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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1920
Page
5
Ora Williams, Iowa state editor, calls for fewer committees and fuller duties to speed code revision. He urges reorganizing rules, enacting special revision rules, and reference of all 253 code bills to proper committees to finish work by spring.
Ellis Island immigration commissioner Frederick A. Wallis led hotel delegates on a culinary inspection to show meals can be served for 17 cents. Caterer D. T. MacGowan explained low bid purchasing and 1.95 percent monthly profits as the way to 37 cent dinners. Examples included breakfast rice with milk and prunes, lunch beef soup, Irish stew, and lamp hash with coffee.
Seizure of the Jackson and Herancourt breweries in Cincinnati was to be completed today after samples taken from the plants showed alcohol content above legal limits. Internal Revenue Collector Stephen McGrath received authority from Washington to take over the breweries, with a third plant possibly to be seized.
Spokane wage case verdict grants Elizabeth Rounds 4200 for twelve years of domestic work against Minnie E Galbreath who argued she owed room and board after Rounds came from Scotland at 18. The case framed as breach of agreement over labor and residence.
Mrs. Nettie Adkins of Altoona Iowa credits Taniac with restoring her health after four years of poor appetite stomach distress and sleepless nerves She reports immediate improvement including better appetite steady nerves restored sleep and increased strength Taniac is sold in Washington by Sherman Bros Wellman by Mac Gugin Drug Co and by leading druggists.
Governor W L Harding proclaims Thursday November 25 1920 as Thanksgiving Day in Iowa. He urges residents to refrain from labor, gather with family and in churches, and give thanks to Deity noting gratitude for temporal provisions and spiritual guidance. Des Moines signed November 16 1920 with Secretary W C Ramsay.
Metro presents The Mutiny of the Elsinore at the Fox Theatre with an all star cast led by Mitchell Lewis as John Pike. Helen Ferguson Noah Beery Casson Ferguson and others support in a film adapted from Jack London’s novel about a brutal crew mutiny at sea. Directed by Edward Sloman with Edward Jackson Rose as photographer.
Des Moines Navy 22. Sheriff elect Robb to meet with supervisors on November 22 to discuss reducing auto lease costs and potential deputy layoffs. He expressed a wish to cooperate and to maintain only the necessary number of deputies.
Clarinda Nov 22 F Hugo Nardi a millionaire wholesale dry goods merchant of Mexico City visited the A A Berry Poultry farm. He is a poultry fancier and merchant and purchased and shipped a large order of purebred chickens turkeys geese and rabbits to Mexico.
A compact aphorism attributed to Disraeli highlights that success rests on being prepared when chances arrive. It underscores preparedness as the key to seizing opportunities.
Governor elect Nate Kendall accelerates with the joint code revision committee for the thirty ninth general assembly aiming to finish code revisions during the regular session. He hopes an extra session will not be needed and notes extensive prior inquiry. Kendall plans to outline policies and appointments in his message to the assembly and returns to Des Moines for the November 26 committee meeting.
Stockholm dispatch reports that newspapers in the capital declare President Wilson is probably awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, with speculation centering on the American leader’s role in promoting peace.
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