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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1930
Page
5
The night glowed with flames and billowing smoke as fires erupted across the district. Crowds fled into streets while hotels saw guests fleeing with trunks. the blaze symbolized a broader national loss with estimates of 50 million dollars in fire losses and about 15 000 deaths annually.
A 1920s era study cites heating system failures as the main cause of home fires, with annual losses near 18 million dollars. It urges citizens to curb overheating, discard rubbish, and adopt devices to reduce fire risk, calling prevention a community duty.
Passenger and freight train times listed by Co. B. & Q. with No 23 9 22 a m and No 25 1 45 p m, arrivals at Neverians 11 30 a m, Eastbound No 26 Southwest Limited 12 58 a m, No 8 Local 5 32 p m, No 92 Local Freight 10 51 a m. trains run Monday Wednesday Friday and all passenger trains daily. W C Bell, Agent.
Dr Edward Steiner of Grinnell College warned that nationalism is drifting toward imperialism and may trigger another world war. He said the London conference could either open a finale or an overture and cautioned that nations building battleships could be building tombs. He urged swift choices to avoid renewal of war and noted Lenin’s influence as a global force.
In Ames Iowa the twenty ninth annual farm and home week opens with hundreds of farmers studying fertilizer beekeeping soil care and homemaking topics. The show features record entries and runs through the week with winners to be announced Wednesday and swine performance tests to be announced tomorrow.
Washington officials sought a full report on the Hankow arrest of a British naval officer. The incident could test China’s push to end extraterritorial privileges. China and the United States tensions over gradual abolition of extraterritoriality were discussed in notes and talks.
A brief line from the Only State Journal describes a man as courteous to the society editor yet harsher to the elevator operator, illustrating a judge of character in a sharp, quippy note.
In Washington a prominent prohibition advocate Brookhart defends his stance that liquor is a poison and drinking a crime. He recalls exposing officers for drinking and signals plans to use acquired information against enforcement laxities on the senate floor.
Ames IA Jan 27 Farmers and wives begin Farm and Home Week at Iowa State College with programs across 20 departments through Friday. About 200 staff and outsiders assist. events include livestock judging, crop talks, and farm machinery forums.
An Adlerika advertisement claims a simple glycerin mix with buckthorn bark and saline clears constipation in two hours by acting on both upper and lower bowel. It promises relief from gas sour stomach and headache and cites Sherman Bros. druggists in Ainsworth near Sands Store.
John Schafer a Wisconsin Republican congressman, known for a powerful delivery, leads anti prohibition efforts in the House. The former locomotive engineer and World War I veteran is tireless in speeches and data gathering on drunken driving and alcohol laws.
A statewide high school music series will run 36 sub district contests March 13 14 15 with 365 enrolled schools. Winners move to state titles at the University of Iowa May 1 2 3 in bands orchestras glee clubs choruses and solo events yielding seventeen individual champions and twenty three group titlists.
Berlin January 27 Whaling has moved from perilous dory harpoon work to big business driven by modern tech. Modern expeditions use 1000 horsepower motor boats harpoon cannons hand grenades and wireless gear. Mother ships are steel freighters of over 10 000 tons with crews of 300 plus and factorylike facilities enabling longer longer journeys into the South Atlantic and Antarctic Ocean under ice and snow.
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