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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1921
Page
2
Chicago market update shows hogs and cattle with varied demand and price ranges. Estimates day receipts include hogs 3 000 and cattle 1 000 while yesterday counts list hogs 33 350 and cattle 3 858 with shipments of hogs 10 381 and cattle 2 080. Livestock projections for Monday peg hogs 23 000 cattle 17 000 sheep 15 000 and provide ongoing pricing context.
Clinton will have its new 660000 high school ready for occupancy when school resumes in September. The building, on Coanfields, is funded by a gift from Mrs. W. F. Coan. Driveways and sidewalks are currently being laid as progress continues.
Judge Ernest Smith of Springheld, VI rules that former governor Len Small is not immune to arrest and prosecution, affirming the authority to prosecute alleged crimes despite immunity claims.
The article notes insects living in dead snags survive winter despite cold. Their small bodies resist freezing and they scramble when shelter is disrupted, yet often remain in torpid states even in warmer spells.
Ruth Law and three top stunt flyers join the Iowa state fair roster. Law performs a dangerous wing walk while looping the loop, the only woman to do so. Daredevil James leaps from a speeding car to a rope ladder lowered from a plane. Lieut Verne Treat of Law’s circus to give nightly illuminated flight shows looping the loop.
The Iowa State Fair will host the largest junior program yet from August 24 to September 2 with eight dollars and fifty-one cents in premiums. Competitions include pig and calf club work, cooking canning sewing and livestock judging. A free camp for junior entrants is announced with Hey Stouts of Town to host a camp at Fairtime.
A cotton man, asked by a bank officer about a large note due tomorrow, learns the officer plans to stay in banking. The cotton man abruptly questions the banker and muses that tomorrow the banker will become a cotton merchant, in a humorous reversal.
The American Forestry Magazine notes a New Zealand black pine with a joint aroma suggesting sewn mows bay. The odd claim highlights a botanical quirk attracting attention in early forestry circles.
The quote notes a man who avoids claiming future feats avoids explaining later why they were not realized, emphasizing the virtue of restraint over boastful ambition.
Journal reports farm department sales in Washington and Columbus Junction with Poland China stock. aug 10 entries list Duroc Jersey and Poland China animals. Wagner Weekly Review notes wheat export demand moderating despite large corn crop hopes and discusses oats, barley, and furfural potential from corn cobs.
Ames Iowa Aug 6 The Iowa engineering experiment station reports chemists at Iowa State College can extract a range of materials from corn cobs. If tests planned for next year confirm these findings corn cobs may become a valuable Iowa product rather than a waste byproduct.
In isolated West canyons horses run free though many belong to ranchers who let them go. Wild burros appear in Arizona and occasionally Utah. The era of the old wild herds on mountain plateaus has likely ended.
In earlier centuries people wore excessively long shoe points. To prevent tripping, both men and women began tying the shoetips to their knees with laces or cords, creating a distinctive historical fashion.
The National Kindergarten Association in New York continues its weekly column on home child training. This installment is the 30th in the fourth series issued from 8 West 40th Street, New York City.
The article argues that directed imitation and doll play develop intelligence in young children. It highlights how manipulating objects like a doll or a horse shoeing scenario builds observation, planning, and problem solving. It cites the need for early education and suggests establishing kindergartens via the National Kindergarten Association.
The text describes motion pictures being developed in sections wound around wooden frames and towed into state tanks with developer. They are moved to a drying chamber where they are wound around large wooden drums spun by electric power. In a large printing facility miles of film can be dried in hours.
A child told by his religious mother that God is everywhere says at supper that God is inside him and warns, Look out, God, there’s some hot soup comin. The tale highlights a child’s literal interpretation of omnipresence during a family mealtime.
A Boston area garage owner tired of standard entrances hid the original signs and replaced them with cheeky labels reading In take and Exhaust. The playful miscue turns an ordinary doorway into a local running joke at the repair shop.
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