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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1922
Page
2
Chicago April 29 market summary shows cattle hogs and sheep receipts and prices. Strong to higher tone with mixed bids. notes on weights, grade ranges and ranges for hogs and cattle. Wheat corn and oats futures and cash bids listed with opening figures and daily highs lows.
In a Find Yourself Week by the YWCA, 625 high school girls listed career goals. Most favored business related fields, many choosing nursing teaching and library work. only one sought acting, none pursued cinema, and one considered marriage as a career. The study shows girls aim for gainful occupations after high school amid calls that questioned their seriousness.
The article notes that elephant tusk dust is produced in English factories as tusks are cut. It is sold cheap and boiled to make a fine powder used as a medical aid and for polish, prescribed for the sick.
Cedar Rapids April 29 flapper fashion notes from H Rosen shield Chicago manager of a major jeweler predict garter bells will remain popular. He foresees new music from bells at dances and cautions against clashy color choices insisting auburn hair suit jade earrings and recommends conservative small earrings for bobbed hairstyles.
A Chicago Tribune item recalls a family moment at dinner when the son tells the minister that his father prays every time they eat there. The anecdote highlights a small exchange about faith during a routine meal.
A Boston Transcript comment notes that when a young man asks a girl for her photograph she instantly classifies him as a matrimonial possibility.
Fremont county farm bureau holds many meetings with bee events soil erosion demos seed plots and livestock feeding talks. Greene County organizes poultry association and Jefferson hosts county wool growers talk by Arthur Leonard. Hamilton County plans extensive orchard spraying and dual demonstrations report 207 farmers with spray rings and $1000 in materials ordered. Delaware tests TB in 32 cattle with 8 percent reactors the highest in the state. Dubuque to plant 100 acres alfalfa seed for the county. Marshall County health and nutrition work sees 168 families and 132 school children engaged with whole wheat bread adoption and health plays.
Fight spray rings have been organized in Hardin county spraying 142 orchards or 3 300 trees in all Orchard pruning demonstrations were held in eight townships Great interest is being shown in this work this year.
In Elk River township Clinton county a two day short course featured Professors Fitch and Churchill of Iowa State College with talks on farm crops and vegetables. A good corn and small grain display was shown and liberal premiums offered. Chas H. Obye Cedar county agent provided moving picture demonstrations one day.
County agent Walter Osborn says Decatur County farmers show strong interest in beekeeping. A recent meeting drew many beekeepers and three cooperative demonstration apiaries were added, bringing the total to four for the year. The county Beekeepers Association is growing.
In Wellman Iowa on Thursday evening Dr Hanley preached on Repentance from Mark 6 12 and 13 urging humility over sin and condemning gossip as a major town sin He urged personal repentance and invited both church members feeling lacking and nonmembers to come forward at the end as many responded to the call for salvation.
In a small Amperian grocery, clerks observe a quirky scene as patrons chew brown sugar flakes. The more they spit out, the more lather forms, turning the incident into an unintended spectacle for the clerks who dislike such antics.
Fragmentary OCR lines mention names and places in rough, unclear wording. No coherent event or details emerge to anchor a complete news item or identify persons, dates, or organizations with certainty.
Bremer county home demonstration agent Margaret B Harris reports four one day clothing work training schools held in Waverly Sumner Tripoli and Readlyn. Twenty six farm women received instruction bringing county total to eighty five. Short cuts in sewing were explained at the meetings with Miss Callie Map Bliss of Ames addressing the group.
Marg Harris, Bremer County home demonstration agent, reports over 400 pounds of cheese made in county farm homes in six months, equating to about 4 000 pounds of milk converted.
Cedar county Iowa faces TB in poultry flocks with over 70 percent infected and seven percent of its 59 000 cattle tubercular. County agent C H Obye urges farmers to test their livestock to curb the spread.
Iowa City dealers report manufactured ice at six dollars per thousand pounds this season down from eight fifty last year while river ice sells for five fifty per thousand, with four companies supplying a plentiful stock and no ice famine expected.
The Waterloo Evening Courier purchased a two story fireproof business block at Jefferson street and Park avenue. The new building, 80 by 135 feet with white glazed brick facade, will be occupied early this fall and provide more than twice the space of the old setup. The basement features a twelve foot ceiling.
In Detroit on April 20 ten men were seriously hurt with one in grave danger after an acetylene welding department explosion at the Fisher Body company West Side plant. Leigh Lynch, production manager, said a worker discarded an exhausted acetylene tank and failed to close its valve. A new tank was substituted and the used cylinder exploded, causing about $25,000 in damage.
A major forest fire advancing on a five mile front near Lakewood New Jersey weakened overnight but remained dangerous toward Laureltom Park seven and a half miles southeast. John D Rockefeller's 150 acre Greenville estate was threatened and workers aided in protecting it while timber damage rose to five million dollars.
Leominster Massachusetts April 20 Edward J Driscoll president of the chamber of commerce said unemployment here is worse than on January 1 and blamed the bobbed hair mania for reducing demand for combs hairpins and barrettes Leominster s chief industry Soldier Admits Killing Sergeant Mount Holly New Jersey April 20 Grover Landis Duncan of Windfolk Tennessee a soldier at Camp Dix has confessed to killing Michael Gregor a supply sergeant at the camp on September 9 Det Detective Marker said Duncan claimed self defense after a dispute over a trivial matter
Hoopeston officials report Miss Gertrude Hanna twenty five year old former school teacher found dead in the United Presbyterian church parsonage and coroner indicates pregnancy as a factor. Authorities intensify murder inquiry as they pursue leads in the case.
Henry Jacob a nineteen year old hotel pantry boy was convicted of the murder of Lady Alice White widow of Sir Edward White former London County Council chairman and sentenced to death. The trial at the central criminal court related to events on March 14.
Moscow reports the operation on Nikolai Lenin was successful. Doctor Burghardt, a German specialist, extracted a dum-dum bullet from Lenin's right shoulder where it lodged after the would be assassin fired.
Tokio reports a readjustment after the Washington conference pact cuts the Japanese navy enlistment period from three to two years as part of dismantling measures.
W Stevenson, a Fayette County farmer, argues the farm bureau boosts tax efficiency and farm prosperity. He compares land values, county aid of 3000 dollars, and 1921 taxes, noting renters pay little for the bureau and county agent. He cites pruning, spraying, poultry culling, soil fertility, seed selection, and co operative buying as real benefits.
Members of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association adopted a resolution to resist interference with free expression under the constitutional guarantee. The open shop division of the Typothetae is praised as beneficial to job printers and publishers, and a proposal to establish an open shop division within the association is endorsed.
Charles H. Russell, sixty four, was found dead in his chair in his Champaign office on April 20. He was shot through the heart. A Bible lay open at Romans chapters six and seven on his desk. A note to an undertaker directed him to take charge of the body. Domestic affairs were believed to have troubled him.
Serious disturbances reported in Guanajuato capital after a textile factory was attacked following a worker protest. Clashes occurred and troops patrolled the streets as authorities sought to restore order.
The article advises placing plants in the bath tub to water thoroughly. Soak them well, especially the undersides of leaves where insects are found, to ensure proper hydration and pest check.
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