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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1928
Page
3
An explosion wrecked a public bath house four blocks south of the national palace in Mexico City last night killing 20 people and injuring 49. Many burned badly, with several residents in nearby tenements injured as buildings were damaged and bathers rushed into the street in agony.
Radio listings outline programs from WVHP Detroit Wallaces opera Maritana on CNR network and golf talk with Grantland Rice on WJZ NBC concert bureau artists and Maxwell hour on WJZ. Listings note program start times in CST and network assignments for WEAF and NBC.
West Chester correspondent notes heated talk over graveyard inscription options as the Hoover nomination looms. He also visits the Kline brothers north of Keota, praising lime and phosphate treatment on combined 860 acres, predicting doubled hay yields and strong profits from well managed land.
Mrs D W Dayton and children returned from visits in Oskaloosa and Des Moines. Warren Eugene Stewart born Saturday in South Bend Indiana. Mrs Stewart previously Mildred Crone. D N Reed of Los Angeles arrives to visit sister Mrs Charles Nicola. John Springer Jr of Palo Alto leaves for Chicago and New York to begin a summer position with Investment Trust Co. at New York. Miss Nannie Springer recalled as former librarian and county superintendent. Mrs Hattie Gordon seriously ill with pneumonia. Mrs Ed Bell of Oskaloosa visiting Mrs Ed Sullivan en route to Eldon. Mrs Martin Swift returns from Davenport after visiting son Richard D V Swift. D F Maron, auctioneer. Fern Duncan returned from Cedar Rapids. Sylvia Kober of La Porte City to Cedar Rapids for visit. attended Myrtle Boice wedding in Washington. Taxi service notes. Enna Jettick Hearth Shoes and Hattie Marie White visit. Miss Kathryn Latta leaves for Chicago then New York to sail for summer vacation via Europe news.
Ames Ia June 20 contracts for grading paving and gravelling and for bridge and culvert construction totaling 719986 11 on the primary roads of 11 counties were awarded today The paving projects in Bremer and Decatur counties covering 24.67 miles accounted for most of the total 628125 89 Read the Classified Ads.
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