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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1921
Page
2
Chicago market notes receipts for hogs 48 000 cattle and sheep 21 000 estimated for tomorrow with beef and dairy cattle prices. Prices shown for heavy to light weights and packing sows with steady to slightly lower trend and bids for lambs and feeder stock amid active wholesale and cash demand.
Public sale notices list events from Dec 20 to Feb 2 across multiple Iowa and nearby counties. Sellers include J M Wolfe, Clegg Bros, Evergreen Farm, Mrs Ed Boshart, Frank Dutler, Vel Redlinger, Stephenson and Shaner, Alliman Bros, and Hunter & Hunter with various livestock, sow, and bred stock offerings near Columbus Jet Wayland Washington and Winfield.
Fred Swartzen and Ella Augesberg wed at Rev Gingerich home on Dec 15. Mrs Leeper visiting Edwin Leeper family and relatives in Hillsboro Bentensport Mt Pleasant. Miss Witting home from Grinnell on professional work. Salina Swartzendruber returns to Mennonite mission work in Kansas City after rest. Otto Frey bought a Victrola from McNamara. Mrs Mitchell shopping in Burlington. Hamstine on wick list. White Gift program at Eicher church Dec 20 sent to Halstead mission. Mrs Mast Mitchell Key Witting and Shockley shopping in Was. Jo Wallace county school superintendent visits.
Fragmentary lines suggest a local ad or notice mentioning Brown as a tire service and a separate note about food and an elastic web at The New York Store. The readable text presents no clear event or structured news item.
The Methodist choir with 48 additional voices staged Handel's Messiah to a packed congregation. Soloists J L Fifer Alma Huppert Gladys Williams and others impressed with refined preparation. The performance emphasized reverence and the timeless Christmas story, marking the first full local presentation.
Ames December 19 The Iowa State College exhibit collected 139 ribbons and 24941 dollars in cash at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago far exceeding all others. Tamboo H steers and other stock earned top awards including a new official dressing percentage record. Fat stock sales totaled 4101.12 dollars across 14 steers 39 hogs and 14 sheep. The Bob Evans Duroc Jersey trophy and a silver cup were captured by ISU.
The piece explains that water transport scales with the sixth power of velocity. Doubling water speed increases transport power sixty fourfold, clarifying how a river in flood carries everything before it.
Fire of unknown origin broke out shortly after midnight on the farm of Wm. J. Neimeyer five miles northwest of West Point. Twenty nine head of purebred White Faced cattle perished in the barn fire. One bull rescued but likely to die. Fourteen heifers escaped before the blaze destroyed the barn which was insured.
Columbus safeguard HH Wea ver of Wapello was elected president of the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago in the recent annual election. He also serves as president of the American Short Horn Breeders Association.
Harry Hamilton the bank bandit who was wounded when Roy Purple was killed in the Stockmen's Savings bank hold up at Long Grove died in a Davenport hospital. He made a sensational statement implicating two recognized citizens, but sheriffs and the county attorney discredit it and will not publicize details of the robbery.
Hamilton served as a Davenport police officer in the past and later edited the Rock Island News, a weekly publication.
D F Macon of Washington Iowa handles local auctions with contact at phone 261 Red. Details read as a fragment indicating an auctioneer service in the area.
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