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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
2
Hogs at Chicago with estimated receipts of 26 000 today and 20 000 yesterday. Top hog price 17.80, most sold 17.35 to 17.75. Beef steers and feeders up about 25 cents, calves 15.75 to 19.75, cows 7.75 to 13.50. Sheep and lambs mixed gains with feeders 10.00 to 15.75, ewes 9.50 to 10.00. Yesterday receipts 34 364. shipments 139.
A grain futures update furnished by FE. W. Wagner & Co. of Iowa City with J. B. Hunt as manager. Contact phone 726 for details.
Malarial fevers are described as the greatest scourge of Venezuela's rural areas. In the state of Carabobo with 198,396 people, 1,484 deaths from malaria were recorded last year.
Commission shippers urge delivery of farm produce as road conditions keep trucks from reaching the country. They offer a premium of one cent per pound for poultry delivered locally and list prices for turkeys geese ducks chickens and cotton tail rabbits with instructions to keep goods clean dry and cool and to deliver fresh roosters eggs and other items.
The column lists farm auctions and dates across Iowa towns including Washington Keota Ainsworth Riverside and Kalona with sales of several breeds and public auctions. It notes that only city limits sales in Washington are paused while country sales continue. J H Baird auction near the city remains unaffected and other courses start December 30 and January 18 with free short courses charging a small incidental fee.
Farm Bureau notes seed corn shortages in fifty Missouri counties for next year. County Home Christmas decorations show Santa and tree as Supt Beatty and wife care for residents. Edward Lukavsky sold a yearling Durham bull to Joe Stransky for his herd. A Tuesday storm ended fall plowing as farmers press on toward Christmas.
Ernest Carlson and Mike Trier plan separate Duroc sales this season with Carlson staging a Premier Chief offering at the Motor Inn in Washington on January 18. The consignments feature sons sired or bred to Premier Chief, praised as a large top boar by Duroc expert F F DeVore. Local breeders expect strong patronage and solid dividends when market time comes.
In Ames on December 26 the agricultural engineering department announced a two weeks series of tractor short courses to help Iowa farmers maximize output while minimizing fuel, repair costs, and delays. Regular college staff will lead instruction covering all tractor parts construction and operation.
Dave Browning harvested more than a ton and a half of next year s alfalfa hay a week before Christmas using a scythe on one and a half acres. The crop, planted last August, grew fast in the warm fall and sold for 50 dollars as a Christmas present. A second alfalfa crop should be ready by next May if warm weather continues.
Atlantic Dec 26 High land price record for this locality marked the sale of a 60 acre farm by Soren Christensen to James McConnell at 425 dollars per acre. The land lies just south of the city within a half mile of paving and across from the country club grounds. Christensen had bought it five years ago for 283 dollars per acre. It is fairly well improved and considered a choice tract.
Sioux City stockyards face a flood of hogs with packing houses needing work through mid next week, prompting firms to seek a temporary embargo on receipts for several days.
Scott county farmers explore Marquis wheat a hybrid from India red wheat and Red Fife cross by Dr. A P Saunders in 1892. It is a hard milling variety yielding about 32 bushels per acre but shows pink scab susceptibility.
Iowa State College extension plans a winter farm and home service day in Washington County with two sessions daily at multiple sites. Specialists from Ames join county agents to address topics from hog house sanitation to acid soils and canning meat, with programs chosen by local farm bureaus.
A meeting at the Ottumwa Commercial club with County Agent C. R. Scott discussed forming a state wide sheep and wool association to stimulate production and improve wool marketing. The group aims for broader outreach, supporting legislation and better wool prices for producers.
Abe Miller of Cuba City Wisconsin persuaded a friend's wife to hand over 350 dollars his friend had saved. He did not explain the scheme and was arrested by Dubuque police after stepping from a train with a Chicago ticket. About 100 dollars remained in the seized roll. He was taken to Galena.
Fragment mentions someone being taken back to Cuba City with unclear context or events. No dates, organizations, or names are readable to expand.
Basil Lynch of Company M, One Hundred Sixty eighth Infantry, arrived home from France minus one eye and with a bullet in his head from combat. He is among four Atlantic area soldiers wounded in action. William Carr, a Washington township farmer, was informed his son George was severely wounded on November 1.
The lute, one of the oldest instruments, with a vibrant tone like the harp, disappears from prominence. Its long tail and many strings made it powerful yet heavy and unwieldy, while modern minstrels favor the mandolin guitar or banjo.
A Paris Medical Journal description proposes diagnosing pler tisy by ear. The examiner blocks one ear and clinks coins on the back to compare sounds through healthy versus affected lung tissue.
An etymology traces Algernon to ala Gernen later linked to a Perere ITs figure named William.Peers and friends shortened it to Wiltem or Gernon meaning Williem with the Whiskers. The name survives in the Northumberland line, notably in Algernon Percy, the tenth duke who died recently.
The piece notes John M. Browning as the maker of the first Browning gun during his teenage years. It clarifies the weapon was not a machine gun and praises Browning as an inventor who superiorly impacted firearms history.
In a playful jab the Seattle Post-Intelligencer half jokes that if the Lay of the Last Hen were announced in modern times a panic would ensue. The item riffs on past fears tied to literary works.
The borzol or Russian wolfhound is noted as the world’s swiftest dog with speeds near 75 feet per second. The gazelle records over 70 feet per second, equating to about 4 500 feet per minute if sustained.
A New York Mail report notes a woman preoccupied with her hat style. She argues the chosen headwear will be valuable, reflecting fashion and status as she plans for an upcoming event.
Astronomers estimate at least one trillion suns in the cosmos with many so distant that their light began long before human history and has not yet reached Earth.
The article summarizes normal heart rates for different ages. Newborns: 120 to 140 bpm. one-year-olds: 115 to 180 bpm. fourteen to sixteen-year-olds: 80 to 20 bpm. adults: 70 to 75 bpm. elderly: 60 to 75 bpm. It cites Woman's World as the source.
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