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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1918
Page
2
Chicago markets opened steady to lower with hogs weak to 10 cents down on light and packing grades. Hog receipts today about 31 000 with 53 168 carryover. top hogs 17 75, typical 14 00 to 16 10. Cattle receipts about 5 000 with mixed demand. fat cattle up to 25 cents higher, calves steady. Sheep seen firmer, feeders firm. receipts about 2 000 with prices up to 3 higher.
Grain futures wrap up with market activity noted by ER Wagner & Co of Iowa City led by manager J B Hunt. Phone connections listed as 726 for brokerage inquiries and futures updates.
Nine hundred sixty six victims of the anti Jewish outbreak in Lemberg Galicia have been buried according to Nowy Daziennik Cracow as quoted by the Jewish press bureau here Many bodies remain in the ruins of burned dwellings and further details are noted.
An express train collided with a materials train near Neung sur Loirs eleven miles southwest of Orleans. Twelve bodies were recovered and identified, with many more still in the wreckage. About 25 people were injured.
A Cincinnati Enquirer observation notes that the ideal spouse is forever paired with someone else’s partner. The quip frames marital expectations as cyclical, with marriages often found in ironic arrangements.
Live poultry and eggs are offered with delivery and weekly egg cream orders in winter months. We pay higher for certain poultry types and encourage customers to share satisfaction or complaints with neighbors.
Dates listed for closing out sales at Hindall Rubio and Vondrasek Washington area, plus a Morgan Schmitter Horning sale near Rubio. The piece reviews the International Livestock Show highlighting Hereford stock and the contrast between scrubs and top breeders, noting breeders’ strategies and the impact on breed standards. The author cautions against pedigreed animals used to misrepresent quality at high-profile sales.
Short notices from Washington County detail personal arrivals departures births and deaths. Readers learn about people moving changing jobs and life events in a compact round up from local columns.
Dee Brighton reports that G Neal Whistler has been honorably discharged from the artillery officers training camp at Camp Taylor Kentucky and returned home Wednesday evening. Mrs Hamonson and son Robert are at the Edmondson home in Columbus Junction awaiting her husband’s return from Camp Pike.
Mrs. Lulu Gallagher is improving after illness. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Faulkner visited Tom Harvey’s home. Neighborhood attendees at a Tuesday sale. W. Augustine sold hogs to Washington buyers. A Koch on the wick list. John May rents the Fleming farm for next year. Ausutine plans a move to a Titus area farm. Noy Koch called in Washington. Rene Warner visited Washington in the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ely Jackson and children visited in town Putman's on Sunday. Nay Smith and Henry Witting returned Tuesday from Chicago where they attended the stock show. Art Long sawed for John Reeves, fate Ferguron, Ken Miller and John Caldwell this week. John Caldwell and family suffer from influenza. CL Netawunger of Srosameres spent Wednesday at the Frank Tahone homestead. Henry trig shipped at Saturday of last week.
Mr Wolfe attended the International, focusing on Shorthorns, with Harry Whittaker also there but not seen until return. Buyers of the grand champion steer offered to send it to Europe to supply beef for the peace conference during the session. The event described as history making and a unique use of the best fat steer in the United States.
Fiwin McGinnis arrived home Monday from Camp Pike. Sam McFarland of Washington sawed wood for Will Gurton. Lloyd Easter did some painting for Roll Gam on Friday.
Cedar Falls authorities report zero influenza cases at Iowa State Teachers College under President Seerley. He notes national and Iowa flu waves affect attendance, but Cedar Falls enrollment remains strong due to strict quarantine measures that closed schools churches theaters and meeting halls for three weeks.
The city claims success in stamping out the disease through a strict ordinance requiring physicians to file daily flu case reports and the placarding of residences where victims were housed.
Clarion Ta December 7 The lid is placed on Clarion again as influenza spreads. The Clarion school closed Tuesday after over thirty cases and one death. New cases rise rapidly town wide with several additional deaths reported since Saturday closure.
London December Balfour British foreign minister told American reporters the United States will share postwar world security duties and that inter Allied talks before the peace conference will be longer and more important than the final meeting He stressed the main aim as creating a league of nations to safeguard broad international justice.
A concise meditative note quoting Thomas a Kempis on pride as a stumbling block. It urges humility to avoid downfall and folly, presenting pride as a danger that leads to error and blindness.
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