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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1923
Page
1
Des Moines reports the fortieth Iowa general assembly pushed new liquor enforcement bills as it nears completion. The McIntosh bill would outlaw possession of stills and home brew materials and allow warrants in the search for such materials.
Virden Illinois reports say the search for Father John Varanik of the Catholic church extends as detectives call the case the most baffling in St. Louis police history. Authorities consider possible river search where his car was found last Saturday amid ongoing investigations.
Report from Dusseldorf says a French troop train near Trier was wrecked by sabotage with one French soldier dead and three soldiers plus three rail workers injured. A dynamited bridge near Duisburg Dusseldorf and cut telegraph lines disrupted fourteenth military cables as reserves arrive.
W C Jarnagin retires as managing editor of the Des Moines Capital after eighteen years with the paper. Announcement made in Des Moines Iowa on March 16.
The National Institute of Progressive Farming outlined a plan to defeat the boll weevil and restore southern prosperity by speeding up farming with machinery. It calls for cooperation with colleges, experiment stations, county agents, chambers of commerce, and agricultural high schools to lift mechanical standards and replace the one mule system.
Six bandits held up the State Bank of Wellston near St Louis today, lining up eight employees and three customers against the wall. They escaped with about ten to fifteen thousand dollars and fled in an automobile.
Morehouse parish grand jury, which heard 125 witnesses about masked band activity last summer and the August 24 kidnapping of Watt Daniels and Hesar Richards, found insufficient evidence to indict. Judge Odem received the report. Attorney General Coco and aides left for New Orleans to decide next steps.
Paris March 16 The preliminary conference among Allies to study Turkish counts proposals to the Lausanne treaty will open next Tuesday in London. The French noted they were again at work preparing for the meeting.
Judge J Strasky in Freeport hears juror Jacob Albright walked nineteen miles through snow to serve as a juror and apologized for being late due to family illness. He was commended and excused from service.
Mary Plumber Clemen, estranged wife of Georges Clemenceau, dies at 77 in Wisconsin. Native of Durand, she had lived in the state for years and was once a pupil of Clemenceau while he taught in exile. The couple, who wed in New York, produced three children.
The Harding party rested ashore at Cocolabola Bay club twenty five miles south of Miami after a day that included golf on Flamingo course. Mrs. Harding enjoyed her first night ashore with hostess Mrs. E. McLean at a cottage near the Flamingo hotel before plans for a barracuda fishing trip at sea.
Panomerte 1. 0m on the Norwegian coast is described as Europe's most northerly town. The coordinates indicate a latitude of 70 degrees 4 minutes, underscoring its extreme northern position near the coast.
Storms moving northeast from the Rocky Mountains brought relief to the upper Mississippi region but devastated the lower valley. In Mississippi at Savage, eight were killed and the town damaged, while Lambert Missouri reported four deaths. Relief parties moved toward the stricken areas as snow covered parts of Kansas Nebraska Iowa Illinois and Missouri.
London Mic March 16 The Honorable John Russell son of Lord Antiphill was granted a divorce today by a jury finding Mrs Russell guilty of adultery with another man.
Boone Iowa March 16 snow drifts continue to block the Lincoln highway through Boone county. Automobiles have finally been able to run on the highway since Wednesday.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions quarrels and dull wool, then contrasts with a placid, happy marriage. No clear people, places, or events are readable to identify concrete facts or a news item.
In a mountain village of Darg hestan Doctor F. R. Golder of the Hoover foundation reports a tribe considered primitive. They believe America lies under the world, think the world is flat, and live in darkness. The group uses lint rocks to fire, makes stone hammers, and practices trial by ordeal. American relief has provided aid for ten thousand starving children.
Police open inquiry after coroner's chemist links medicine bottle to the deaths of Mary F. Cummings 30 and Anna Cummings 35. Exhumation of Anna’s body ordered as analysis confirms a poison etched glass mixture in the medicine.
The piece emphasizes that mere possession of a good dictionary is not enough and urges households, hotels, and ships to actively use their lexicons rather than hoard them. It notes dictionaries should be practical and accessible, not overly ponderous, and highlights a preference for practical reference over mere ownership.
The United States Post Office plans four new stamps on March 20 as part of a complete new series. A twelve cent stamp features Grover Cleveland, a twenty cent stamp bears a buffalo, a two dollar stamp shows the U S Constitution, and a fifteen dollar stamp depicts America from the Capitol dome statue.
The fifty thousand dollar suit of Dolores Digson against baseball star Babe Ruth was filed in local county court today by her lover George Fineberg. The complaint alleges Ruth is the father of an unborn child.
Battle Creek Michigan reports the federally planned Veterans Bureau hospital for nervous and mental diseases to span 500 acres west of Camp Custer. The $1.5 million facility comprises 30 buildings, main wards, tuberculosis cottages, recreation and treatment blocks, with capacity for 500 patients and separate staff quarters.
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