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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1920
Page
10
Internal Paper Co announces further newsprint price hikes effective July 1. Telegram to the investigation committee cites higher costs for pulp, freight, and transportation. Publishers warn of market instability, potential regulatory attempts, and shifts in supply allocation to protect smaller papers.
A farmer near a deep mud hole between MARSHAL AZIOWN and Green has endured nightly disruptions as vehicles get stuck. Neighbors report repeated requests for help to tow out cars, with some nights lasting until early morning. The man laments lack of sleep and considers legal action for crop losses and health impact.
Dr Walter Dendy of Johns Hopkins announces a method to pump purified air into brain ventricles to study living brain activity. The process aims to map exact locations and has reportedly saved people from idiocy and hydrocephalus by relieving fluid pressure against brain tissue.
Railroad executives in informal talks with the Interstate Commerce Commission outline a plan for about 970 million dollars more annual revenue. Eastern, western and southern routes would share roughly 500.7 million, 350 million, and 115 million with a proposed average rate hike near 27 percent. The estimate relies on book-valuation figures and assumes no warehousing increases, pending labor board approval. Mrs. J W Downey travels from Muscatine to Harper to visit sister Mrs D W Yoder.
A gruff old doctor quips that when a case baffles him he calls in the undertaker, reflecting a blunt view on medical limits and mortality. The line appears in Life magazine as a sharp, era-specific remark.
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