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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1912
Page
8
The Journal offers illustrated New Websterian 1912 Dictionaries via six coupons plus cash. Three bindings available full limp leather four dollars, half leather three dollars, and cloth two dollars. Postage adds twenty two cents. Readers invited to inspect at The Journal office.
The Soo withdraws from passenger service between St. Paul and Duluth while Pennsylvania yards at Sandusky scale for 4000 cars and improvements total 40000 dollars. Locomotives at Lackawanna Kingsley shops will weigh 250000 pounds and five serve Hoboken to Elmira with three to Hoboken to Scranton. Chicago and Northwestern trims 12 Chicago suburban trains and 15 more across five divisions to conserve power. South Carolina requires mileage tickets issued locally. Pennsylvania stops placing wooden chair cars between steel coaches and sleeping cars, now coupling them at train rear for safety. Southern Pacific disseminates 243000 monthly postage stamps branded with company initials. National baggage committee drafts six-year baggage-rate tables and limits free trunks to 45 inches. Texas top-line loggers face reorganization to qualify as common carriers. several lines with heavy freight may convert to standard carriers.
The McKee building hosts a yearlong display of pupil handiwork from Washington grade schools. Miss Pleatus Burgess leads the exhibit featuring sewing by fifth to eighth graders, drawing from all grades, and penmanship from most classes. Thursday Friday and Saturday mark the viewing days.
Reports from Paris recount five separate female suicides on a single day. A mother and her daughter, a lyric artist, both ingested potassium cyanide after three days without food. An 18 year old Austrian girl threw herself under a train at Marbeuf station. A 40 year old woman took arsenic, and a 27 year old woman shot herself through the heart.
Animals navigate using sight memory and smell. The fox could smell his way home if suddenly blinded, illustrating reliance on scent.
A tablet named Digestit is claimed to relieve indigestion instantly after meals or when distress starts. The ad states two or three tablets stop fermentation, ease discomfort, and allegedly cure dyspepsia, with Lemmons Pharmacy selling the product on a money back guarantee.
A humorous critique of musical profession and education. It satirizes piano and vocal teachers, foreign training, conservatories, and critics, highlighting low pay, inflated promises, and the chaotic life of a musician. It ends with a Punch cartoon caption about a sparring pugilist and law and order.
F R Weiss of Racine Wisconsin suffered an acute kidney ailment with back ache. He attributes his recovery to Foley Kidney Pills saying his back improved in days and the trouble has not returned. Lemmon's Pharmacy supplied the pills.
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