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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1921
Page
2
Estimated receipts today hogs 4 000 cattle 600 sheep 2 000. Market fairly active mostly steady with top hog price 9.90 and bulk sales 7.40 to 9.25. Packing sows and pigs shown with weight categories and price ranges. Official yesterday totals list hogs 14 580 cattle 2 614 sheep 11 707 calves 669 shipments hogs 5 629 cattle 2 516 sheep 7 841 calves 118.
Chicago market officials question whether futures contracts must be closed before the measure takes effect in four months. Secretary Mauff says the law recognizes future trading legality, sets a three-member regulatory commission, imposes a tax on indemnities, and delays penalties until four months hence.
The New York World quotes an American authority on men's clothing calling President Harding the best dressed since Garfield. It notes Harding’s New York appearance for the Boliver monument unveiling with a 2 button cutaway in Oxford gray, light gray striped trousers, white silk striped shirt, black silk scarf, and high fold collar. It contrasts Harding with Wilson Taft Roosevelt McKinley Cleveland Arthur Garfield Harrison and others.
A mysterious stranger offered real liquor to five local men in Hampton for 100 each, selling five gallon demijohns at 20 per gallon. The container allegedly held real fire water but contained only a quart of liquid with seven quarts of water around it. The scheme aimed to exploit thirsty residents amid prohibition era temptations.
Last evening train 26 en route from Crawfordsville to Winfield was struck by an automobile driven by James Marshall of near Cairo at the Metzgar crossing between Crawfordsville and Wyman. Marshall sustained serious injuries and was carried to a Burlington hospital by train with Mrs. Marshall reportedly unhurt.
In Burlington on August 27 a thief stole Rev. John H. Cudlipp's clothes from his unguarded home at 521 North Sixth Street. The thief took a full dress suit and various garments but left behind the newest suit and some silverware and jewelry of minor value. The pastor and family were away on vacation.
A small girl at the West Indianapolis branch library asked which city directory man her father was. She said he is either a millioneer or an engineer, a detail she could not recall, leaving the librarian to sort through names.
The article recommends pyrophosphate of soda to remove ink stains without harming fiber, noting it forms colorless compounds with iron oxide. First apply tallow to the spot, then wash with pyrophosphate until both vanish, or use a mix of four parts tartar and two parts powdered alum.
Journal reports Sept 17 sale dates featuring W R Gamon Poland China stock. Spencer details Hall of Peterson in Clay County paying income tax on six acres in 1920, leasing railroad land for trucking manure, growing muskmelons likely to net over 1500, 12300 tomato vines, peppers onions and potatoes, sending nutmeg musk melons to the Iowa State Fair. Warren County Fair in Indianola sets a new high, with partnerships of Indianola merchants and Warren County Farm Bureau, surpassing all prior records despite no horse racing or carnivals.
Miss Celia Simons of Fremont county Iowa earned 92.14 from her poultry flock in June and July. Her purebred Leghorns produced 5519 eggs in June and 3646 in July from 291 and 280 hens respectively, with a 63.2 percent laying rate.
County agriculture agents will run a farm bureau camp near the assembly tent at the Iowa state fair. Speakers include H. C. Wallace J. R. Howard and John Coverdale on Farm Bureau day. Women and children programs plus demonstrations in Ames College and boys and girls club buildings are planned daily. The automobile show will debut the 1922 models in the machinery hall.
The article notes consignors graded wheat and invoiced consignments at the contract price agreed with their consignees. The detail highlights the pricing method tied to contractual terms and shipment quality.
A. W. Rudnick of Iowa State College urges farmers to keep cream at high grade to raise butter quality. Farmers install chillers and follow cream handling instructions as more than 100 buttermakers submit over 200 twenty-five pound tubs for quality scoring this year, revealing where butter falls short.
County attorneys from nearly every county will attend a state house meeting called by Attorney General Ben Gibson on Monday to review railroad suits challenging tax collections under boosted valuations set by the state executive council. The railroads have served notice of suit on all county auditors, pulling in county attorneys to the cases.
Publishers and editors from forty two countries will visit Waterloo September 26 as guests of two local newspapers. They arrive on two special trains at 7 am and will tour the city and surrounding area during their brief stay.
Called meeting of the Farmers Union to be held in Washington at Woodman Hall on Tuesday August 20 at 2 oclock. This pre state convention gathering urges all members to attend with Uncle Doran present. Important subjects to be discussed. WM Sutherland president J B Rabenold secretary treasurer.
Danville Virginia reports drought since May 8 has cut the expected tobacco crop to about half of last year’s. Farmers remove top leaves green to slow deterioration, yielding inferior cured tobacco. Some fields see peas plowed under as corn turns yellow and brown across the countryside.
Findings of the Secretary of Agriculture show violations of the United States grain standards act by Scroggins Grain Co of Minneapolis. The firm quoted "no dockage" on wheat while cars contained 1 to 5 percent dockage, ignored inspectors notes, and misrepresented the grade to buyers.
Centerville Aug 27 Mrs. John Chaney, 24, asks Judge Francis M. Hunter to grant her a divorce for the third time. Her first divorce was in 1918 after a cross action she started. her second husband C Ostulund died the day of the divorce, and she then married Cheney before seeking release again due to his alleged infidelity.
At the Empire store in Albert Lea two young girls Frances Buffum eight and Catherine Smith four were forgotten by traveling parents from Montezuma and Sully Iowa. George Bagan sheltered and helped locate the girls until the parents were reached by telephone in Alden Minnesota.
Des Moines reports Edward B. Kimball of the Iowa Manufacturing Association says Iowa industries can enlarge operations as purchasing power strengthens from debt liquidation and farm rehabilitation. He notes manufacturers tightened borrowing but are ready to move with more liberal demand and farmers likely to buy essentials again.
Bert Lytell stars in The Misleading Lady at the Fox Theatre for two days starting Monday. The cave man twist cast as a woman hater who teaches a society girl primal emotion unfolds from a New York stage hit by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey. Craigen, returning engineer, pursues Helen Steele to his Adirondack lodge where she resists and then loves him as murder enters the plot.
A Boston dispatch argues dress reform began there in 1634 but credits Detroit Free Press notes that Boston lacks a strong ancient reputation for such reform. The piece links fashion reform to broader social shifts and cites editorials from the era.
Oscar Kemp of Quaker Oats sues 32 Cedar Rapids merchants over a failed prize in a wheat grain guess contest. Kemp, who placed 92 guesses, claimed the car and seeks 1420 dollars plus 6 percent interest from July 21, 1921, noting the contest closed July 19.
Nauvoo Illinois Aug 2 The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints gathers for a ten day encampment with tent meetings across the town. Historic buildings including the Mansion House are on display as visitors from Burlington arrive to attend the event.
French Major Lauzanne led a trek from Algiers to Daker taking 159 days across northwestern Africa. The party lost a patrol to desert bandits and perished in the wastes while mapping the desert. A second expedition found an oasis used by roaming bands, reportedly never visited by whites, with camels marching four hundred miles without water. Outlook.
The article states seven tenths of the globe is water and oceans cover more area than lands by 83 million square miles. It notes oceans hold 824 cubic miles of fluid, about fourteen times the land mass above sea level.
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