This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 22 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1918
Page
2
Chicago and Chicago markets report estimated receipts for hogs cattle and sheep. Hogs open steady to higher with top 17.65 and various weight ranges. cattle and calves show mixed changes with steers lower and prime cows steady. lambs yearlings and ewes show declines with feeding lambs steady.
Grain futures close reported by E. W. Wagner & Co of Iowa City with J. B. Hunt listed as manager. Phone 726 provides contact for market figures and brokerage updates.
A London Mail letter recalls a resident engineer who ordered large linen tracings from draftsmen. The writer says his wife used the oversized tracings to make shirts for her boys, revealing a cost-saving trick at the office.
An aviation teacher warns that the nose dive is a dangerous maneuver not only in flight but also in julepation. The phrase describes a risky peril that can exhilarate yet leaves the nose resembling a premium strawberry, per the Houston Post.
Local buyers W S Reister & Sons list current rates for fresh eggs at 53 cents a dozen, fat cream butter at 66 cents per pound, rabbits at 12 1/2 cents each, half grown rabbits at 7 cents each, and various poultry and waterfowl prices per pound or each. The garbled OCR shows additional items and unit notes.
The Journal lists December 23 to February 10 farm sales near Richmond Washington Ainsworth Kalona Riverside and Columbus Junction with Durocs Dur oes Hampshires and Spotted Poland Chinas and noted buyers. It also reports Rice popcorn yield at Rolfe and the Winfield Poultry Show success with 31 exhibitors and 250 birds.
The Hampshires from Gus Meyers of Elwood Indiana captured the grand championship at the International, defeating all breeds. Eleven month old hogs weighing about 460 pounds each, 50 head total, shipped to Chicago as the finest load of hogs. Glenn Hayes praised their uniformity and condition, noting a sale price of 21 cents and a substantial bonus to Meyers plus advertising value.
Ernest Carlson and Glenn Hayes rent the Motor Inn on West Madison Street for January sales as the Star Livery Barn shifts from pavilion use to a garage. The building offers a cement floor and heating, promising comfortable quarters for crowds. Farmers report unusual stock grazing in winter while butter production in Iowa drops by about eleven million pounds from last year. Burlington plans a large Farm and Poultry Show to boost egg and meat production, and Hamilton County aims to grow its farm bureau membership toward 1,000 as cooperation between farm and town interests strengthens. Fourteen carloads of stock were shipped from Wellman Monday with multiple firms listing hogs and sheep loads.
The article notes Twinam of Crawford township feeding silage from 1916 with cattle accepting it as well as new. It recounts DD H Miller’s farm sale where stock and machinery were part of the deal both times, highlights a 14 year farm value rise from 31700 to 85000, and mentions a closing out sale next week not including farm equipment.
Iowa winter wheat is widely promising with 750000 acres planted up from 375000 last year. The December 1 condition stood at 99 percent, and rye acreage rose four percent with 100 percent condition. Plowing 95 percent finished, corn in crib 98 percent at 36 bushels per acre from 10,454,000 acres yielding 375,624,000 bushels. spring wheat 8.6 bushels per acre. oats 52 bushels per acre totaling 799,579,000 bushels.
Esther Angeline Cunningham Maxwell died at age 88 in Crawfordsville after a long illness. Born in Blunt county Tennessee on August 29 1830 she moved to Iowa in 1842 married James H Maxwell in 1857 and had seven children. Her funeral was private at her home led by Rev P H Hayley. Her survivors include three sons John Frank Ed Maxwell and daughter Mrs M C DeLong.
Eureka December 20 Wm Salterberg and son Karl are ill with influenza year his doctor Wickham attends them. Harry Hesseltine conducted a successful sale with corn at 1 45 per bushel and total receipts near 3000 dollars. Miss Mona Lemley visiting the Lester Beenblossom home. D Glenn Beenblossom back from Mt Vernon after receiving honorable discharge from army. W L Bible to hold closing out sale January 16 moving to Washington after selling his farm last fall.
Paris dispatch cites von Hindenburg telegraphing Berlin to form a new front beyond the armistice neutral zone. Berlin asks for explanation as two active army regiments may move to Frankfurt. Reports name Scheueh, Lequid, and von Hindenburg as behind a counter revolutionary movement.
Mrs. Macpherson receives a telegram from Birmingham praising the invention's reach. She notes the message traveled 120 miles and the envelope gum is not yet dry, celebrating rapid communication.
Sir William Robertson noted that British forces in France used 50,000 tons of stone in five weeks for road building, reflecting ongoing Roman road construction tradition and modern Allied engineering.
Secretary of War Newton Baker commends the Boy Scouts of America for reporting 20 758 660 board feet of black walnut and 5 200 carloads as well as carbon material for gas masks. With hostilities ended the two campaigns are discontinued and walnut may return to normal commerce.
The reader is urged to take time to consider and is confident the decision will be in favor of the Prest-O-Lite battery and acted upon in due course.
When you place an order for a battery you receive the assurance of a company with years in the electrical business. Each battery carries the full integrity of the manufacturer and the firm backs every claim with ready service and goodwill.
Corporal Everette M. Griffith writes that the 165th Infantry of the Rainbow division endured days of mud and constant movement chasing German forces from November 2. They finally paused in a French town on November 11 after learning a thirty two day armistice was signed, marking a rare rest and celebrations with Dutch fare and lights in the absence of danger.
Tuesday, Dec. 24. Goods include bay driving horse 1100 pounds broke to harness, good saddle horse, Swiss Jersey 2 year old heifer milking, medium top buggy, incubator 150 egg size, Sure Hatching, two bedsteads with springs, six dining chairs, a medium refrigerator, barrel churn, chicken coops with wire, hog crates, rain barrel, cream separators Sharpless and Anchorholt, caloric cooker, five bushels potatoes, fruit jars, and many other articles.
A wealthy figure boasts of making wealth by turning others’ efforts to advantage. He claims success came not from sunshine alone but from seizing opportunities that grew from others’ work and positions. The remark implies opportunistic methods and entrepreneurial vigor.
Quote reflects on errors as teachers and the value of mistakes in learning. It emphasizes that instruction cannot prevent all waste of time or errors, yet errors often yield the strongest lessons. An aphoristic reflection attributed to J A Froude.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.