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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1925
Page
2
CHICAGO on February 13 reports hog receipts at 43 000 with a generally higher market, top hog price 11 20 and bulk weights from 160 to 290 pounds. Cattle receipts 4 000 with steady trade and mixed fat lambs at 17 50 to 18 00. grain prices list cash wheat corn oats rye barley and seeds with varied quotes.
Official estimates from Chicago dated February 13 list tomorrow's hogs at 7,000 head, cattle at 500, and sheep at 4,000, outlining expected market supply levels for the coming day.
The text explains how tides grow as a wave approaches shore and water encroaches inland until the crest arrives at high tide. It also contains unclear fragments about the term Bisel and other stray phrases.
The text argues that true synonyms do not exist though many words are closely related in meaning. It notes people often distinguish subtle shades of sense and usage, leading to imperfect equivalence and biased choice between near equivalents.
A reflection on how savings and wise investments shape a person’s future and the financial status of their family, amid conflicts between self and environment. The piece emphasizes money discipline as a force that validates the human will and empowers decisive economic outcomes.
A terse, garbled mood piece questions power and wit as a man jokes about drawing and a mule blocks his path. The fragment invokes a character named Serene Steve Mill and hints at authority themes without supplying clear events or context.
Reported by hunters in Alaska's Nootak river region, a species they identify as ibex is said to resemble the world ibex but is reportedly a distinct wild mountain animal amid abundant sheep and goats.
Market note lists springs and breeds including ibLeghorn and blacked roosters ducks large breeds geese and swan geese. Mentions reef hides and horse hides with no market for cull and steel crippled poultry.
A jumble of nonsensical lines. The writing includes questions about gray hairs and respect, references to two heads dancing, and disjointed comments on clothing stores sleep and holidays. Irregular rhythm and disconnected ideas create a fragmented, humorous tone without a clear news event.
Sale dates listed for multiple auctions around February with buyers including J. C. Riley near Washington and Mrs. J. W. Kilgore near Ainsworth. Upcoming auctions include R. J. Davis near EF Crawfordsville and R. L. Smylie Pied Bow Sale near Columbus Junction plus a Smylie Farm Sale at Columbus Junction.
The article recalls Fort Howard at Green Bay founded in 1816 under Col John Miller and Capt Lewis Morgan as part of a federal fort network after the War of 1812. It became a social center under Maj Zachary Taylor, hosted notable visitors like Captain Marryat and Prince de Joinville, and faded after frontier pressures and the fur trade waned.
A report notes Irish folk cures where a spider charm is used to ward off fevers and a soaked spider used as a remedy for ague. Labrador Indigenous people reportedly wear a talisman of a hogged dock around the neck to ease toothache, while Bacon cites rings carved from seahorse teeth as charms against cramps.
Decorations awarded the Unknown Soldier include the Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honor from France, a Gold Medal for Bravery from Italy, Virtute Militara from Romania, War Cross from Czechoslovakia, Virtath Militari from Poland, and the Congressional Medal of Honor from the United States.
The Sinai copper and turquoise mines are among the world’s oldest, worked by Egyptians around 3700 BC. Xenophon notes in 355 BC about silver lead mines in Creere.
A 120 acre farm formerly owned by W C Hotle and occupied by W C Robertson will sell at public auction for cash at Livingston and Richer in Washington Iowa February 16 1925 at 10 AM. About 90 acres are tillable with the rest pasture and running water. Improvements are fair and it is near a school. For details call at the farm or the Livingston and Richer office Wayland Jonathan Conrad Wayland Iowa.
An advertisement extols sunny dispositions and links poor liver and stomach health to gloom. Mayr's Wonderful Remedy is recommended for bloating and catarrhal mucus in the intestinal tract, claimed to ease stomach liver and intestinal inflammation and prevent ailments. Available at all druggists.
A reflective sermon links sorrow from broken promises, desertion, and grief to Jesus in Gethsemane Mark 14 32 42. It urges absorbing others grief yet facing pain alone with submission to God's will and finding strength and eventual peace through faith. The piece ends with a quoted poem on the Master’s path through suffering and death.
Anne Carlisle, a clever female artist from the reign of Charles II, earned notice for copies of works by notable station masters and for life portraits. She died around 1680, with contemporary Walpole noting her credit.
A brief column lists local happenings in Indian Creek. Residents attended a surprise party at Henry Livex home. Clara Farrier waited at Farrier brothers’ homes. Archie Farrier stays with Willi Dunbars’ family while roads are bad. Several neighbors assisted with butcher dogs. Blanche Rich and Orval Farrier took 8th grade exams at the Y M C A building. Charlie, Edgar Farrier and Clyde Garrett recover from mumps. Russel Morgan sawed wood for Fred Garrett. Orval Farriers butcher hogs. Farmers Union social postponed. Alice Augustine spent Saturday night with Joe Arnold.
A garbled report describes an elephant story involving Captain Leong in Africa. The herd member wounded dives into a lake fleeing a net, and the elephant tears a tree and uses it to vanish in high jumps.
The Laramie mountains form a range of the Rocky mountains in southeast Wyoming. It starts on the south bank of the North Platte river in Nae troma county and extends southeast across Albany and Laramie counties. The range is a broad upland rising from about 7,000 feet to ,000 feet.
Five hundred acres in southwest Georgia are devoted to the Lord Thetreet. The land grows cotton mostly and faces a threat from the boll weevil. The fields are described as tiller and produce more bells than cotton to neighboring plots. The area is nicknamed the Lords Acres.
A sensational advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets as a powerful flesh producer. It claims a 5 to 10 pound gain in days, offers a money back guarantee, and urges readers to buy via Lemson or druggists nationwide.
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