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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1921
Page
2
Estimated receipts today 22 000 hogs with holdover 967 and cattle 24 000. Market mostly 10 to 15 lower with ranges for heavy medium and light weights and beef cattle to 10 1 2.00 per cwt. Lambs 25 to 50 lower with mixed slaughter and feeder classes. Official yesterday show hogs 31324 cattle 14930 sheep 40487 calves 1971. FE. W. WAGNER & CO Iowa City Iowa.
Sale dates listed include September 17 for W R Gamon Poland China stock and October 5 for E J Paul Washington Spotted Poland China. Local buyers urged to note schedule and consignments.
A group of American farmers, led by J. B. Schoenfelt, arrives in Lima en route to a Peru colonization project in the Pampa del Sacramento valley near the Amazon headwaters. The venture plans to settle about 1,000 colonists, with initial 200 in the concession and the rest to follow via Brazil and rivers. The tract covers 650,000 acres granted by Peru last October to Schoenfelt for agricultural and forestry use.
Baltimore press reports a new dense white smoke screen demonstrated for ROTC at Camp Meade. Major Atkinson said it surpasses black smoke in obscuring power and quantity, is non toxic, and can shield advancing troops though details of the candle substance remain secret.
A New York congressman proposes a federal liquor amendment to set maximum bootleg prices. The plan targets whiskey at seven dollars per quart and rye four to five dollars per quart with beer and light wines at old prices plus ten percent. Penalties include up to ten years in prison and fines up to ten thousand dollars per offense. The aim is to ease convictions against bootleggers.
Secretary of Labor Davis urged trust and mutual aid among business leaders in Wellesley Massachusetts saying current conditions require cooperation. He warned that distrust deepens suspense and stressed the need to not only trust but also help one another in tough times.
A global drought described as a four season siege by the sun stretches from Arctic Bhakimos baths to Amazonian runways, drying Alpine snowfields and Swiss valleys, shrinking Seine fish, blistering France and Italy, spurring heat in London and Budapest, and threatening harvests in Brazil Argentina and Russia with withered crops and scarce winter provisions.
In Baltimore Sun style Dr John Hogan promotes a pollen selecting system to treat hay fever. He explains four hundred pollen types cause symptoms and tests involve injections of ragweed rose and goldenrod extracts to identify the effective one. The method urges a trial of all pollens to find the remedy.
Thirteen percent of last year's hay remains with growers as the new crop falls about eleven million tons short. Officials warn the crop will run two thirds below normal while prices drop 20 to 40 percent. Freight charges for moving hay reach two to three times the hay price.
Cedar Rapids Iowa August 30 A Modern Brigham Young spent the day here yesterday the guest of the police Farl Hintz is his name He is 34 years old and he told the police he is the husband of six wives and father of numerous children His home is at Salt Lake and he is being taken back there from New York on a charge of wire desertion The Salt Lake police have been looking for him for four years.
In Des Moines on August 29 the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that religious services in churches may be conducted in any language. The decision cites the state constitution prohibiting establishment and protecting free worship, stating parents and instructors may choose worship language in private or parochial settings.
J H Wallis of Dubuque representative of the American Relief administration returns from five months in Europe praising American feeding for preserving democracy and preventing Bolshevism. He cites Hoover relief as stabilizing new democracies, notes Europe is recovering with improving conditions and restored order, despite several disputes and continued economic adjustments.
May Allison, a Metro star, headlines Big Game at the Fox theater on Thursday. The photodrama adapts the New York stage success about a man who must prove he is not a coward to save his wife Eleanor Winthrop from Henri Baptiste in the Canadian woods.
Sir Sam Hughes former Canadian minister of munitions and wartime leader died at his home in Lindsay Ontario after a long battle with pernicious anaemia. The veteran military advocate and editor Garnet B. Hughes son survived him. He had served as minister with rank of major general and helped mobilize Canada’s war effort before resigning at Prime Minister Borden’s request.
Gen Tayne, 70, died in Muscatine Iowa after being gored by a bull a week earlier. He suffered extensive wounds and could not recover. His wife survives. A separate note mentions Leeds using sewage to make ammonia.
A terse price list shows fresh laid eggs at two cents each dozen, cream at eighty cents per pound, springs price not clear, Bioks per unit, geese and turkeys priced per pound, old roosters and old toms listed with per pound rates. The OCR verifies poultry and dairy items with unit prices, reflecting a late period market listing.
New York Aug 30 Dr Raymond L Ditmars, supporter of Darwin and the Bronx Zoo, claims humans spoon like monkeys and inherited molding from simian ancestors. He plans 20000 feet of film showing monkey emotions from proposal onward to prove his theory.
Mrs Thomas L Christy of Columbus Ohio reports severe monthly pains and weakness before and after childbirth. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief and says she regained strength to do housework while caring for two children. She endorses Pinkham products and invites others to write for guidance.
Des Moines reports that dairy products from Iowa total 120 286 488 51 for the past year. Creamery butter ice cream market milk cheese farm dairy butter condensed milk skim and buttermilk add to a total value of 160 million with fertilizer credits. The Dairy Cattle congress notes rising farmer interest and calls the dairy cow the most efficient food producer. The twelfth annual exposition runs Sept 26 to Oct 2 at Waterloo with strong exhibitor and spectator attendance expected.
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