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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1925
Page
5
WALINGTON D C March 4 President Coolidges inaugural address presented a concise message stressing fair wages for labor, balanced budgets, tax savings, and US non entanglement while urging strong tariffs and continued world peace efforts. The speech reinforces voter confidence from 1924.
Argentina faces a radio boom with nine million people and two million dollars spent annually on radio outfits. Four Buenos Aires stations exist, and the Radio Club Argentina, with 900 members, spearheads a forthcoming exposition to fund a club house and experiments.
Crawfordsville reports visitors from Mr and Mrs Lee Lease in Washington yesterday. Fred Sipe and daughter Lucile relocate to Fairfield. Miriam rooms at J B McCleary home until school ends. Local basketball teams traveled to Olds. second team opened season with a 12 to 9 loss, first team 18 to 7 loss refereed by Moore of Mt Pleasant.
The departure of Jules J Jusserand ends a 22 year era at the French embassy as Washington’s diplomacy shifts. The British embassy moves to a modern site near the Naval Observatory while the Austro Hungarian building is now a dyeing shop. Embassies from new nations rise along upper Sixteenth Street as social ties endure among former enemies.
The first National release Ponjola a vivid South African life photoplay stars James Kirkwood Anna Nilsson and others. It follows an English woman who hides as a man in the Rhodesian gold fields battling ponjola and risking her life for love amid murder and trial. The show runs next Thursday and Friday at Pax Theatre with a noted all star cast and high critical regard.
London critics rally to defend the saxophone as discussions in newspapers highlight the instrument amid debates over jazz performers. Letter writers argue for the saxophone’s artistic value and contribution to modern music.
A biographical sketch traces Antoine Joseph Sax born in Dinant Belgium on November 6 1814 to a reed instrument maker. He studied at the Brussels Conservatoire and excelled on flute and clarinet. Moving to Paris he produced the first saxhorn in 1843 and the soprano saxophone in 1846 followed by the alto tenor and baritone. He died penniless at age 68, largely forgotten in musical circles.
A distorted note discusses the burden of intellect required to pressure others. It mentions perceived limits of self based on mental effort and the strain of measuring intellect against expectations.
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