Local Notes Highlight Visits and Events Across Town
Miss Grace Applegate of Ainsworth visited at the A E Applegate home and Miss Grace Stone of Ainsworth spent the day with her sister Mrs T C Davis. Miss Freda White of Crawfordsville toured Washington today and Miss Eunice Green visited Middletown. Mrs Harriet Boyer accompanies Miss Edna Tobin, who will spend the day at the Tobin home. Mrs Neil Anwyl and Ruth stop by C C Dodds, while Miss Bessie Smith travels to Bloomfield for a Sunday visit. Genuine Ford 13 plate battery advertised by Washington Motor Co.
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Grace Applegate
Ainsworth
A. E. Applegate
Grace Stone
Sheo
T. C. Davis
Edna Tobin
Harriett Boyer
Miss Tobin
Neil Anwyl
Ruth
Columbus Junction
C. C. Dodds
Mabel Buckley
Chicago
J. D. Buckle
Baltimore
Otto’ P. Dede
Local residents make visits and trips around town
The clipping lists residents and visitors in brief notes. Oscar Haney and O L Brock travel to Fairfield Ottumwa and Kansas City. Miss Mary Irwin leaves for Ottawa Illinois for work. Mrs George Oaks travels home from Wapello. Other locals visit relatives attend recitals and shop in Davenport Des Moines Baltimore and Chicago with several trips noted.
Radio features Wilma Miller from Des Moines on Drake program
Miss Wilma Miller of Des Moines and formerly Washington will perform vocal selections on a Drake university radio program airing Monday and Tuesday evenings. Local listeners are urged to tune in as Miller is well known here and friends plan to listen.
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Des Moines
Wilma Miller
Washington
Drake University
Nena Wilson Badenoch
KYW
Peterson
Lowden Declines Vice Presidential Candidacy
Former Governor Frank O. Lowden announced to Lieutenant Governor Fred E. Sterling that he will not seek the Republican nomination for vice president under any circumstances. He said the decision is final and irrevocable after full consideration.
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Associated Press
Rockford, tUil
Frank O. Lowden
Lowden
Fred E. Sterling
The Lion of Lucerne Monument Description
The Lion of Lucerne in Switzerland is a sandstone sculpture carved into a cliff side. It shows a dying lion with a spear protecting Bourbon fleurs de lis, designed by Thorwaldsen and dedicated in 1821 to Swiss Guards from August 1, 1702 who defended the Tuileries Palace against a mob.
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Lucerne
Switzerland
Thorwaldsen
Tuileries
American Spartina Townsend Invades English Coast
An American plant, Spartina Townsend, accidently introduced in 1870 into Southampton Bay at Hythe, has rapidly spread along the English coast. It thrives submerged at times and proves good fodder for cattle and may be suitable for paper pulp. its spread could affect Frenel sands by binding shifting sands.
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England
Bay of Southampton
Hythe
The Colonel's Mare Routs Odds at Lightwood Handicap
In a downbeat start under rain, Esmeralda the seventy year old mare fails to win as Teacher leads. The Colonel Sampler, famed horse owner, stages a comeback by secretly training the horse and proves doubters wrong, revealed weeks later as renovation begins at his mansion.
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Colonel Sampler
Esmeralda
Mreports
Red Fox
Lightwood
Teacher
Private use penalty notice redirects to public library
A citizen writes to a congressman about a current patent file report. The notice shows a private use penalty of $800. The congressman forwards it, and the reply states the penalty is $300 and the volume is donated to the public library.
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Patent Office
How Dorothy Danced and the Question of Graceful Steps
A playful exchange questions Dorothy's dancing skill with a witty punchline about engagements on stage. The mock dialogue suggests a light theater tone and a small local flavor from Michigan Gleareovle.
Heilmann and Cobb Lead Hitters of the American League
Heilmann tops the American League with a .468 average after 13 games, supported by Ty Cobb at .434 with 23 hits. George Sisler debuts as Browns manager at .366 with 21 hits, while Babe Ruth sits at .262 with five homers. Eddie Collins leads steals with four as several players post notable averages and totals in early 1924.
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Associated Press
Chicago
oOld
Heilman
Cobb
Hornsby
Sisler
Harry Heilmann
Detroit Tigers
Ty Cobb
Heilmann
George Sisler
Browns
Babe Ruth
Eddie Collins
White Sox
Meuse
New York
J. Harris
Boston
Simmons
Philadelphia
Stephenson
Cleveland
Sheely
Preinich
St Louis
Gerberg
St. Louis
Rogers Hornsby
Zack Wheat
Brooklyn
Grimes
Grantham
Cubs
Max Carey
Pirates
Pinielli
Cincinnati
Cargeney
Grimm
Pittsburgh
Smith
St. Louia
Fournier
Harper
Work of Thousand Counterfeiters Goes Up in Smoke Today
Authorities at the treasury incinerated counterfeit currency and related apparatus totaling about a quarter of a million dollars.Treasury officials, following procedure, destroyed bogus bills and equipment seized by the Secret Service during the past year and not retained for court evidence.
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Washington
Treasury
United States Secret Service
Auto Replaces Camel Carrying Travelers Across Arabia
The automobile has supplanted the camel as the primary road and passenger carrier over Arabia’s sands. Cars now complete the journey in four hours, whereas the traditional camel caravan took a full day.
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Arabia
Palestine Foundation Fund funds farming and schools in Jewish Homeland
A report by Samuel Untermyer shows about half of the Palestine Foundation Fund’s $5,093,550 from 1921 to 1923 supported agricultural colonization and a complete Jewish education system in Palestine. The fund, supported mainly by American Jews, funded 41 colonies, irrigation, clinics, and the Mount of Olives Hebrew University as it prepares for larger immigration and development.
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Riv
Associated Reas
New York
Palestine Foundation Fund
Palestine
Holy Land
Samuel Untermyer
Fund
America
Europe
Hebrew University
Mount of Olives
Medical College
Rutenberg
Jordan River
General Mortgage Bank
Dempsey to Give Up Motion Picture Work
Jack Dempsey plans to suspend his film activities while fight plans for a Jersey City bout against Harry Wills are finalized. Promoter manager Jack Kearns said Dempsey accepted Tex Richards’ offer to stage the match conditionally. The purse is reported at $750000 with potential gate percentage.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Jack Dempsey
Tex Richards
Harry Wills
Jersey City
Jack Kearns
Dempsey
Kearns
Wired Pickart
Weeks urges end to one year army enlistments
Secretary Weeks asks Congress to amend the National Defense Act to remove one year enlistments in the army. He wrote to Senator Wadeworth and Representative McKergle, noting the war department had not enforced the provision but resumed accepting one year terms on March 27. The message was made public by the War Department.
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Associated Press
Washington
Weeks
Wadeworth
Representative McKergle
War Department
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E. P. Schulberg
Maxime
Harrison Ford
Ethel Shannon
William Norris
Clara Bow
Hollywood
Reda Johane
Young
Olga Prinnian
Arch Best
Oxfords
Wilson's Gar
Freda White
Crawfordsville
Church of Christ
Lloyd Edgar
Wilson's
Ford
Washington Motor Co
Charles Juzeler
Muscatine
Bessie Smith
Bloomfield
Oscar Haney
Fairfield
Mise Maurine McLaughlin
Brighton
Mra_ O. L. Brock
Alice
Ottumwa
Ideal Bakery
Sadie Merrick
R . Fish
Dair
Lotheed
D. A. Royer
Keota
Tucker
Aso
Lyle
Mary Irwin
Ottawa
George Oaks
Wapello
Bert Willits
Helen White
Elsie Fratton
Harry McKay
Lucille
Davenport
Charles and
Frank McKay
Margaret Goble
Madge Hancher Smith
Clarke Hancher
Hancher
Dorothy Taylor
Maxine
Grace Statéard
Haskins
Chas. Brown
McElhinney Drug Co
James Work
Grinnell
Joseph Pacha
Viola and
Charles Rademaker
John D. Kern
Liberty
Palmyra
Eugene Martin
L. E. Larson
Bergie
Henry Ford
Ft. Dearborn
Lion of Lucerne
New Brunswick Records
Morris Schultz
Western Newspaper Union
Dorothy
Michigan Gleareovle
McNamara
Washington Cleaners
Owen McGovern
W. D. Loftiss
West End Street
John Shields & Sons
Gust Bramer
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