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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1919
Page
2
Chicago hog receipts estimated 24 000 with 11 318 holdovers. Cattle receipts 11 000. sheep 28 000. Market mostly 100 to 125 higher. beef steers and feeders show varied gains and losses. Lambs and ewes move lower with some prime lots noted. western ranges softening.
CHAS. V. SHORT traces silo origins from ancient pits to modern storage. He cites 1918 US totals of 413 974 silos, and Michigan Indiana New York and Missouri counts, noting rapid adoption and rising farm efficiency through preserved feed and cost savings.
Grain futures and cash market details from Iowa City show Sept corn at 1.76, Dec 1.37, May 1.33, with oats at 0.70 to 0.76. Cash corn quoted at 1.88 to 1.91 with last sales around 1.88, oats 0.69 to 0.75, December coffee at 18.65.
The Portuguese pioneered inland slave hunting in Africa for colonial labor. The first African slaves reached the New World in 1505 when Portugal landed a group in Santo Domingo. From then until the 19th century, Atlantic slave trading continued.
A humorous exchange from Yonkers Star where Mr Styles asks if her wind has changed and Mrs Styles replies she "heave" while changing her crest. He quips about the duration, noting it normally does not take so long.
W S Reister & Sons quote higher market prices for butter eggs poultry and cream. Rail strike disruptions are cited as easing shipping and offering safer delivery. prices listed include butter 9 7e per lb cream 9 5e per lb hens 24c per lb springs 24e per lb old roosters 12c per lb ducks 19e per lb geese 10c per lb turkeys 20c per lb beef hides Nath.ip per lb kip hides Bic per lb calf hides wc per lb horse hides 12.00 each.
Waterloo Iowa hosts the first International Belgian Horse show September 22 to 28. Belgium sends a commission to repurchase stock to rebuild its breed. About 5500 dollars in cash premiums plus offers push totals to nearly 7000. The event, led by Dr. T A McManus Charles Irvine and J W Van Nice, uses three new barns and a 6500 seat pavilion for entries from major breeding establishments in the United States and Canada.
A boy named Roland offers his pencil eraser to his cousin Hazel and asks if she knows how to write. He then mulls that she might not need an eraser for mistakes and quips do you know how to write wrong.
J F Deems at the Iowa State Fair Farm Bureau Day urges education organization and fertilization as the threefold path for farmers. He argues work is central to education and warns against mere rhetoric while stressing cooperation, efficiency, and preparedness to feed a growing nation.
An artesian well on Otto Ziesman’s farm west of Eldora ten miles broke through after dry-order restrictions. Bowman, drilling a four inch well, faced blasts of water and flying stones as the flow surged. Initial output was about 500 gallons per minute, now reduced to roughly one and a quarter inches, securing ample water for the farm.
In Dubuque Aug 28 the attorney general's ruling that making and selling sacramental wines is illegal sparks protests from northeast Iowa clergy and lawyers who cite Iowa code exemptions for churches. Havner did not authorize sacramental wine permits and the issue will be taken up with him.
Hancock county farms sold rapidly as the North Iowa Pike drive boosted values. Six tracts totaling 1000 acres fetched 187380 dollars, averaging 187.38 per acre, with buyers from Corwith, Garner, Fort Dodge, Titonka and Mason City. Last bids topped 233 per acre on the Bowers quarter.
Mrs. T. J. Hallinger of Mansfield Ohio was ill three months with stomach trouble and constipation. She used Chamberlain's Tablets after seeing an advertisement and states the first dose increased her appetite and two bottles cured her completely. Lemmon's Drug Store. acdat
Locusts are roasted or fried to butter in many countries and preserved in brine or sun dried. They appear in markets of Arabia, Syria, Egypt and Madagascar and are exported as commerce. They are candied and eaten as a delicacy in China.
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