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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1921
Page
2
Chicago August 13 Fat hog receipts about 5000 with 12194 holdover. Cattle receipts around 500 with 3090 head held over. Market fairly active steady to 26 higher. Hog price ranges from 9.60 to 11.10 with various weight classes noted. Sheep and calves receipts listed with totals and shipments provided.
Des Moines reports from A. L. Urick, state labor commissioner, estimate at least 100000 Iowa workers unemployed. He cites factory and industry layoffs, with about 462 percent of normal staffing. Harvest labor has drawn about 2000 workers, paying around 5 dollars daily. Some sectors, like packing, auto and canning, show limited activity while threshing equipment and farm implement factories remain largely closed.
The drama Reraption to be shown at the Fox Theater for two days features Charles Ray in his most ambitious independent role. He plays the son supporting a widowed mother, delivering emotional scenes alongside humor, as Steel earns the label yellow by refusing to fight a drunk, losing his girl and his job to support his mother.
A promoter offers $200 to our best local battler for a three round match against the town’s top fighter known as Scrap Tron. If Scrap Tron loses in three rounds the promoter pays the rival $200. if knocked out early nothing. The bout, crafted as a realistic picture, ends with a tense final round as Scrap Tron shifts focus to securing $260 for three rounds and arranging a Fox appearance coming Tuesday or Wednesday.
Hinkhouse of Illinois and Amis of Cairo Egypt wed after a chance meeting in Egypt. The groom Paul McClure Hinkhouse is son of J Finkhouse of Lence College. Bride Aret ta C Amis is daughter of Thomas and Mrs Amis of Cairo Egypt. Officiating clergyman was the groom's father Dr J F Hinkhouse. The piece also notes army worms in New Brunswick, and tame Musk ducks in the West Indies.
The article notes opposition to tuberculin test regulation by some cattle dealers while highlighting a Massachusetts case where a reactor cow was sold to a state institution and later found to be tuberculous. It cites the lack of anti tuberculosis laws in Massachusetts, summarizes livestock market prices, and includes a broad farm market review with grain and dairy trends plus a note that Alice Robertson presided in the House.
Paris dispatch reports Dr. A F Legendre a French writer on Chinese and Asiatic subjects warns the world Asia is at the white man s doors 900 000 000 strong The yellow peril is the greatest cloud on the horizon he says Japan s victory over Russia and Europe s losses have left the white race diminished Britain s support of Japan is criticized Imperialist Germanism and sovietism are linked He urges prompt action to counter Asia for the whites and offers economic studies to show the yellow race could become rivals unless whites expand commerce and lower prices.
The piece surveys Asiatic competition with Europe as Asiatic factories grow in Asia and colonial production expands in Europe. Siberian butter exports rise from 36 million to 106 million pounds by 1913, much sold as Danish butter, and Pan Asianism is labeled a reality. It notes U S stance on China and a shift toward Asia facing Europe. It also mentions a Chicago painter with a paralyzed arm who paints, a Census Bureau stat that one in eight Americans is foreign born, and Atlantic City’s hotel elevator to a beach tunnel.
A specially built ship will host a floating exposition displaying dredges to silk handkerchiefs. At sea it is an ordinary vessel, but in port its decks slide outward to create space equivalent to ten city blocks. The inaugural cruise will be to the Far East.
Mrs. Illiman testifies about severe back pain headaches and hemorrhages. After taking eight boxes of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and other Pinkham products she gains weight to 158 pounds and reports feeling well with notes of satisfaction from others.
A Washington citizen testifies that Doan kidney pills cured a severe back and kidney ailment after eight years of pain and immobility. He praises the remedy and urges others to buy Doan's Kidney Pills at all dealers, noting the price and the origin from Foster Milburn Company Buffalo NY.
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