meeting announced for Friday at 7 30 p m at the hall. The city library will be closed all day New Year s. Mrs Livingston hosted a two course luncheon and Miss Kathryn Latta entertained friends at a dinner on South Fourth Avenue. Virginian and Vera Stutsman hosted a party for twenty little girls at their home. Mrs Gladys Williams entertained the Tuesday Bridge club with a seven o clock dinner and three tables of bridge. Guests included Mrs D D Guthrie of Moline and Miss Mildred Martin of South Pasadena California. It pays to advertise always has always will provided you do it intelligently. The Journal is at your service.
The Associated Press report from Indianapolis notes the International Typographical Union will oppose a proposed rise in second class postal rates intended to fund higher post worker wages. President James M. Lynch announced the union's stance and said executive council approved letters to members of Congress outlining the position.
Des Moines reports former police chief John B. Hammond has drafted numerous reform bills for the next legislature. The measures target liquor laws and traffic rules and include a proposal to curb immorality in automobiles. Hammond acted for the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the American Purity League.
A post election stock surge lifts prices to new highs with railroad shares leading the gains. Banks and industrials rally as investors flood in, while earnings improvements and dividend resumptions spur confidence. brokers report strong business despite higher commissions and limited loan growth.
Multiple notices list meetings and gatherings across Bethel Presbyterian, Ainsworth Methodist, W R C and G A R units, Rebekahs and Odd Fellows, with dates like January 2 2013 and January 1 2 1901 era social events. The item also notes a historical stock sale context for Northern Pacific shares above 42,000,000 during a prior panic.
Des Moines reports Iowa will be represented by experts at a January 12 conference in St Paul on grain rust prevention. Iowa State College scientists will discuss war berry bush eradication used locally, with farm bureau and farmers’ bodies sending delegates. Officials say destruction of the plant could avert about 50 million dollars in annual damage.
Ames President Pearson of Iowa State College denounced persistent hatred and ignorance in a address to cosmopolitan clubs. Des Moines officials report a governor’s commission will revise the elevator safety code after a hearing where the ASME code was adopted.
Loganport Indiana December 31 Mrs Emma Honbough 33 a widow confessed to killing four family members found dead at their farm home eight miles from Loganport after a sanity inquest conducted by Sheriff Walter Howveer.
Burlington Railway and Light Company ownership shifts from People's Gas and Electric and related holdings of the Walet(h) brothers to Iowa Southern Utilities Company. Purchase prices near four million dollars, with mortgage securing the deal and revenue stamps recorded on deeds.
Iowa coal mines have operated on a full production schedule for the past two weeks and expect to continue until near the end of winter. Prices under cold weather are stable, and transportation delays are not expected to alter schedules. Annual production is projected around 5,000,000 tons, with Midwest districts showing similar moderate activity amid occasional cold-wave disruptions.
Chicago report notes Professor J Holmes of the University of California states that boy infants have higher mortality than girls in the first year. He explains the male infant is weaker at the start of life, with the ratio of boy to girl deaths increasing from the first month onward.
Mary Roberts Rinehart tale adapted for Frank Lloyd's First National picture The Silent Watcher stars Glenn Hunter and Bessie Love. Joe Roberts, secretary to lawyer and politician John Stele, protects his employer from scandal and bears responsibility for a murder. The cast also features Hobart Bosworth Alma Hennett Gertrude Astor DeWitt Jennings Lionel Belmore and others.
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