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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1919
Page
2
Estimated today hog receipts total about 1,000 with market active and top bids around 13.75. Cattle receipts near 13,000 with strong beef steer prices to 20.00 and varied ranges for other classes. Official Wednesday totals report hogs 20,290, cattle 3,920, sheep 9,815, calves 1,023 with shipments listed.
Dorpat December 26 official word that Esthonian and bol shevik delegates have agreed on frontiers and military guarantees and may sign a preliminary armistice. Some say bolsheviks may concede Narva front need not be surrendered by the Esthonian army.
Reported in Chicago the drive against graft in liquor revenue is said to begin with officials and collectors shaping a wartime prohibition policy. Officials claim abuses by deputies and revenue men, while merchants fear tightened controls and illegal alcohol purchases during the unsettled period.
A column of telegraph poles near Mig nonballa in Laredo Texas was destroyed by crews under command of Hipulit Wits per dispatches from Verro n and Mesivo. Marl be was in the reewut Villinta fold il, where the depot paid.
Journal lists numerous farm department sale dates and locations from Dec through Feb across Washington and surrounding towns. Entries name buyers sellers and sale types including Duroc Hog Sale Dairy cow sale and Public Sale with fields noting towns like Washington Ainsworth Columbus Junction Wellman and Havre.
A 1900 Chevrolet Review item notes that early automobilists argued a car could not run away like a horse, but actual experiences prove otherwise with frequent reports of automobile runaways in daily press.
General Tasker Bliss returns from Paris urging Europe to pool food supplies and create a distribution directorate led by a figure like Herbert Hoover. He argues Germany should join the economic coalition, Russia only if the regime cooperates, and warns famine is not inevitable if distribution improves.
St Paul Minn Dec 25 Rev John Wright rector emeritus of St Pauls Episcopal church died here He was eighty three years of age and regarded as an international authority on Egyptology in the field of archaeology and religious studies
A schoolteacher at Wild Onion delivered a patriotic lecture to a large audience, praising the United States for its work ethic and comparing it with other nations. He stated that Americans lead by rising early and starting work each morning whereas people elsewhere go to bed.
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