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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1919
Page
2
Hogs in Chicago trade ranged with top around 14.50 and most sales 14.20 to 14.45. cattle featured beef steers at up to 20.00 and butcher grades mixed. sheep and lambs quoted from 11.75 to 18.40 with official yesterday totals: hogs 58,963 receipts, cattle 15,588, sheep 23,852, calves 4,103.
A long list of public sales and finishing-out auctions in several towns across Washington County and nearby locales. Names include J. M. Brockway Co Thos Thompson J. D. Patterson Bert Booth E L Stover J H Krause C T Olson Mrs Blecha Son Art Long John Wagner Roy Wagner J E Wright J G Love Joe McGraw Chris Horning Mike Trier Ernest Carlson Howard Ayers Gee Wiegman Wallace Savage W H Snyder Shalla Cannon J K Helmick Son F M Forner Otto Hanlon Wm Todd Mart Crandall J M Lord Son M Stewart E J Paul Davis Roberts J A Koehler Robert Shaffer L C Woodburn Geo F Foster Franz Landau J H Genkinger Glenn G Hayes W H Hunt Son Ainsworth Debord Hodges W Burton Chas Hoxworth Chas Scranton R H Fetters Jake Ramsey Jackson Rathmel John May Lewis Duke Matt Essley I K Beal and others list numerous public and closing-out sales with animals including Duroc and Hampshire hogs and Poland China stock.
The article explains why trees like Jonathan and Northern Spy may delay or avoid fruiting. It cites bloom without fruit, spray injury, lack of vigor, and bad weather or high winds as factors that disrupt pollination. It also briefly notes conditions in poultry farming related to plumage and molting.
The guide contrasts healthy hens with shirker hens, detailing plumage, combs, beaks, ear lobes, shanks, and pelvic bone spacing. It explains how to hold a hen to assess skin quality, flesh, and bone distances to judge conformation and production ability.
Emilio Castelar praises the Sistine Chapel figures as more than decor, calling them men who endured sorrow and doubt, whose foreheads bear furrows of disbelief and whose hearts feel the cold of disenchantment, united in mortal experience.
In 1660, Milton in prison is visited by Charles II who condemns him for treason and blindness. Milton retorts that God favors him more than Charles’s father, noting that while blindness was given to Milton, Charles’s father had his head cut off.
A historic smuggling strike on the German Polish border saw women crossing daily in ragged clothes to reach Germany and return in stylish outfits. They earned less than 50 cents a day from the organization but demanded higher wages and won.
The text explains how fog alters perception by making distant objects appear larger and closer or farther than they are, causing a person in fog to seem unusually big. It notes the eye discerns distance through cues altered by fog.
A Boston Herald note muses that typography elevates workers by giving dignity to their labor and framing their efforts as worthy of greater recognition.
The readable text is garbled with nonstandard characters and no verifiable events or named entities. No identifiable persons, organizations, places, dates, or outcomes are present to summarize into a valid newspaper item.
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