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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1921
Page
2
Market reports show hog receipts around 3000 with holdovers about 5285 and cattle and sheep activity with prices up to 25 cents higher. Local notices recount Kalona Modern Woodmen meeting with twelve initiates and a sizeable attendance, plus Washington team involvement and strong turnout from Wellman.
Riverside Leader reports a Rock Island local branch train snowbound by a Blizzard causing huge delays. No. 402 arrived 30% hours late after a long snowdrift near Keswick. passengers lodged at a Keswick hotel overnight while crews battled to clear the line.
Riverside starts its baseball season Sunday May 1 facing the Atalissa team as the opponent. August Rath was elected manager at the week’s meeting and has begun arranging the opening game, signing Muscatine county as visitors. The grounds south of the river bridge will again host games with seating available.
John Simpson erected a large signboard on vacant lots opposite the stockyards and plans another at Broadway's west end for national advertising. He bought the Washington territory signboard business, a larger operation than many imagine, with as many kinks as the newspaper field.
The New York Sun and lectures program note Mrs. Margaret Hoard, superintendent at the American Museum of Natural History, introducing speakers and writing critical resumes. A Studio feature praises her marble sculpture Pastor al with a winged nymph, highlighting her Washington connections as Chie O’Loughlin.
The Winfield Consolidated School District will vote on issuing bonds to build and equip a new school. Estimated cost is 160000 dollars to construct a modern building and provide a suitable site for district students.
Dr. Gageby formerly of Washington now based in Chicago will preach at the Cotter church next Sabbath evening at 7 30 o'clock. Sunday school is set for 10 09 a m.
The notice stresses clean air and daily airing of bedclothes for two hours. It warns elderdown quilts are less hygienic than washable woolen blankets and urges care since a third of life is spent in the bedroom. a clean airy sleeping space is essential for health and good sleep.
In the woods of India small brown bears called honey bears search for wild bee hives. They are naturally suited to obtain honey with two upper incisors missing and highly extensible lips aiding access to honey.
Personal notes from Cedar to West Chester list farmers and spray material calls including T. C. Reeves H. D. Luers A. M. Weaver and others planning corn and soybeans fields. Reports mention limestone shipments Howard Sigafoose and Theo Ortez hogging down crops and experimental potatoes. Discussion covers spraying after winter damage and a bill on disposing of dead animal carcasses and dissemination of agricultural statistics with $6 500 allocated for Weather and Crops Service.
Iowa state institutions census shows 9622 residents with 3 month admissions across Anamosa Fort Madison Oaksdale Rockwell City and other facilities. The fish and game commission prepares spring pike distribution from Spirit Lake and later in autumn from Mississippi rescue stocks to Iowa waters.
The legislative committee of the state federation has secured necessary measures to enable collective bargaining and to form organizations and corporations to carry out the Committee of Seventeen’s plans.
Iowa lawmakers passed six marketing related bills by near unanimous votes. Key acts include the Privilege Act for Cooperative Associations, a Collective Bargaining Law, the Bonded Warehouse Act, and three finance measures enabling credit corporations and investment of bank funds. A Spur Track Act extension and critique of the Serum Act are noted, with emphasis on Golden Rule adherence. The Pure Seed Bill aims to unify seed laws with neighboring states and curb unlawful weed seeds while regulating intra state seed shipments.
The Farmers Union of Young America district featured a program last night with short talks songs and a play titled Matrimonial Advertisement The plot follows Jack and Mary Cole trying to urge Aunt Martha to answer a matrimonial ad only to learn the initials C G stand for Cyrus Goodrich Aunt Martha's brother The cast includes Mrs Ernest Carlson John Cherry Mrs Merle Eckles Edgar Porter and Mrs Jim Phillips The May 20 stunt night is announced with all members urged to perform.
The text notes March is largely unlucky for weddings except the 27th if it falls on a Wednesday. It claims couples married that day will be kind and loving to each other for life and will acquire great wealth.
The article notes a change in Japan from removing shoes at entry to wearing occidental footwear. It observes western-style shoes replacing old ones and mentions tanks of water with long brushes placed outside shops and homes for washing shoes before entering.
In a crowded Chicago transit car a woman helped locate a purse that had been hanging on an umbrella. The narrator wished to vanish as others aided the search and found the missing bag in plain sight.
A scientist reports a kiss weighs about five milligrams, noting the finding cannot be expressed in watts volts or ohms in an easily understood way.
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