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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1911
Page
3
Westminster Maryland July 1 Western Maryland college hosts a national conference of Methodist Protestant ministers. Prominent clergymen including the Rev Trenry Ostrim of Green Castle Indiana attend and the meeting extends through the week with a varied program and speeches.
Munich hosts the Wagner and Wozart festival in July featuring performances of renowned operas. The event showcases prominent composers and a slate of concerts across city venues, drawing arts enthusiasts from Bavaria and beyond.
Best for Women touts Parisian Sage as a remarkable hair conditioner and scalp freshener. Lemmon's Pharmacy offers a large bottle for 60 cents with a money back guarantee if dandruff or itching persists, claiming no stickiness and instant odor control. The ad features a model with auburn hair on the package.
The Ner and Mozart festival opens this evening at the Py Regent theatre with a attracted lineup of European stars and plans to continue in September. Leading performers from Europe have been engaged while the Moltke, a German record breaker, is noted for high speeds. A vessel launched last year will be ready for trials about a year hence and aims to be seven knots faster.
Fragmentary OCR notes a boxing or weightlifting event in Memphis with named individuals and an impending match this evening. specific names and details are unreadable.
Washington authorizes competitive designs for a national monument at Fort Recoveres in Ohio commemorating American officers and soldiers who fought at Port Recovers in 1791 and 1794. The act allocates funding for the erection and completion of the memorial and the associated improvements along the Ohio River.
The National Association of Window Trimmers of America gathers in Chicago next week for its fourteenth annual convention. Demonstrations of window dressing by experts will be featured. M Holtstadt of Jackson Tennessee serves as association president.
Berlin reports anticipated speed records for battleships during this week of the new German battleship Moltke's trials. The prelude notes that the Von der Tann previously held the record and may be surpassed as the fleet conducts its first voyage.
The HET four postponed from September due to forest shortages will end tomorrow if entries reach thirty. The tour, meant to be nationally important, saw few cars entered since the South American automobile tour, with only a handful of boards entering for a potentially profitable showing.
Honolulu July 3 The borrowers of Hawaii will issue tomorrow one million dollars of five per cent public improvement coupon bonds maturing in 1944 with option to redeem after 1931. Proceeds to fund highway dock and other major public works.
New York reports the New York Telephone Company expects a loss of 1.25 million dollars due to an order cutting the rate between Manhattan and Brooklyn from ten cents to five cents. The Public Service Commission has also ordered further reductions that take effect after today.
A July hearing in New York will examine second class postage rates with a focus on im magazines at a one cent per pound tariff. The commission appointed by President Taft and chaired by Chief Justice Hughes leads the investigation.
Prominent Jews from around the world arrive in Switzerland as the International Congress of Zionists sails toward Basel for the gathering planned in August.
In Minneapolis Minnesota on July 6 representatives of a joint committee of Minneapolis and Chicago bankers report that two million dollars of the Peavey Paper Company and its subsidiaries fall due tomorrow and will be paid promptly. The $2,000,000 is described as the bulk of Peavy obligations, with assets estimated at about twice that amount.
Report covers a drowning of a local farmer near Osceola attributed to rising floodwaters and a Central railroad fire halt. Fire damage hindered by dry weather as trains and cattle fences suffered. authorities plan inspections and shoreline searches as river levels remain high and safety crews work to prevent further conflagrations and property losses.
An extra Rock Island conductor aged about thirty was fatally injured while switching in the waols near Oskatoona Saturday morning. A sand car rolled over Nevins injuring five others. the conductor died en route to Oskaloosa hospital after the ambulance arrived.
Osceola July 31 a well known young farmer C KE Luken bi faced a roof blaze at his house as a milk filled pail bore the weight of his attempt to extinguish it with no water on hand. Milk, found more plentiful than water, is eyed as a possible water substitute in the dry belt.
Deputy Game Warden Mizener is seen enforcing regulations in Decorahia during July, conducting patrols and outreach to local residents as part of wildlife protection efforts.
An advertisement proclaims a trial box of Miller's Dyspepsia Tablets to end indigestion this day. It claims quick relief from dyspepsia symptoms, improved appetite, better sleep, and restored energy after a few days of use at any good drug store.
Fragmented OCR style text recalls Camp Dodge activities with references to teachers, troops, and a night parade. Mentions Colonel Wot and a march to a final battle line in a wartime context. Narrative hints at disruptions and a lasting impact on personnel and morale.
Spencer Iowa physician of long standing Dr 44 Collester was fatally injured Saturday afternoon when his auto collided with a Milwaukee freight train at a crossing. He was among the city's oldest practicing doctors.
In Iowa on Saturday Judge McPherson ruled that a single presiding judge is sufficient for the interlocutory petition in the express company rate case. The express firms sought three judges, but the decision preserves the Iowa railroad commission's power to set express rates amid a dispute between commissioners and the carriers.
M Stewart of 1034 Wolfram St Chicago reports relief from hay fever during hot summers using Fobey s Honey and Tar Compound. He notes many others share similar relief and credits the product, sold by all druggists.
The text claims Hindu mythic beings used flying vessels called aeroines or similar conveyances. It suggests serial navigation is not new and associates these flights with sevatas, heavenly beings, in mythology, noting a European claim context.
Mr Perry A Pitman of Dale Te says he was bedridden four months with kidney and bladder trouble and gall stones. One bottle of Foley’s Kidney Remedy cured him well and sound. Ask for it, for sale by all druggists.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions names and items in a cryptic style. It references age related phrases and a dramatic list of odd terms, with scattered mentions of literature or gurus and equipment. The readable content is minimal and lacks a coherent event or clear subjects.
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