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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1928
Page
4
The United States civil service issued a stark warning limiting federal workers political participation in the current campaign. Employees may vote but must keep opinions private. displaying campaign materials or wearing badges risks dismissal. Postmasters warned against bartering a government office amid bribery allegations.
Des Moines Iowa September 20 Charles E Hearst president of the Iowa farm bureau urges farmers to save enough seed corn for 1929. He warns that a promising crop now does not guarantee seed quality next spring if a severe freeze hits. He cautions against early harvests and advises monitoring pigs for disease when feeding new corn.
The trade commission hearing disclosed checks from the National Electric Light Association to Kansas publisher William Allen White, advertising man Bruce Barton, radio executive Mr Aylesworth, and Pennsylvan ia service commission chairman W E Ainey among others. It also revealed that Harvard and Northwestern universities received NELA payments for research work.
President Coolidge appointed Col. Harry Burgess of the U S Army engineers as governor of the Panama Canal Zone, succeeding retired Gen. M Sam Walker.
Vinton citizens pledged 7140 to pay down the hospitals indebtedness. An additional 4500 must be raised before the hospital board can claim the 160009 bequest left by the late Dr. C. C. Griffin to the institution.
In Madison on September 20 the Wisconsin Regular Republicans won a narrow victory over the La Follette Progressive faction at the state convention. The fight centered on the platform with disputes over campaign expenditure investigations. The convention ended with adoption of a platform backing the national Republican ticket.
Paris reports a West Indian hurricane claiming 600 lives in Guadeloupe with Pointe a Pitre hardest hit. Relief efforts begin to shelter feed and prevent epidemics, while nearby areas add counts from Marie Galante Poury Sainte Ann and other settlements.
Trains on the Rock Island lines through Iowa City were restored after a wrecking crew cleared tracks for eight hours. Three coal cars and a tractor load derailed when a top heavy coal car overturned at Homestead Indiana, twenty miles west of here, late Wednesday.
An advertising pitch touts McCoy's Tablets as a weight gain remedy for thin men and women. It claims users gain at least five pounds and feel healthier after four sixty cent boxes or two one dollar boxes, with a full money back guarantee and availability at J. E. Lemmon's and other drug stores nationwide.
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