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Newspaper
Washington Washington Democrat
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1909
Page
4
Real estate ad highlights several properties including a 2 story frame house with bath and cellar on improved street, corner lot 120x120 feet with concrete and barn, a 4 room house in Doherty addition renting for $69 yearly, and an assortment of cottages with gardens and city water. Includes price reductions and association details.
A fragmented, era commentary piece discusses forming a conservative party from old factions with a platform. It includes proposed policies on currency, tariffs, judiciary independence, equal justice, and a Taft ticket for 1914 with Taft and Marabah as candidates. The text blends items on public notices, letters, and a baptism anecdote.
A batch of community members are noted returning home or traveling to nearby cities. Brewer family visits Vincennes. numerous residents make short trips to Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Chicago, and Louisville. Clay Orduger wedding in Cincinnati noted. others plan visits to Loogootee, Montgom ery, and St. Louis.
Ten young pupils present a varied recital at Peoples Hall tonight under Mrs Lavern publishing. The program includes classic waltzes marches duets and choruses featuring performers such as Lavern Cloggs Anna Castle Elsie Vona Alimen and John Hastings with a second part by Simkins Tastings and Addie Biptogs Grace Gilley and Mildred Whitsett among others.
Translation of damaged OCR shows Childress Texas struck by flood waters from rising levels. Water inundates stores and farmland, six inches standing, power plant flooded, shops and yards submerged. Fort Worth & Dallas area also affected with public buildings and city hall under water. Anniversary observances and memorial services noted for historic disasters in New York and the city.
President Taft sent a message to Congress urging passage of a two per cent tax on undistributed corporate net earnings and support for a constitutional amendment giving Congress power to tax incomes. Attorney General Wickersham to draft both measures. aims to win administration backing and speed passage by Friday amid progressive Republican resistance.
A fragmented dialogue shows a Canadian dealer paying export price two dollars per hundred under domestic price for a 325 pound barrel of standard granulated sugar. The discussion notes tariff effects, household necessity, and varied rates on goods, illustrating how duties raise costs for wage earners.
United States Army personnel seven in total, including sergeant and privates, were inoculated with typhoid serum. The procedure involved injection into a vein and close medical observation. The men expect to become ill for about forty hours with fever and malaise, then will be quarantined. A second injection occurs after twenty days, with ongoing scrutiny to determine the vaccine’s effects.
A muddled fragment recalls a sea of claims about cheap bread and food supply. Figures and names are garbled but hint at a population pressure, a university figure, and political figures in Washington discussing food policy and headlines from a past era.
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