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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1909
Page
14
A California audience heard a lecture on Japan’s shift from military aims to trade and industry. The talk linked Japanese policy to wider commerce growth, noting American sympathy but urging balanced action to protect U.S. interests amid rising East Asia trade tensions.
Fragmentary report details a man wounded by a revolver in Dixon. The text references Christopher Gibson and others, citing a Sovietless context and unclear motive. Condition of the victim is reported as serious while authorities investigate the shooting.
A pedestrian offers services as an instructor to the military and naval service. He claims the walking test proves officer fitness and could be taught to improve marching and locomotion. The message was sent to a member of Congress from Low Regiamdl.
West Virginia brief items note a man killed near Welsh and another shot in the head at a Dunlow home. A fire destroyed the Tivian office building of Castor Curran Nanette Paranontas Coal Company, causing about 19000 in losses.
A three-site, four-man referee board appointed by President Roosevelt and led by Dr. Ira Remsen finds that sodium benzoate used as a food preservative is not deleterious to health in small doses under 0.5 gram daily and shows no injurious effects in higher daily doses up to 4 grams. The reports, based on four months of controlled feeding trials at Northwestern University Columbia University and Yale, conclude no added poison or toxin impact from benzoate. The findings contradict the Bureau of Chemistry and will be issued as a Department of Agriculture bulletin.
The text notes no deleterious general health impact or poisonous effect from sodium benzoate when mixed with food. It mentions slight, uncertain changes in some physiological processes and states that adding sodium benzoate in small or large doses does not infamously impair food quality or nutritive value.
W Stevenson aged 65 was struck by a street car near Delaware avenue and C street southeast, suffering a fracture of the left leg. He is at Casualty Hospital. Stevenson, employed at the Washington Navy Yard, was crossing the tracks when the car's fender shoved him several yards and he was found unconscious.
The Rev. Arthur Willis Spooner denounces progressive gambling by women patrons at euchre parties and condemns theaters, dancing, and card games as immoral. He urges arrests for patronesses and calls for renewed church activity to model Christ’s life, urging stricter social conduct in the city.
The Rev Dr Donald MacLeod of First Presbyterian preached on Be not therefore anxious for the morrow. He urged daily obedience to Jesus to curb anxiety and imagined a world free of worry as a glimpse of heaven on Earth.
President Roosevelt convenes the Conference on Dependence Children this afternoon at the White House with a preliminary committee report and an organization. Tonight and tomorrow sessions at the District building will feature talks by Macfarland Hirech McMahon and Hart among others, with tickets for admission and a 7:30 dinner.
Dr C F Winbigler spoke on The Universal Mind and how to connect with it, contrasting Spencer and Tolstoi thoughts. He argued for a universal spirit, intelligent and omnipresent, urging believers to realize God in human life and to appropriate His gifts. The sermon included a tale of a girl reading a motto God is nowhere and awakening her father to God’s presence.
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