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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1922
Page
2
Chicago market summary shows mixed cattle hog and lamb quotes with receipts estimates for today. Hogs and cattle volumes lead the day while lambs see steady to higher bids and beef weights command highs near 10.25 for prime steers. Official yesterday totals reflect cattle sheep and calves with 31697 19710 and 277? shipments.
Des Moines August 21 Radio sets in Iowa are not a major fire threat says State Fire Marshal J A Tracy. He notes only two fires traced to radios in the state and credits preventive instructions from radio companies and careful installation by salesmen. Fire losses for the first six months reach six million dollars, up from last year, with automobiles and electrical developments cited as growing hazards. A new night airmail beacon system will place beacons every 25 miles between New York and Chicago with two large fields at Chicago for night landings.
Henry County Farm Bureau notes detail Geo Kepper’s hog operation one mile north of Winfield. From March to August he shipped 280 stock hogs from Missouri, with vaccination success and rapid fattening on clover and green pasture.
Thousands watch the I N G Horse Show on Camp Dodge hills near Des Moines with Col. Park A. Findley in charge. Events include riding, jumping, mounted wrestling, drills, and a rifle shoot with high scores posted for units from Iowa City to Des Moines and Burlington among others.
A bureau report notes the broom dominates farm home cleaning despite 10 to 50 percent market share erosion from substitutes like push brushes and vacuum cleaners. May 1922 broom sales reached about 247000 dozen, up 23 percent from 1921, while broom corn use rose 26 percent year to year. The piece also mentions a New York mental health verdict on women smoking and a Ceylon lizard’s leather use, plus Hudson’s Bay Company announcing a 45 percent dividend in its 252nd year.
Abol Gohsen Bakhtiar, a young Persian, walked from Manhattan to Iowa City in thirteen days after failing to find a suitable course at Columbia. The future University of Iowa entrant left Teheran’s American High School after wartime disruptions and aims for further studies in America despite early poverty and varied work.
The narrative describes a native interpreter to relief workers who sailed for New York in 1919 and entered Columbia University with a $2000 scholarship. He plans a medical course and return to Persia to dedicate himself to the uplift of his homeland.
Thousands of Des Moines and Iowa residents saw the Old 168th Infantry reviewed by Governor Kendall at Camp Dodge marking the reunion. The procession featured the 168th band and battalions led by Col. Lloyd Ross and Col. Glenn C. Haynes with Crutch and armless marchers. Chaplain Winfred Robb led a memorial service with addresses by Gen. Tinley and several colonels.
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