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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1919
Page
2
Chicago April 22 market update with estimated receipts for hogs cattle and sheep. Prices mostly higher than yesterday across weight classes and categories, including beef steers calves and lambs, with bid levels, weights and ranges described for each group.
The Washington County Breeders Association releases its inaugural directory with forty advertisers. Distribution through county agents aims to boost local livestock breeding via coordinated effort and shared catalogs. Proves good sires and care lift dairy output across Guernsey, Jersey, and Holstein lines with notable gains in milk and fat.
Cash buyers report egg receipts for the week ending April 19 totaling 44 837 dozen or 1494 cases or four carloads. The note thanks patrons and invites more customers, detailing prices for eyes cream gosens young and old roosters ducks geese rabbits and other items though portions of the text are garbled.
A U S Department of Agriculture March 1 report shows U S average plow land at 74 21 per acre up from 68 39 three years earlier. Iowa tops states at 169, Illinois 144, California 122, Indiana 100. Alabama and Mississippi lowest.
Tomato cultivation tips note that tomatoes adapt to any garden size. To ensure early supply seed indoors four to six weeks before warm weather, transplant once or twice, then set outside after hardening the plants gradually.
The article explains outdoor tomato growing methods for home gardens. It outlines two spacing options two feet or three to four feet apart, with pruning to a single stem and staking for better fruit and earlier ripening. It notes 25 to 50 plants suffice for summer use and canning under USDA guidance.
An advertisement promotes Chamberlains Cough Remedy to keep coughs loose and mucus flowing. It claims easier expectoration, fewer coughing fits, and notes no narcotics. Lemmons's Drug Store.
The government proposes making Vienna a second German capital with President Ebert residing part time there. It includes moving imperial bureaus to Vienna and holding national assembly meetings there to ease Austrian concerns about Austria joining Germany.
Berlin April 22. The national assembly has officially notified every German town with its own garrison that it has decided to disband the German army, ending decades of local pride in those military structures.
A New York report details Russia’s wartime borrowing from Great Britain France the United States and Japan totaling about 4 billion with future repayments uncertain. It notes potential priority for French claims and cites large French holdings of Russian bonds while outlining totals and projected increases in British and American lending.
A new safety match claims wind proof and water proof performance making it useful in modern warfare. It will burn five seconds in strong wind and, once extinguished, will not reignite regardless of where it is thrown.
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