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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1912
Page
8
The eleventh annual convention of the League of American Municipalities begins in Buffalo on September 18 and runs through the 20th. Delegates include mayors, health and public works officials, fire and police chiefs, aldermen, and councilmen from cities across the United States and Canada.
Caruso, the operatic tenor, began a 25 day season in Buenos Aires today. He will receive $84,000 for twelve appearances.
Washington hearings opened on the Mediterranean fruit fly and potato wart with proposed sweeping quarantines. Agriculture experts warn of imminent pine rust risk across Europe and possible damage to U S conifer forests while outlining restricted import lists for pines and potatoes to prevent spread.
Minnesota Democrats give Governor Wilson a warm reception with speeches planned in Minneapolis and St Paul. He arrived this morning from Sioux City in a special car, flanked by two stenographers, two typewriter operators and his secretary.
The Hon. Ars Nutting son of Sir J.G. Nutting of Dublin married Miss Edith Allen Brooks daughter of Walter Brooks of 18 East Seventieth Street New York at St Hanover Square London on September 18.
A broad labor shortage across the United States strains Navy recruitment efforts. Officials report a deficit of 5 604 sailors, despite 4 000 added by recent congressional action. Farm labor demand, high wages, and harvest timing push many toward other work, but recruiters anticipate a late surge as harvest ends and new stations open in Denver, Salt Lake City, and Richmond.
Rear Admiral Charles A. Badger will command the Atlantic fleet starting next January in succession to Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus. Osterhaus will retire next June after eighteen months as commander in chief and six months more of active service in Washington. Badger will fly his flag aboard the Dreadnought Wyoming in place of the Connecticut, the fleet’s long time flagship, with nine fleet captains reassigned in the upcoming changes announced by the Navy. The reshuffle will occur after sailors’ holiday and before the southern cruise and midwinter drills in the Caribbean.
William Hawkins of Philadelphia left eighteen houses to the tenants who had paid rent. Although dead two years, the will was only recently probated. Tenants were told rents were not due despite owning free titles after deeds were executed.
Miss Charlotte Swarts of Athens Massachusetts, 57, postponed schooling due to hazing fears and funding, has entered Keuka Institute at Penn Yan New York to prepare for Kenka College. She joins students decades younger and plans to graduate, having previously learned without a teacher.
Panama canal engineers deem greenheart of British Guiana the strongest most durable wood resisting teredo. After comparing with American and Australian timbers they select it for miter sills. Project requires 140000 feet of wood.
Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg launches a plan to cut prices in city markets. Investigators find inadequate local transit and inflated middlemen profits push costs up to consumers. The city seeks railroad and trolley rate reforms and aims to curb fake farmers selling in markets.
Labor federations hold conventions in Poughkeepsie and Boston this week. Montreal Tramways raises wages for two thousand two hundred drivers and motormen. Canadian Pacific telegraphers seek 25 percent pay rise and eight hour day amid a looming strike. Carpenters plan a home for aged members. Alice Henry emerges as a leading labor figure advocating suffrage and women's industrial reform.
A minister of agriculture report shows Brazil attracted vast foreign capital from 1909 to 1911. In 1911 Brazilian firms held 13 507 contes of reis, while foreign capital reached MLSLS contes, led by American companies at 212 080 contes of reis, chasing a 4 5357 percent rise since 1906.
Nearly all the meerschaum used comes from Eski Shehr in Turkey. The craft of twining is still done in a primitive way using picks and knives. The output largely heads to Vienna for processing and sale.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia University returns from Europe amid Republican plans at Saratoga to name a governor candidate. He meets with French and Berlin bureau directors to discuss closer academic cooperation and a student exchange style study program with Paris Grenoble and Montpelier for June and July.
Sidnay Allen and Wesley Edwards, last of the gang linked to the Carroll county courthouse shootings, arrived from Des Moines and were placed in cells near condemned kinsmen Floyd and Claude Allen. Friel Allen received fifteen years. Miss Manude trojier, Edwards' sweetheart, attended the scene.
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