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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1920
Page
2
Chicago markets show mixed cattle hogs and sheep with receipts totaling 9 000 head across hogs 3 399 cattle 3 596 sheep 6 298 calves 1 513. Hogs tops at 15 90 and cattle mostly 25 to 50 higher with beef steers up to 15.75 for prime and choice. Lambs and feeder stock also move with varied gains across weights.
Fragmentary OCR outlines corn and clover prices with car counts and price figures. Mentions No 3 toners and dated October December Clover values, but lacks coherent context or complete data for a clear market item.
The film stars Bessie Barriscale in Geraldine Laird a wife deserted by her husband rises to stage success in New York. She forgives him after a bitter private reckoning and the夫妻 reunite with their children as the picture ends.
A Ferrary correction once willed to the Berlin Postal Museum was confiscated by authorities. It contains stamps valued at ten thousand and fifteen thousand dollars each.
In Neel and Pleven sales pavilion at Kearney Nebraska a cigar stump or cigarette butt started a fire during a hog sale attendee disturbance. The blaze leveled the building and several hogs, with damage estimated at nineteen thousand dollars. The report also notes guidance on feeding cottonseed meal to horses and mules from USDA experiments begun in 1918 at the Beltsville government farm.
M F Willis runs a 29 acre hog farm at Campbell Texas. In 1919 his purebred program earned a net income of 4532 dollars plus 300 in Texas State Fair premiums. Gross income reached 6447 dollars with 1915 dollars spent on feed and other expenses. Willis started with common hogs and built a purebred operation.
Stannard and Stannard submit tuberculosis herd testing for accreditation under the Bureau of Animal Industry. Washington county ranks third in state herd supervision with 62, Kossuth 99, Bremer 61, Black Hawk 58, plus a Farm Bureau push to study costs and profit. John Powell, 76 township, supplies soy bean seed for ensilage on about 10 acres.
Miss Corley Conlon of the Teachers College extension department completed a study center trip from Sidney to Hamburg in two days but endured an eight day journey due to a April blizzard. She walked to a farm two miles for shelter, waited for horses to clear the road, and missed a train home at Hamburg. She said the ordeal helped her understand early pioneer hardships.
The Baptist church and 10 000 Northern Baptist churches plan Denominational Day on April 18 to promote the New World Movement a five year drive for 100 million dollars. The program highlights past achievements of figures from Roger Williams to Adoniram Judson and outlines aims to expand missions and Baptist schools.
Ainsworth correspondence reports the April 12 wedding at the First Methodist parsonage of George Townsend and Misa Lillian Norris of Columbus Junction. They reside in Ainsworth now, Townsend working at the Farmers' Cooperative store. Also noted is Miss Maude Armstrong of Chicago marrying Dr. J. W. Wilson of Riverside, after nursing training in Seattle and Chicago and military service in the U S Army. Fortnightly club officers were elected and a program on Bandages was presented by Grace Conner and Mrs Carlton Wilson.
Plans for next year include practical work with a committee led by Mrs. Carlton Wilson and including Mrs. Bevins and Miss Mide CC Lewis. A May 11 meeting will be the final one, described as a hike, followed by a Jubilee program of a concert by A M E F young people featuring numerous choir numbers, solos, duets, and finales with Mrs W B Williams, Hall Bros, and Miss Elizabeth Redd among performers.
The Sagebrusher, Emerson Hough novel adaptation, earns praise for engineering feats and forest fire scenes. Directed by Edward Sloman, filmed in California and Montana, with photographer John Seitz and Clark Bond, and co op by Hough. Opens today for a two day run at Fox Theater.
Delegates arriving for the Republican National Convention in Chicago will have access to a new telephony network linking all state district and territorial delegations. Fifty three phones will serve the forty eight states plus DC Alaska Hawaii the Philippines and Porto Rico. Balcony expansion adds about 1100 seats and work on the annex offices begins May 3 with over 47000 dollars spent on alterations to host more than 10000 spectators.
Fred W. Sargent of Des Moines has accepted the position of general solicitor for the Chicago and Northwestern railway system with headquarters in Chicago. He will move soon, and his Rock Island successor is expected to be J. G. Gamble. Meanwhile an offer to Sir William Orpen for 300 American portraits was refused as impossible in 300 years.
A French writer claims mankind is redeemed not by blood alone but by wisdom and notes that in war wisdom has no chance, reflecting on the moral limits of conflict.
The text urges vigilance for signs of sluggish blood and the decline of vital force. It asserts that keeping blood purified helps the body ward off ever present disease that waits to attack wherever there is an weakness.
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