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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1920
Page
2
Chicago market update shows estimated hog receipts at 13 000 and cattle 4 000 with mixed hearings. Beef steers and heavy weights strength contrasts with slower pace in butcher cattle. Lambs and sheep moves noted with official cash close for grains and oats.
Plans for a new fish hatchery at Clear Lake were finalized after a meeting between the local Commercial club committee and the state executive committee. The facility will sit on the north shore with 140 feet of frontage and buildings 34 by 69 feet, with operation expected by next spring to boost fish supply and size in the lake.
In Sioux Rapids on Tuesday Gilbert Remillard died after an accident in the F. D. White pasture east of town. He became entangled with a rope, the horse dragged him and fell on him. He lay undiscovered for hours, died at 6 o’clock the following morning despite medical efforts.
The piece explains that Taffy, a Welsh nickname for Davy, and Sawney for Alexander, Pat for Patrick, and John for John Bull designate nationalities. It notes Brother Jonathan fell from use, replaced largely by Uncle Sam for the United States.
Farm department notes Dwarf Essex rape as top annual hog forage in northern states with early seeding up to August. Wire worm damages Iowa corn. rotation and early silage advised. Study details cost of producing 100 pounds of milk in summer and winter in Northwestern Indiana with monthly cost nuances.
The Ainu view washing as paying debt to civilization by cleansing face and hands on great occasions. The Tibetan values body oil for warmth in mountains and rarely washes the body but allows occasional face and fingertip washing.
When paint has spattered the windows it may be removed with steel wool more quickly and easily than with a coin a putty knife or other devices which are often tried.
Iowa county treasurers adopt a resolution at the state convention to push a winter law providing 25 cents per license collected as reimbursement. Funds would come from auto owners' taxes to keep treasurers' offices self supporting. Elections named officers for treasurers and recorders.
A missionary society meets at a home when a boy discovers a woman's elastic band on her Bible and declares it to be his mother's garter. The moment interrupts the devotion with a humorous twist in a quiet gathering.
The passage notes smoking is widespread in Japan with men and most women smoking. It mentions girls start around age ten and that women use longer pipes. When showing favor a lady may light her pipe, take a puff, then offer it to a gentleman to smoke.
Deficient temperature sunshine and rainfall hindered crop growth with most of the state’s corn in the soft condition and not denting yet. Unusually favorable weather is needed next month to avert frost damage while oats barley yields are normal or better in the north. Feeder cattle move into the state as rain-reliant truck crops and potatoes suffer. Mitchell county onions yield 550 bushels per acre.
Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal church criticizes the third party idea and its principles while touring the Midwest. He argues both major parties nominated stronger vice presidential candidates, cites Coolidge, and predicts Harding's election amid churchmen’ s mixed views on divorce and league issues. He is touring through Bloomfield to Monmouth, visiting sister Mrs. W B Taylor in Bloomfield.
State committeemen of the Young Men's Christian Association will hold a two day conference with local Y M C A committees in Waterloo on September 15 and 16 to review the year’s program and plan for local stabilization. They will confer with county workers and with leaders at Iowa State Teacher's College Cedar Falls. Attending are W H Northcott Des Moines Harry Goodrich Pipher Terrell Ambrose Wyrick and others. The event is an annual fall gathering to review past work and plan for the coming year.
A tale of an old enslaved man unjustly reproved for a missing item. He answers with quiet humor that he has enough to answer for with the sensations of what is just without being responsible for those that are not.
A lad overhears his father complaining about coal costs and coolly quips that he would not buy more coal because they only burn it, capturing a quiet domestic humor in the exchange.
The umbrella arrived in England as a luxury sunshade in the early seventeenth century. Ben Jonson mentions it in a 1616 comedy. By the eighteenth century, after half the century passed, the umbrella was used by both sexes as today.
The note reflects a social aim of economical dress while avoiding misidentification as a capitalist. It discusses maintaining appearances through attire to navigate class perception and social expectations in public life.
An animal removal service advertises free removal with prompt response. Call on their expense and a truck will arrive quickly to pick up carcasses.
An advertisement claims rheumatism stems from the blood and praises S. S. as a thorough remedy used for over fifty years. It asserts the treatment targets disease germs in the blood and offers free expert medical advice from Swift Laboratory in Atlanta.
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