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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1922
Page
2
Estimated receipts in Chicago for cattle hogs and sheep for April 17 1922. Hogs top at 10.66 with varied weights and packer prices. cattle beef steers and feeders listed with weight based pricing. sheep lambs yearlings and ewes given bid ranges. Wheat corn oats futures shown with open high low close and cash prices. shipments and receipts noted by Beach-Wickham Grain Co. in Iowa City Iowa.
Seeming universal questions of marriage and happiness drive Lois Weber's What Do Men Want a sharp drama about desire and the American man as it plays at Fox Tuesday and Wednesday. The program also features Charlie Chaplin in A Dogs Life praised as one of his funniest works.
Sioux Falls report states George W. Egan a three time SD governor candidate was found guilty by a circuit court jury of fraudulent claims to insurance firms tied to the burning of his summer home two years prior.
The fifteenth annual Mississippi Valley Historical Society meeting at the University of Iowa May 11 and 12 features speakers Governor Kendall Hamlin Garland James Harvey Robinson and George F. Parker. Parker opens with morning address on Grover Cleveland and noon toast The American Pioneer and his Story.
The Great Tree of Tule in Santa Maria del Tule Oaxaca, a cypress over 800 years old, shows wrinkles of age but is not in immediate danger. Its son Hijo stands nearby, growing so large that twelve people span it. The tree rises about 175 feet with branches spanning 150 feet in a small churchyard.
Boone county is forming a live farmers club in Grant township near Boxholm. Officers elected focus on accurate 1922 farm records with support from the farm bureau. Leaders push countywide limestone use and plan to expand to every township amid success with crushed stone.
In eastern Jackson county two spray rings each holding about 200 trees have been formed. Four sprays will be applied to the trees this year, with strong prospects for a large apple crop. The rings were organized by county agent Ben Walker and the county farm bureau.
Ben Walker county agent says a vaccination school will be held in Jackson County on April 27 and 28. Farmers will take the examination to vaccinate their own hogs during the event.
Ben Walker notes E. O. Cass’s apple tree yielded $56 in 1920 from Northern Spy apples sold at $3 a bushel. Cass and a neighbor own a spray outfit and plan spraying this year. In Shelby County farm bureau, over one thousand memberships are paid with Jackson Township at 100 percent.
Farmers report soy beans reduce need for alfalfa and clover hay and cut oil meal use. Horlacher favors Manchu soy beans for northern Iowa with soy and corn silage. Frank Moore of Wayne County endorses beans for lamb feed and seed, noting sowing method and 14 bushels per acre yield in a five year experience.
In Rome on April 17 communists occupied the Tivoli power plants supplying Rome. The Anglo-Remune company opposed the action and the owners yielded, forcing a contract basis operation. No serious incidents followed the occupation.
Washington reports impeachments will be sought in Congress against Federal Judge George M. McClintick of Charleston West Virginia and Charles P Orr of Pittsburgh if investigations show them guilty of partisan conduct against striking coal miners. Orr is charged with denying citizenship papers to a timber worker from Pennsylvania or others because they were on strike. McClintick is accused of ordering eviction of striking miners from tent colonies in Mingo County.
Kansas City April 17 State Bank Commissioner John G Huwkes traveled from Jefferson City to investigate statements by a young manager at Jackson County Savings and Loan that he used large sums of the association funds for personal investments. Officials say about 450000 of the organization's funds were manipulated.
Madrid reports King Alfonso pardoned three condemned murderers on Good Friday as part of the observance. The royal act follows protests and outlines clemency for those awaiting execution in Spain.
Edgar Rebare convicted of the murder of Rotderf Norberg near Manistique was given life imprisonment at hard labor and solitary confinement in Marquette prison. His brother Dan Rebare was sentenced to ten years at hard labor at Marquette for robbery.
New York fights a weeks long crime wave with over 11,000 officers patrolling Manhattan Broadway stores deploy extra officers and private detectives to deter thieves and maintain order as police deploy every available unit in the effort.
Harlan and Shelby county farmers meeting recently endorsed revisions to the motor vehicle law. They urged to remove inequities in the present statute, affecting cars bought during high prices and after years of wear.
Washington reports the National League of Women Voters will gather in Baltimore this week to assess progress since its 1937 convention in Cleveland. The group will review legislation, discuss current issues, and shape a legislative program for the coming year.
Turpentine helps with laundry by lightening suds and can brighten leaves and blossoms when added to water weekly. It also acts as a moth preventive when a small amount is placed in the bottom of chests, drawers, and cupboards.
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A fragmentary quotation attributed to Wy elift’s version of Ecclesiastes 0 7 discusses enjoying bread and wine, faithful companionship, and life’s vanity under the sun, urging contentment with daily toil and love despite unsteadfastness.
Property Owners Federation Inc funds a campaign to arrest and convict incendiaries across associated towns under section 3 Articles of Association. Fire taxpayers contribute to this effort amid a surge of criminal activity noted in the troubled service organizations.
For Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys the outlook calls for generally fair conditions with possible rain on Thursday or Friday. Cool air and frost are forecast for northern and western portions.
Eugene Meyer Jr, head of the War Finance Corporation, returns from a five week survey of agricultural and financial conditions in the West and South. He reports a more hopeful feeling and an encouraging outlook for the future as president Harding reviews the findings.
The article notes substitutes such as linseed peanut rape or mustard with sulfur form rubberlike substances used in India rubber compounds. Pure fresh rubber sinks in water while oil substitutes are heavier and slowly sink, indicating their differing densities.
A nine year old, trained and cultured, dined alone downtown and selected baked beans, a dill pickle, and a brick of ice cream. He timed his pace to eat the beans, used cutlery for the ice cream, and tossed the pickle at a nearby classmate, per Kido Times.
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