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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1921
Page
2
Market notes show cattle and hog receipts and varying price ranges. Beef, veal, and lamb segments list bids by weight class with several ranges and status generally steady to lower. official yesterday totals and upcoming estimates provided by W Wagner & Co Iowa City.
Iowa City April 7 Judge Martin J Wade affirmed the three year federal term imposed on L W Bohner Malvern Iowa for slandering the Red Cross during the war. Bohner has fought the case through the U S circuit court of appeals and the U S supreme court on constitutional questions before the ruling.
In Des Moines strong opposition grows to Fred A. Canfield president of the Iowa Federation of Labor. A fight is expected when the state body meets at Burlington in May over his endorsement of the Springer public utilities bill vetoed by Governor Kendall. J. C. Lewis of the Iowa Coal Miners' union is being pushed to succeed Canfield.
The fisheries bureau says seal flippers, once wasted, can yield 67 percent glue. About 35,000 fur seals are killed yearly on Pr'byloff islands. In the Bering sea four flippers weigh eight pounds, giving 100 to 140 tons annually.
Joint Government and State report from Des Moines shows Iowa winter wheat at 94 percent of normal on April 1, aided by an unusually mild winter with scant snow cover. Rye stands at 96 percent. sowing in fall 426 000 acres for winter wheat, labor supply at 112 percent of a year ago, with 89 percent farm labor demand.
Police first night of enforcement ends in chaos when a quart bottle of confiscated liquor detonates in a detective’s pocket at night court. A man confesses to drinking, a bomb scare erupts, and about twenty men are arrested for liquor law violations.
Burlington indicates V H Chanlear a prominent watermelon grower says his method can turn each half grown melon into a natural still. He plugs the fruit adds a self made yeast mix and seals the hole with grafting wax to produce alcohol and boost melon growth. Contracts were arranged for an acre per melon with a 10 cent kick per melon, but Chanlear later ceded the project to the Burlington Melon Growers association citing notoriety.
The text notes shells of a gastropod mollusk in the Turbinidae family prized for their beauty. It cites their metallic date suggesting the rich plumage of pheasants, highlighting ornamental value in these shells.
Orrie L. Cross and Eugene C. Weeks were sentenced to death by Judge Hubert L. Utterback for the February 5 Fosdick murder during an attempted hold up. Weeks to be hanged April 15 and Cross May 1, 1922. Cross pleaded guilty and confessed, claiming he fired the fatal shots.
Des Moines reports the senate passed a substitute age of consent bill 38 to 0 after brief deliberation. The measure raises the age from 15 to 16 and to 17 in certain cases, defines rape by force or illicit carnal knowledge of females under 16 or 17, with punishment outlined for all three provisions. The bill was drafted by Senator Dutcher and referred by the committee.
The senate passes a substitute bill shielding rape and seduction cases, aiming for a harsher standard than the Mayne bill. Ida B. Wise Smith of the Womans Christian Temperance Union urges raising the age of consent to 18, arguing for a uniform state morality law. The measure moves to the house for consideration.
Charles G. Dawes, head of the committee for soldier relief, repeatedly told photographers to leave, insisting they would not pose and that the work of the committee must proceed. Camera crews finally backed off after his outburst in Washington.
Mrs. Earl Coppinger spent her honeymoon in a Belvidere hospital as two doctors cared for her head injury after a post ceremony struggle. Guests including Hazel Simmons faced a kidnapping attempt as the bride was knocked to the sidewalk during the melee.
The article describes seaquakes as sea eruptions that generate large waves and chaotic water movement. It cites the 1840 Shoda Japan quake where waters were agitated then withdrew, exposing shallow bottoms, followed by a 30 foot wave sweeping the coast. It also notes megastorms like the Messina quake where such waves caused destruction to cities and ships.
Royal Anthropological Institute in London heard that red heads could be a separate race. F G Parsons said about four in every hundred are red headed, a higher share among the upper classes. He noted more red hair among the beauties of southwest Ireland.
A compact reflection on the enduring inner powers that animate mind and will, linking human perception and desire to a transcendent source. The passage alludes to Aristotle while pondering the reliable core of soul that sustains intellect and aspiration.
Funeral services were held for Bridget Harney age 118 at the Little Sisters of the Poor home in Milwaukee. Born in Ireland in 1803, she attributed her long life to lifelong tobacco use, according to the health department death certificate.
The article notes color blindness affects at least 55 out of 1000 people. The commonest form is blue green confusion, not red green. About 1 in 46 see blue green poorly, while 1 in 60 struggle with brown green. Color blindness is more common in educated people, and musicians are more prone than many other groups.
The text depicts controversy over an Englishman’s boots with tall tops and black leather, seen as a vulgar fashion by Puritans and commentators. It notes the stereotype and social judgment attached to the boot style and its street presence.
The lesson urges Christians to treat the body as the temple of the Holy Ghost and God’s property bought by Christ's blood. It stresses self denial to win an incorruptible prize, the need to keep the body under control, and the law of sowing and reaping in daily conduct.
The shepherds and Wise Men depart Bethlehem certain of God. Their encounter with the infant Jesus sparks a strong sense of divine presence in believers, with Zachariah Mary Simeon rising in gratitude at the sight of the child. Congregationalist and Advance.
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