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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1921
Page
2
Chicago market report shows receipts estimated for hogs 250 today and cattle 1,000, sheep 2,000. Hogs largely 25 to 35 cents lower with top 16.15 and averages around 9.22 Friday. Official yesterday totals include hogs 14,489 cattle 2,241 sheep 8,663 calves 746. Shipments list hogs 8,427 cattle 2,498 sheep 5,962 calves 257.
August 28 marks a sale of household goods by HS Beatty. September 17 is the sale date for W KR Gamon in Wash, listing two separate public sale events.
The Des Moines chapter leads a large Red Cross display in the Women's Building with Public Health Service demonstrations, nursing program showcases, and a movie program featuring topics from blind veterans training to health education. The exhibit includes junior work, home service, and services for ex servicemen, plus a popular health clown for children.
Chicago markets show wheat prices for September at around 1.17 to 1.18 with December near 1.14 to 1.15. Oats around 38 to 36 cents as cash trades move with steady or mixed tone. Towne reports 400 cars of corn at steady to up, old white oats quoted near 90 to 92 cents, No 2 yellow corn around 53 to 54 cents.
The plan includes a visit to Red Cross headquarters followed by guest registration to determine which county hosts the most fair attendees. The process aims to identify the county with the largest visitor turnout.
A Keokuk district court ruling favors the school board over a challenge by Mary L. Anderson. The suit attacked the board’s purchase of a full block for a new high school site and argued a vote was required before buying and questions about sinking fund investments. Judge W S Hamilton sustained the demurrer, ending the case.
Census Bureau figures show 61.86 billion cigarettes produced in the United States last year with 15.82 billion exported leaving about 46.0 billion for domestic use. Cigars and tobacco products also reported with tax revenues and state contributions listed.
A tip explains inserting three pins into the bottom of each candle to extend them. Set the candles on a holder using the pins to stabilize the upright position.
Prices listed by W. S. Reister & Sons include fresh laid eggs at per dot and butterfat cream per pound. Poultry items show hens ducks geese and turkeys priced per pound with old roosters and toms noted. old tom turkeys priced at low cents.
The article argues a turning business tide with better money and credit, rising commodity markets, and renewed investment confidence. It highlights rail equipment stocks as promising, notes high freight rates, lower wages, and abundant scrap from the disarmament conference. It forecasts wheat and corn trends, including potential dollar levels and crop prospects with regional yield notes from Champaign Illinois.
A vast oats surplus in the United States could push prices to new highs as Europe considers large imports. Analysts forecast 47 to 65 million bushels, with railroad and steamship rates to Europe key to a potential deal. The surge follows a 1920s crop spike and export shortfalls, creating a favorable window for U.K. purchases.
A Boston Transcript quip frames a humorous exchange where a generous hostess offers a meal but demands a return. The hobo replies that he will repay with meals as often as she desires.
Sioux City Aug 20 The Iowa highway commission is spending over 2 million dollars monthly on primary highway construction and maintenance while counties townships and bridges add up to more than 6 million dollars monthly in the peak season Anson Marston Ames told the Iowa League of Municipalities the program is vast and ongoing with last week alone totaling 1 196 000 in road projects across the state and the state draining and building earth roads to guide-line standards for over a thousand miles annually
The Iowa highway commission targets about 200 miles of new paving per year, spanning from the Minnesota line to the Missouri line, while pausing extensive programs due to economic hard times. Contracts in one county exceeding $700,000 were disapproved at rates of $52 to $58 thousand per mile.
A satirical call argues for complete prohibition to crush the onion evil as a national issue. It mocks partial bans and urges organizing societies to root out onions, insisting no half measures and demanding candidates repudiate any with even slight onion ties.
A wry observation contrasts philosophers' space time debates with a convict who sees his punishment as a fixed duration. He notes he is serving a large amount of time for a small amount of freedom left.
England shows a 65 percent increase in drunkenness with 95 763 convictions in the last year versus 57 948 in 1919. Women’s convictions rise 46 percent from 1919, and experts link the rise to wartime closing laws and illicit drinking dens. Health data from 1920 report lower tuberculosis, infant mortality, and a rising birth rate.
Ted Hammond reports Jacob Diamond files in Superior Court for $10,000 damages after an auto collision damages his three legged horse and breaks its wooden leg. The horse has worn the wooden leg for five years and once caught fire prompting the fire department.
A farmer near Mountain View reported Pekin ducks vanished when a creek disappears into a hole and reemerges across Pine Mountain. Years earlier the farmer found the flock on the far side of the mountain, having hidden along a subterranean stream.
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