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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1909
Page
8
Mrs. D. B. Romig and two children of Spickard Missouri returned home after visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Buxbaum near Grace Hill. There were no sessions at the High school today due to a furnace malfunction.
The Thirty third Iowa General Assembly opened with both houses organizing smoothly and set to hear Governor Garst. The session signals plans to modify primary election law and consider an insurance department. Inaugural events, legislative appointments, and debates over liquor law enforcement also headline the opening as two conventions press reform efforts.
Washington report on cabinet speculation as Taft era approaches. It notes efforts to preserve ICC powers, mentions Knox as a likely secretary, and recalls past surprises like Charles Emory Smith and Luke Wright. It also highlights the cottonseed oil boom boosting US industrial interests.
The Jacksonian Club of Nebraska hosted a banquet in Omaha at the Paxton Hotel with William J. Bryan as the principal speaker. Governor Shallenberger spoke on Nebraska and Bryan closed with a speech on What of the Night praising Democratic victories and urging permanent clubs, local papers, and ongoing education for future success.
Duchess Lily of Marlborough dies in London at Derpendue Dorking from heart failure. Daughter of the late Commodore Price of New York, she married three times. Her first husband was Louis Hammersley of New York, then the eighth Duke of Marlborough whom she wed in 1888, and later Lord William Beresford.
The ad proclaims a $100 reward for any catarrh case Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure claiming it cures constitutional disease by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It urges readers to send for testimonials and lists Toledo Ohio as the company location with product priced at 75 cents.
Local items report a Vienna bakery offering a wide cookie line at low prices. Mrs Hervey Bell visited sister Miss Belle Kilgore in West Chester. R M Wilson family moved from South Marion Avenue to the Wright property on the Heights. Mrs Krabil returned home to Muscatine after visiting her mother near Wayland. Mrs J F Medley of Rock Island lunch counter goes to Kansas City for business. Mrs J W Kiefer and brother Frank Grothe travel from near Richmond to Harper for their father’s funeral.
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