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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1922
Page
2
Daily market notes from Chicago April 10 and 16 show estimated hog receipts 406000 with 2068 holdover, cattle 18000, sheep 13000. later period reports push beef and lamb prices with various weight classes and strong bid ranges. Wheat corn oats futures and cash grain directions noted with steady to higher tones in options and cash markets.
A new state publication titled Iowa's Consolidated Schools reviews work since 1920 by George A. Brown. It notes 439 districts on Jan 1, 1922 with 380 centralized schools and ongoing housing improvements. It highlights transportation shifts to motor buses and 24,000 of 60,000 pupils transported in 1920–1921.
A late cotton boom in South Carolina brings wealth to Black residents. One man buys a luxury car and returns to the dealer seeking a bumper for the front of his vehicle, mispronouncing terms in a humorous exchange.
Liquors valued over 300 million in the legitimate market and over 1 billion in bootleg channels shipped from the United States to foreign markets before January 16 1920 are expected to return to the United States under the Willitagamphell act passed by Congress to supplement the national prohibition law John D Appleby says the New York and New Jersey prohibition agent in charge outlines the plan.
In Detroit on April 10, Edward Th. Fox chief of detectives and Burt Rene a meat shop clerk were shot during a robbery by three bandits. Fox, with his wife and three year old daughter present, chased the robbers who escaped with 218 dollars. Fox was wounded in the chest and abdomen, condition listed as very serious. Rene was shot in the foot.
London reports General Eugene Von Falkenhayn a once prominent German commander in World War I has died in Potsdam according to advices received. The obituary notes his significant role in the German army during the war.
Four men were shot in a Chicago saloon at 2050 West Division Street amid an outbreak of hostilities between rival bootleggers and gamblers. One man died, Abraham Ruin, famed by police. Police seek Sailor Frielman boxer Max Miller and Red Cohn as suspects.
The Adriatic sails from New York with 68 steerage I W W members among 6,000 expected to travel to Russia to demonstrate workers can run industry. They follow William D Haywood the I W W leader then in Russia who is guiding a group to oversee mines and steel plants for the Soviet government.
A Texas windstorm caused by tornadoes and heavy rain swept from west Texas toward Oklahoma and Arkansas, killing seventeen and injuring more than eighty. Officials warn the toll may rise as reports from Rowing Optin Electra Anu burne Tex and Lawton Okla towns come in, with many injured elsewhere.
Iowa County Agents report Mendon township farmers will prune and spray trees, paying no more for wormy fruit. County agent Combs calls it a choice between spraying to get returns or switching to other crops. Separately, Elkader hosts cooperative creamery patrons with dairy talks. butter receipts total 131197.54 for the year, butterfat averaged 44.73, cream at 30 percent, cost per pound butter 2.66.
In mid April the Agricultural Extension Service and Adair county farm bureau will run an experimental shelter belt project on James C. Lane’s farm in Adair county. The plan includes rows of evergreen trees around the homestead and outbuildings directed by the program organizers.
Mitchell county farm bureau schedules dual orchard and nutrition meetings for the first week in April. Iowa State College leaders join officers in demonstrations with Miss Margaret Baker discussing foods and nutrition. Farmers and families prepare to attend.
The Louisa County Farm Bureau urges proper early chick nutrition and ventilation with a 98 to 100 degree brooder, gradual temperature cuts, and careful feeding schedules. It notes Iowa quarantine against European corn borer infested plant shipments and calls vigilance for hog cholera amid thawing ground and muddy lots.
The warm rains bring buds on fruit trees, so apply cluster bud spray when blossoms turn pink and separate. Use 60 gallons water with 8 to 10 quarts concentrated lime sulphur and 1 1/2 pounds powdered arsenate, plus a pint black leaf 40 if green apple aphids appear. suitable for apple, pear, cherry, American plum and hybrid plum.
The Farm Bureau urges owners to remove common barberry bushes to curb wheat rust, noting Japanese barberry can stay. It also announces April 14 dual orchard and poultry demonstrations in Elm Grove township with Ames Experiment Station experts at Griff Humphreys farm, starting 9:00 AM.
In Youngstown the Telegram notes a brief exchange where Mrs Newlywed asks for assistance from her spouse. The dialogue suggests concern over appearances as newly married and finances.
Ernest Albright fed a purebred Hereford calf for the Baby Beef contest and achieved a daily gain of 2.2 pounds for 258 days at 7.1 cents per pound feed. He describes the calf Maple Lad 83rd, born January 3 1920, its care from birth to show, feed regimen of corn oats meal bran hay and routine handling with plans to win a ribbon at the International Livestock Exposition.
A youngster recalls growing up on a farm where visiting preacher families were常 present at meals. He recounts waiting as the preacher's youngest son, about ten, ate six pieces of chicken, leaving none for the narrator and his brother, an incident that ended a romantic notion.
The text describes a historical calendar reform under Nema where January was added at the start and February at the end. It details the evolution to a two month shift and its final assignment to the current calendar position.
Weather outlook for Upper Missingpot and Lower Missouri Valleys calls for a cloudy and much colder start to the week, with a fall in temperatures and cool conditions through midweek. By Thursday or Friday unsettled and warmer weather is expected with probable showers and frost during the first half of the week.
The Census Bureau reports decreasing typhoid fever deaths across states from 1916 to 1920, with Massachusetts and Wisconsin posting the lowest white population rate at 2.6 and New York the lowest overall at 2.6 for whites and 4.6 for colored. Kentucky shows the highest white rate at 19.1 and 30.2 for colored in the same state. Only nine of thirty-three states show higher 1920 rates than 1919.
A fragment describes crabs reproducing by exes in summer after a female hoists a hard shot. It mentions an abdominal appendage and eyes scorried for safety until they hatel.
A reader suggests saving corks in a small labeled box for handy reuse. Keep the box on the pantry shelf to store pulled corks and reduce waste.
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