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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 12, 1912

Page

3

Being President a Steady Load From 6:30 to Midnight

A detailed outline of a typical day for the President, Taft, describing morning mail with stenographer at 6:30, breakfast, public receptions, private meetings, cabinet discussions, lunch, continued appointments, outdoor recreation, and late-night study. Notes that official interruptions persist at all hours and summer routines differ little from winter.

United States White House Taft Carmi Thompson Roosevelt White Lot Philippines Cuba Ia Great Washington Congress Chevy Chase Rock Creek Park Department Beverly

May Stewart at Graham Theatre Promises Noted Shakespeare Night

May Stewart and her company bring Twelfth Night to Graham on Mon Sept 16. The Eastern star has earned acclaim across the South and East, with rising fame in Shakespearean roles alongside Mariowe. Prices range from 25 cents to 1.59 dollars.

May Stewart Graham, Mon Miss Stewart Miss Mariowe

Baseball Results From The American and National Leagues

Baseball results across American and National Leagues with scores for Chicago Boston Cleveland Washington New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St Louis Detroit and others. Also includes American Association Western League Three Bye League and Wisconsin Illinois League standings and recent game outcomes.

L. P.C Detroit Phileria Cleveland Ob New York Chicago Loula St. Louis Pittsburg Art Brooklyn Cincinnati Boston American Association Min‘ap'is Milwaukee Corimhus St. Paul Toledo Louteville Kan Ind Denver Lincoln Omaha Sioux City St. Joe Wichita D. Moines Popeka Sprial Ld Dupuque Ivy Vinp'rt Daville Decatur Quincy Peoria Wisconsin-Illinois Oshkosh Green Bay Racine Rockford Eppieton Aurora Wausau Madison Cleveland Washington Philadelphia Columbus Indianapolis Louisville Linecola Bloomington Sprivefield Dubuque Quincey Davenport Appleton Sueasta Bwanina

Parisian Sage Promise to Prevent Gray Hair

No More Gray or Faded Hair claims Parisian Sage preserves natural hair color and stops fading. It promises lustrous radiance, banishes dandruff, soothes an itchy scalp, and promotes heavy growth. Large bottle 50 cents at dealers. Lemmon's Pharmacy offers a money back guarantee.

Lemmon

The Nicaraguan Crisis and Key Players

The revolt followed the dismissal of war minister General Luis Mena by President Adolfo Diaz. Mena, trusted by soldiers and allied with Chamorro, controlled the garrison as Diaz sought a durable solution to rising violence. The United States intervened to prevent a return to bloodshed as Diaz faced a complex constitutional dilemma tied to a controversial 1911 decree and Mena’s military influence.

Luis Mena Adolfo Diaz Mena Granada Mayagua Zelaya Diaz Muinner United States Emiliano Chamorro Revolutionary Army Nicaragua Thomas C. Dawson State Department National Assembly Constituent Assembly General Mena Republic Knox

Death of St. Louis apothecary ends with fifteen cats

Dr. Sarah F. Wells, famed unconventional apothecary and writer, dies paupered in her Franklin Avenue shop after a life as Oberlin graduate and founder of medical schools. Her last act involved bequeathing fifteen cats to Mme Bee the fortune teller and Miss Delia Faddy, while trunks of riches lie amid rags. Her husband Rufus G. Wells, an eccentric aeronaut, had died two years earlier.

St. Louis Sarah F. Wells Wells Oberlin University Medical Payton Kansas City Florida Franklin Avenue Mme. Bee Delia Faddy Rufus G. Wells

Noted Pennsylvania engineer Crawford retires at seventy

Joseph Ury Crawford consulting engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad has retired after a long career of civil war service surveys in the west and south and international work. Born Aug. 25 1812 he studied at the University of Pennsylvania class of 1862 and earned global recognition including Japanese orders of the Rising Sun and the Sacred Treasure. He served as consulting engineer for the US government Cuba transportation study and returned to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1911.

Joseph Ury Crawford Pennsylvania Railroad Crawford Mr. Crawford Try Farm Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Seventeenth Pennsylvania Regiment Washington Greys Japan Pennsylvania Railroad Company Secretary of War United States Cuba

Are Lobsters Animals A Lobster Cruelty Case In Philadelphia

Police Magistrate Haggerty held hotel chef John Handoenur on $100 bail on a charge of cruelty to animals for placing a wooden peg in a lobster’s first joint back of the chin to prevent snapping. The case drew players from the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the hotel owner, with arguments about whether lobsters are animals and the appropriate legal category. The magistrate admitted the difficulty and postponed a full ruling to the court.

Haggerty Philadelphia John Handoenur Hhaudecaur Women’s Branch Pennsylvania Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals Grit Wyno Maine Cruelty Society Handocanr

Ninety-Five Year-Old Colonel Higgins Pens Book

Colonel Higgins of Los Angeles, at age ninety five, has just completed a notable book on American Life in the Nineteenth Century. He ranks as possibly the oldest living author and remains active as he looks forward to the national Grand Army encampment. He reads without glasses and has attended USC in recent years to study philosophy and psychology.

Dr. Higgins Los Angeles Higgins National Grand Army of the Repubiic Fliggins Colonel Higgins University of Southern California Nast

Remarkable Cure Record for Chamberlain's Remedy

The text extols Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for colic and diarrhoea cures in many neighborhoods. It notes wide reputation and implicit trust from user experience. Available for sale at Lemmon's Pharmacy.

Lemmon's Pharmacy

Don’t you think you’d be more comfortable with that bone

A passenger aboard an ocean liner grows irritated by a neighbor’s crude dining. After enduring a rude bone-picking display he finally tells the offender to move the bone to the mat. The scene reflects early 20th century manners and social tension aboard ships.

Goethe’s mother shaped a noted literary life

The passage credits Goethe's mother as a perfect parent and intimate confidant. Raised in bourgeois circles with limited schooling, her natural intelligence and empathy later won her friendship with princes, poets, and philosophers, turning her home into a hub for the era’s great minds.

Goethe Burgeois

Change of life dangers and Lydia E Pinkham remedy

The text describes the perils of the change of life including headaches dizziness hot flashes and heart palpitations. It touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic to invigorate strengthen and support the nervous system during this trying period.

Lydia E. Pinkhan

Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound Helps St Anne Patient

A reader from St Anne I I complains of life change pains backache and nervous distress. She reports swelling dizziness irregular cycles and kidney trouble. After taking Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound she notes relief and reduced pain enabling basic housework again.

St. Anne Ediysryeaaamsima Lydia E. Jhans Anne Dilin

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Graham Monday Nigh Waneat Diaz Described Ministry of War Chamorro Pennsylvania Chet Chamberlain Lem Mon's Pharmacy He Belonged Lydia E. Pinkham Estella Gillispie
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