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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1918
Page
2
The Cash Shoe Store promotes gray cloth top shoes at seven dollars and an eight dollar all grey kid model. Offers work shoes and a sale that emphasizes limited sizes and stock.
Chicago April 12 hogs see receipts about 30 000 yesterday remaining 11 054 market softer by about five cents. Light mixed and heavy shipping goods mostly 16 40 to 17 70. Good to choice hogs 17 50 to 17 70. Cattle receipts around 7 000 with strong prospects. Sheep receipts about 10 000 with steady buyers.
Receipts today 33000 and yesterday 36751 with 7719 shipments and 11094 left over. Tomorrow’s receipts estimated 21000. prices mixed with bulk around 17.90 to 17.75 for selects. Beverages refer to beef cattle and sheep markets with varied ranges and overall steady prospects.
Ground glass was discovered in 686 pounds of bread to be issued to soldiers by bakery company No 315 at Camp Grant Rockford I April 11. The 418 loaves were seized and guarded for investigation as Captain Charles Mayer reported a broken thermometer near the mixing trough may have caused the contamination and promised a full inquiry.
Cadet Ziam A. Ankrum twenty four of Champaign Illinois was killed instantly and Cadet George S. Konglass of Marysville Kansas was fatally injured when their training planes collided at Kelly Field Ankrum mother Mrs M A Ankrum of Champaign Wisconsin will have the body sent home for burial both cadets were in the second sub stage of instruction at the American aviation camp
The report covers hogs kept warm by their own heat, losses from dogs to a livestock breeder, and crop plans as freezing weather threatens oats. It mentions a tractor handling heavy work, Braschbiel replanting oats and planting corn on other fields, and horses and mules plowing old sod. Whitewash coats trees to deter pests.
The column serves farmers with practical practice insights and soil tests offered by the Farm Bureau. It notes soil acidity tests, seed corn testing, and the habit of planting ear tested seed. It also reports Chas Brown and W J Wells shipping half a load of horses to Cedar Rapids for a Friday and Saturday sale with Charles selling again this week.
lL A Foss plows up the old shed bottom for a potato patch and plants seed. Elmer Burham showcases stock including calves and mixed hogs while praising a sorrel horse. J B Porter tiles pasture north of the road hinting at a future corn field. Comm notes a round barn design with single stalls and a circular feed alley. KB Dunehee saved 11 winter pigs by sheltering them with a 6 inch saw between two sheds.
Amsterdam reports a semiofficial Berlin dispatch stating Germany has captured an American aviator. The engineer by profession, serving with French forces since last September, was shot down on the western front on Sunday according to the notice.
London reports British merchant ship losses last week fell to the second lowest level since Germany began its submarine campaign. Four vessels over 1,400 tons, two under 1,600 tons, and two fishing boats were sunk by mines or submarines.
Dairy sellers offer Guernsey cows for sale in a range of ages. Buyers can select based on temperament, milk production, and herd needs. Contact local farmer listings for pricing and availability.
Food Administrator Deems notes farmers receive a larger slice of the loaf than five years ago. In 1913 farmers earned 26 percent of bread cost, rising to 45 percent today. Millers add 68 percent in 1918 versus 49 percent now. France reports steep drops in wheat and other crops, prompting wheat shipments and reduced bread use until harvest.
A testimonial claims Mayr's Wonderful Remedy cured years of indigestion bloating and colic attacks after completing the course. The ad asserts the preparation removes catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and calms inflammation affecting stomach liver and related ailments with a money back guarantee and one dose convince.
American tractors aided farm output while French market reports quote horse flesh for human consumption at ten cents per pound live weight.
In Davenport on April 2 Katsey Williams was shot and killed during the Kaiser’s first visit. E J Kelly, a traveling salesman, confessed to the shooting after an outburst during a photo play depicting German atrocities. The crowd acclaimed the assailant as a hero despite his arrest.
A shooter produced a firearm from a hip pocket and fired twice at a screen. Bullets pierced the baiser s left lung and the screen was wrecked. No prosecution resulted.
Newark dispatch reports Bishop R J Cooke of Helena Mont told the Newark Methodist Episcopal conference that Count von Bernstorf and his aides should have been hanged at the sinking of the Lusitania. The remark ties the bishop to a controversial wartime stance in New Jersey.
A fragmentary quote argues America should have joined the war earlier to aid Belgium England and France. It contrasts a claim about a safe house and respect for divine law with a critique of thieves and lawlessness in the era.
A fragmentary report describes an arieptin figure cleaning trousers with gasoline then wearing them again before an action at a tinted cabin. Both the involved man and another person sustained burns and appear to be in distress, with unclear names and details.
Washington reports six hundred communities have oversubscribed their liberty loan quotas and demanded the right to fly the flag. Officials presented awards of the flag to about half the communities in acknowledgment of the pledges fulfilled.
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