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 26 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1922
Page
2
Estimated receipts today hogs 20000 holdover 12781 cattle 8009 sheep 12000. Markets slow and mostly lower with prices 10 to 60 cents down. Beel and slaughter steers fair to prime 7.40 to 9.85. cows 2.49 to 6.35. calves and feeders listed with varied weights and price ranges. Official yesterday shows cattle 27708, sheep 10497, calves 19765, shipments 7523, etc.
Readable listings show multiple public and livestock sales across Iowa towns including West Chester Columbus Junction Wellman and Washington. Registered Percheron horses and live stock are sold by Nevins Craig McCoy Adkins Helmick Gernic Lantz Sojka with dates Feb 23 Feb 24 Feb 25 and Feb 28.
Mr and Mrs Alex McCreedy hosted two Thursday and Friday evening gatherings in honor of their son and bride Mr and Mrs H Duane McCreedy recently married in California. Guests enjoyed a hot chicken supper and an oyster supper with about forty to forty five attendees. The couple received many valuable presents.
A philosophical quotation from Georg Francis Train describing how society pushes a person according to his direction in life. It contrasts upward ascent with downward descent and notes gravity accelerates on the decline.
The city of Chattanooga was once called Ross Landing before its 1851 renaming. The Cherokee word Teatanugi, meaning unknown, is noted by the Bureau of American Ethnology in their Hand Book of American Indians.
A timeless adage notes that difficulties test character and reveal what men are when obstacles are overcome, suggesting resilience and grit lead to meaningful accomplishments.
Two Black men were arrested in connection with the killings of W. H. Barker his wife and Homer Turk at their Concord home near Waco Texas. They were spirited from the city jail and believed to be in Dallas for safekeeping. Robbery is the presumed motive.
Washington February 22 unless intervening events occur President Harding will speak to a joint session of Congress within a few days to present his remuneration proposal aimed at rehabilitating the merchant marine. The report places emphasis on the imminent address and the scope of the proposed plan.
Washington February 22 The senate agriculture committee unanimously approved an immediate appropriation of 85 million dollars to buy seed grain for relief among farmers in crop failure areas.
Two sacks of registered mail from Detroit were stolen from the Rochester Michigan depot. Sheriff James Butler and about six deputies are on the trail of the robbers.
The Iowa Press Association and Iowa Bankers Association join a state wide Eat More Corn campaign. Hotels and restaurants display corn dishes, promoting patriotic eating to aid corn producers. The piece credits Iowa corn and cooks for the positive impact and urges continued public support.
A new safety gate for railroad crossings is described as flexible and elastic, bending instead of breaking when struck. It stretches across the road like a traditional gate and redirects vehicles backward away from danger.
Farmers and county assessors in Sydney Iowa adopted a set of assessable values for the coming year including horses cattle and hogs figures and a schedule. A Farm Bureau committee of Wm Elliott S J Wright and KF J Hinkley oversaw the process. New Hampton officers were elected Clyde Heald president John Agrum vice president J F Brabcock secretary and C H Kenyon treasurer with one township director named per county.
Greenfield will host a county farm bureau study on Adair County taxes. A committee consisting of Wm Spellman D B Sawyer and Bilston Rigg will thoroughly examine the situation and report to farm bureau officials at an upcoming meeting. Sabula farmers form plan for a Farmers Co operative Shipping Association to be established soon. Maquoketa reports high laying stock as Frank Ripperton’s 90 pullets produce daily eggs. the birds’ lineage includes a grandmother with 292 eggs in one year as the search continues for a cock crowing 300 eggs.
Farm accounting schools are scheduled for Fremont county February 16 17 with backing from the farm bureau and an Ames specialist to lead. The sessions will cover farm records and assist attendees in starting a record for 1922. About thirty men are expected at Farragut and Randolph. Whereas Eldora reports butcher demonstrations detailing profitable home meat cutting from a 225 pound hog at six cents versus $13.50 market price and the value of successive cuts.
Vague readable OCR fragment presents isolated words and letter clusters without identifiable people places dates or actions. No coherent event or notice can be derived from the fragment.
Dual demonstrations on the D. K. Miller farm near Valley Junction covered orchard pruning and poultry raising with specialists from Iowa State College.
Poultry record farms have been set up on J Steddon Granger J W Pearson Mitchellville John Friffieon Mitchelville M J Craig Bondurant to secure accurate records and costs and to develop purebred flocks for home breeding stock. The farm bureau with the Iowa State College extension service backs the work as in many Iowa counties.
W C Heineman Benton county farmer won a $5000 verdict in district court against A C Young Excelsior Springs Mo and L B Hite of this city over misrepresentations in selling him an oil lease in Marion county Kansas The case links to five other suits set for hearing locally
The custom places a candle for each year on a birthday cake with a central light called Lebensicht, the light of life. Only the celebrant may extinguish it, else misfortune. Each light symbolizes life and its years, with one candle required for the elderly to avoid too many lights.
Sea water contains about a half ounce of salt per pint and seas hold enough salt to cover the globe to a depth of 60 feet. Scandinavians and northern Silesians are noted as the greatest salt consumers worldwide.
Dr. K W Stouder of Iowa State College warns hog farmers at a farm bureau meeting that pneumonia and cholera are major killers. He urges better ventilation to prevent damp, drafty houses and notes hogs emit vast moisture at night. He also cautions on proper serum timing to combat cholera and gives a home remedy for hoarseness.
A speaker named Uncle Eben praises the Bible as steady reading after perusing two or more novels. He claims this choice offers considerable benefit and expresses gratitude for the Bible as a reliable source of regular reading material.
February lesson explores divine protection around Elisha amid Syrian plots. The account covers Ben Hadad’s attempts to trap Elisha, the servant’s fear contrasted with Elisha’s faith, the opened eyes to see heavenly hosts, and the eventual mercy shown to the captives prompting peace between Israel and Syria.
A pious fragment from St. Clement of Alexandria urges vigilance in prayer. It exhorts keeping the Watchman dwelling in the word and not sleeping through the night while giving thanks to God.
A religious exhortation cites 1 Timothy 4 8 declaring bodily exercise profitless compared with godliness which offers promise for this life and the life to come, urging readers to spiritual discipline over physical fuss.
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.