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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1919
Page
2
Chicago market reports show hog receipts about 24 000 with holdover 8 439 and steady to higher cattle activity. Top cattle price near 19 75 with varied weights and beef steer grades quoted. lambs steady to higher with top around 20 50 and ewe prices mixed.
Grain futures wrap up with reports supplied by E. W. Wagner & Co of Iowa City led by manager J. B. Hunt. Market activity notes price trends and trading interest, with figures for locally traded grains.
The article traces early timekeeping attempts through Isaiah references and Pliny noting Anaximander’s sun dial around 550 B.C. It mentions Rome’s first sun dial in the temple of Quirinus circa 208 B.C. and the clepsydra water clock as the next invention for recording time.
A man invited a woman to visit. He asked about a child to play with him, then proposed a boy. She agreed, and he quipped that his mother would tell the stork that brought him to bring her a boy.
A seven inch steel ladle said to be from Indian use for melting lead for bullets was found embedded in the heart of a red oak. The tree rings suggest a age over a hundred years and the ladle appears to have been driven in when the sapling was young.
A new Case Tractor model 15 27 with a 3 and 4 bottom plow arrives at the Journal Farm Dept noted for reserve power. See it at North Marion avenue. The Louisa County Breeders Association holds a Shorthorn sale Friday at Columbus Junction fair grounds with fifty head offered by Louisa county breeders.
Talk of a sale pavilion for Washington continues with hopeful interest among livestock men for a timely financing and construction before the next sale season. A definite plan has not yet been announced, but the project remains important to local cattlemen seeking a suitable sale venue.
Farmers increasingly shift to stockraising amid high beef pork and mutton prices. Many buy purebred sires with a growing interest from grain and cotton growers who previously did not raise livestock. Gov Lowden urges breeders to push improved methods as world livestock scarcity grows and pedigree seed expands.
A Virginia girl borrowed money from her father to buy nine settings of eggs for the poultry club linked to the USDA and the state agricultural college. One setting earned a membership, but she pursued full effort and earned $98 in her first year with three roosters remaining.
An Indiana farm reports adding tankage to 90 pounds of soft ear corn produced 12.4 pounds of pork versus 5.3 pounds with corn alone. In Clear Lake Iowa, Cerro Gordo county farmers report a Frost orchard earning about $30 per acre after two years of pruning and spraying, with $2,600 in sales and $1,650 profit on five and a half acres, plus a broader county impact from spraying 1,000 trees that raised fruit yield by 3,000 bushels and profits to $6,006.
Harrison county farmers plan a cooperative marketing association after a study of past onion prices. Forty growers formed the Module Union Marketing Association with L G Foster guiding the effort. Despite bad weather last season the group expects improved marketing this year and receives daily onion market news letters.
Potatoes with lush tops often underperform at digging time. Excess foliage signals imbalanced nutrients, usually too much nitrogen and too little phosphorus and potash. Maine growers apply heavy manures, but bottoming out improves with increased phosphorus and potash, especially potash.
British miners vote to strike in London demanding withdrawal of troops from Skuscia, abolition of military recruitment, lifting of the blockade, and emancipation of conscientious objectors as Robt Smilie leads the union in urging renewal of conscription.
In Perlis on April 4 President Wilson is expected to define America’s position on the peace conference within days. If other powers accept the stance a treaty may be possible. rejection could end the peace talks.
The article notes steel needles found among the Kaffirs in Africa and other regions suggesting early indigenous invention. It states European eyed needles began in bone and ivory, sometimes bronze. By 1570 steel needles were made in Nuremberg with possible English production, while raw material mainly came from Spain until 1560.
A boy half previews a photographer father by directing a pretend portrait. He tells his playmate to stand still and look decent as he fakes taking a snapshot with a worn camera.
USDA notes spinach thrives in cool climates and can be grown as a winter crop in the south. In central regions mulch with straw or leaves to protect it, while northern areas can plant as soon as soil works and harvest before heat. One ounce seeds cover about 100 feet of row. Spinach yields high satisfaction as a spring vegetable.
Sixteen aircraft from the Middle West Victory Loan Flying Circus depart Kelly Field for Ellington Field Houston and plan exhibitions from April 10 in New Orleans and across a circuit through Jackson Memphis Little Rock St Louis Peoria Chicago Milwaukee Duluth Minneapolis St Paul Sioux City Omaha Des Moines Kansas City Wichita Muskogee Oklahoma City and Dallas led by Major George E Streamyer and Major Edyea Tobin of San Antonio.
The educated class language in Greece, used in newspapers and modern literature, differs from the Romaic of the lower classes. Literary Greek shows greater resemblance to ancient Greek, making it easier for those with knowledge of classical Greek to read modern Greek texts.
A concise quotation from William Penn on how minor things can overly affect us, warning that small concerns can transport us as much as larger matters if given priority. The line reflects moral reflection rather than a news event.
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