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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1920
Page
2
Chicago traders received mixed signals as hogs and cattle futures showed varying steady to lower ranges while beef and cattle movement remained brisk. Wheat and corn prices fluctuated with nearby contracts higher on improved Chicago cash activity and European market influences.
Charles Reynolds reports a record oats harvest from twenty acres, threshing 1,738 bushels by machine measure at eighty seven bushels per acre. The white lowar variety, tested by Iowa State College at Ames, showed strong yields, with weights near 100 bushels per acre. The article notes U S population growth slowed by war and influenza.
A fragment paragraph lists various coin prices including 52 0c and 12¢ as examples of monetary amounts. It appears as a price listing or OCR snippet without a clear event or narrative context. No identifiable people or organizations are present.
Iowa vocational instructors at Iowa State College propose farm households form father son partnerships to give boys a share of farm returns, possibly five percent, with funds partly spent and partly invested. Other notes cover higher livestock commission rates nationwide, benefits of self feeding hogs on pasture, and using soybean hay as emergency feed with management tips for cutting, wilting, and curing.
The phrase withdrawing room derived from the drawing room and was once the ladies retreat during meals. In Viking days it was common for women to withdraw from the dining room leaving husbands to their drinks in the withdrawing room.
August 2. Red Oak Iowa farmer Fossa C Hush runs a near Climax farm wireless station among the most capable amateur setups in the state. He receives from Germany, Norway, and US coast stations, with send and receive gear set in his residence and capable of reaching Roswell New Mexico and Battle Creek Michigan. He began with government-time receiving, added a sending set before WWI, dismantled during the war, then rebuilt after returning to farming, aiding other amateurs in relaying messages nationwide. He predicts the grip of wireless is lasting and notes the global reach via airwaves.
Des Moines state curator recalls a ten foot Towa snake captured near Knoxville in 1880 after terrorizing a rural area. Smokers forced the snake from its den into a cabin on wheels, later breaking out, then moving to Des Moines and finally sold to a circus in an urban pen.
In December 1866 English mechanics Solomon Chamber s and his son organized the first Odd Fellows lodge in New York City. Named the Shakespeare lodge No 1 it started with five members. By 1869 six lodges existed in New York City.
Disturbing raid on the Charles Kennedy farm near Meservey by Sheriff Marsh and deputies yielded a still and bottles of moonshine liquor. George Bener, a Decker Packing Plant employee, was arrested as alleged agent and salesman for the moonshiner. Kennedy and Bener face charges of maintaining a liquor nuisance. both are to appear at the courthouse Saturday morning.
Boston August 2 Governor Coolidge directed Attorney General Allen to investigate the Ponzi operation after Charles Ponzi announced earnings of 24 million dollars in eight months from trading international postal reply coupons.
A Washington Indiana woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health and enabling a normal pregnancy after prior nervousness and fear. The letter claims the remedy can correct sterility and has helped many women become mothers.
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