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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1919
Page
2
Estimated receipts today reach 7,000 hogs and 1,000 cattle with 2,000 sheep. Market strong to 5 cents higher than yesterday, tops at 21.10, heavy weights 20.95 to 21.10, light weights up to 21.00, sows 18.75 to 20.50, pigs 17.25 to 19.00. Week-ago comparison shows steers steady, other classes uneven 25 to 65 lower. lambs and yearlings 40 to 50 lower. best mutton steady to weak.
Market note shows grain futures closing figures supplied by E. W. Wagner and Co of Iowa City. Manager J. B. Hunt reports on the trading activity and price directions for grain commodities.
Eighty five year old farmer T C Cobb ran amuck at Garland Oklahoma killing Edward Elvott and John H Cobb his son. He shot his wife and daughter in law before taking his own life. The wounded include Mrs T C Cobb and Mrs Joan Hi Cobb.
W. S. Reister & Sons advertise as cash buyers of butter eggs poultry and cream. They claim cows and cream selling offer steady income and cite Mrs. L. E. Hoyle in Jackson Center who from five cows produced a five gallon cream can worth 14.40 at 60 cents per pound. Prices stand as Thursday April 24 with eggs slightly higher.
The Journal notes that farm income figures should reflect cost of production amid high feed and input costs. Tractor demonstrations at La Crosse and orchard regions draw crowds, with a possible national show planned in Washington. Berlin Food Admin HQs opening signals continued export demand as oats experience profit-taking while remaining buoyant.
The Journal clarifies that the Farm Bureau gathering was a director level meeting not a banquet. Directors were asked to bring neighbors if they wished, but no banquet was planned.
The Journal offers Simplicity Service Farm Records to subscribers to simplify sales and expenditure tracking for farmers. The booklets aid income tax calculations and are sold at cost for 40 cents each, with a returnable guarantee and two cents postage.
Weekly Grain and Provision reports record high corn and wheat prices for deliveries in the past week as July and September futures hit new highs. Provisions sell at peak prices with Food Administration Grain Corp signaling no wheat sales to millers, boosting demand for breadstuffs. Argentina’s corn shipments dip while War Trade Board eases imports, sparking a late market selloff. car availability improves. May corn has not sold in 78 days.
Ames April 26 After ten years of Arkansas scrub cow trials the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station announces results that a good bull plus quality feed and care over generations increases milk and profits. Bulletin 188 titled Influence of Environment and Breeding in Increasing Dairy Production marks a landmark in U S dairy work.
In Muscatine county April 26 farmer J. W. Merrill says growers will plant more soy beans than ever as feed for hogs and sheep. He notes varieties suited to planting times and counties, orders seed, and mentions free seed from Ames Agricultural College with three small experiments for farmers to follow.
In Crawfordsville on April 26 Mr and Mrs W A Harper and daughter Margaret of Washington visited Mrs T W Rickey. Mrs W A Gardner returned from Muscatine after attending a Women's Home Missionary convention where she was elected president for next year. Social Hour club members enjoyed an afternoon with Mrs Pearl McNeill listening to Victrola music and refreshments by Doris and Twila McNeill. Violet bouquets decorated the event with Miss Mary Martin of Colchester Lil as an out of town guest. Friends received word yesterday.
The local column notes the death of Mrs. Mary Aitkin in Colorado Springs on April 14, known earlier as Mary McKinnie. It also reports Mrs. N J Armstrong, a former resident, dying of pneumonia after influenza near Fairfield and burial in Winfield, and mentions Grace Lease returning home to spend the weekend near Winfield.
The Muscatine district of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church meets in Keota April 29 30 with memorial services and The Challenge of the Cross sacred drama. Lydia Christensen from Ghaziabad India and Mrs Flora Dudley speak. Keota schools enter declamation contests May 2.
Reading the long history of potatoes shows their slow adoption across Europe and Asia. From 16th century introductions by Spanish explorers to Queen Elizabeth era tastings, reformers in France and Britain promoted potatoes as cheap food. Louis XVI popularized them with a grand feast and a potato flower in his buttonhole, spreading fashion and daily use from Paris to Munich and beyond.
August Kurtz, 64, was fatally injured when his car rolled over him after he left the vehicle to restart the engine. His wife, unaware of the mechanism, could not stop it as the auto ran through a ditch, fence, and pasture before a farmer intervened. Kurtz died hours later. he left a wife and nine children.
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