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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1912
Page
6
Stanton and Floyd reconnect at a railroad depot on the way to Massachusetts. Floyd, a bright mechanic with bronze curls, contrasts with Stanton as they trade banter about work, money, and the lure of racing or settling into poverty.
Stanton and Valerie Carlisle meet by chance at a train station as she invites him to drive to her country place. He agrees to join her party in an Atalanta Six after a tense exchange, revealing rivalries, racing pride, and underlying tension between Stanton and Valerie amid a perilous road journey.
W. W. Cleland of Philadelphia, field secretary for the foreign mission board, will reach Washington this evening and speak in the basement of the United Presbyterian church at 2380.
Mr Cleland outlines a mission conference this month in Tarkio Missouri aimed at members of the First and Second United Presbyterian young people's societies.
Wake County North Carolina adopts school farm movement to raise funds for schools. Seventeen farms operated with 1,200 volunteers yielding near 1200 dollars. Farms run with rotating crops supervised by top local farmers. Proceeds fund school needs. Families join in school farm working bees to blend education and agriculture.
Mrs. Philip North Moore, retiring president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, delivered a valedictory at the eleventh biennial convention in San Francisco. She praised unity, outlined past achievements such as pure food laws Niagara Falls preservation and the Weeks forest conservation act, and urged future focus on international peace press and drama regulation factory inspection and social legislation.
Miss Julia Clarke, a Chicago girl, died when her aeroplane fell at Springfield Tih. She became the first American woman killed in an aviation accident and the third woman overall, following Mme Deniz Moore and Suzanne Bernard who died in France in 1911 and 1912. Clarke held an international aviation pilot license after training in San Diego.
Society spotlight centers on Mrs William B Leeds of London society famed for gowns and jewels. Her emerald collection grows with a stomacher bought for 140000 dollars while experts value the emeralds at over a million dollars, widening rumor and astonishment.
Timetables show arrival and departure times for No. 2 Exp No. 30 Lo. Pass No. 88 Lo. Frt at 6:06 pm and 6:25 pm, plus numerous local passenger and freight trains. The notice identifies agents H. W. Russel and F. L. Broadgater and notes daily schedules with Sunday exceptions.
A. M. Nason of near Canaan Maine suffered sciatic rheumatism blamed on uric acid. He says Foley's Kidney Pills cured him and cleared numerous black specks before his eyes. Foley's Kidney Pills are described as a uric acid solvent sold by Lenmon's Pharmacy.
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