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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1928
Page
6
The report covers multiple gatherings including the Kolah club and Rural Women’s club dinners, Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society sessions, Daughters of Union Veterans installation, Sorosis club activities, Pleasant Hill church society, Relief corps planning, and various neighborhood clubs with details on guests, decorations, programs, and planned fundraisers.
Several groups listed meet near mid January including Ladies Aid Society at Mrs A Andersons home January 13 2 pm and various church and fraternal groups planning installations and socials with reminders to bring needles and thimbles and attend the Moose Hall event and pot luck supper at Baptist church activities span two neighborhoods and multiple organizations.
The immediate cause of Trotsky banishment stemmed from Moscow and Bogorodsk factory disputes as workers pushed for better conditions and opposed state management. Trotsky had prior exile experience, first in western Siberia in 1898 as a four year prisoner, then in 1905 after the Saint Petersburg revolt before fleeing to Austria to continue revolutionary work.
Amusement note praises Tom Tyler's latest "Wild Tomth" at Fox Theatre Saturday calling it a breezy out of the rut western with rare bathing girl images, strong drama and comedy. Robert De Lacey directed with praised skill and F A E Pine penned the exciting story.
Frank Appelby of Le Grande Oregon travels to Chicago for a brief visit while in Washington. Mr and Mrs BE Strickler of Iowa City visit friends and attend the Moose dance. C L Reister spends the evening with his parents Hal and Mrs Meister. Clifford Summers of Kalona joins friends in town. Mrs Dale Hollewad leaves for St Louis after visiting her parents. J C Mitchel Crawfordville and Claude Flynn Kalona visit and shop with Keota and Ainsworth residents. Winnie Palmer goes to Sioux City for business and visiting friends. C H Leighty Waytanda briefly in town. Virginia Droz Keota visits friends. Grace Smith Mildred Coon Fairfield host friends. Mrs E B Morrison travels to Fairfield to visit relatives. Schuyler Livingston returns from Chicago after a short business trip.
Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray faced the electric chair in Sing Sing for murder. The sentences were carried out with mechanical precision as guards strapped them in and witnesses watched in silence. Gray offered a brief prayer while Snyder uttered a wish for mercy before the current killed them.
A historical sketch details Leon Bronstein born 1879 as Trotsky, his early radical activity in South Russia, underground years in Austria Germany and Great Britain, and an international reputation second to Lenin. It notes his exile, work in New York City Russian and German radios, and return to Russia after Lenin’s death before Stalin’s rise. It ends with a brief hard news note from Alta Illinois on rail switchman William Nash killed by an Illinois Central freighter, who had bought a home hours before in Cherokee.
Faust has been staged at the Paris Opera more than 1800 times and drawn near capacity audiences on most performances, reflecting its enduring popularity at the house.
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