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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1921
Page
2
Chicago market note shows estimated hog receipts of 7 000 today with holdover 6.22. Cattle receipts estimated at 1 000 with top hogs trading around 9.80 and bulk sales near 9.15 to 9.69. Heavy packing sows quoted at 8.63 and packing cows at 6.87.
Fragmentary OCR item lists consign to spaces at 87 29 Main Floor Sachang in Chicago with unclear names and numbers. No clear event or outcome present.
Legislators gather in the Capitol for the next session with Monday January 10 set for organizational acts. The house will elect its speaker and the senate its president pro tem with committees formed to speed code revision and bill introduction by February 10. Major Leon W. Dimeworth and Rep Arch McFarlane are noted figures in the Senate and House respectively.
Sixty three assembly members lack legislative experience and more than the usual number of senators are inexperienced. This supports arguments for a special session to revise the code, as new members would gain from the experience of the regular session to aid the revision effort.
Det 30 N E Kendall of Albia to become Iowa governor next month, the state’s 23rd chief executive since 1846. Kendall, born March 17 1868 near Chariton, rose from Albia city attorney to Monroe county attorney, then state legislator and two terms in Congress before retiring for health reasons.
Des Moines mayor seeks removal of Federal Judge Martin J. Wade citing personal bias and prejudice. He filed a petition in federal court asking another district judge hear the gas and street car controversies, claiming Wade showed impatience and anger toward city counsel at a recent hearing.
Reports from Scotland show slow progress on the prohibition measure with local votes tallying 196 for no change 24 for license limitation and 23 for abolition. Pussyfoot Johnson predicts bone dry Britain in ten years amid a Cambridge Union defeat 211 to 203 and toy makers spin the idea into seasonal products.
The bower-bird builds a stick passage adorned with feathers and shells to lure a hesitant mate. When the bridegroom arrives with his chosen female, he invites her to share in the display and bond.
The journal lists numerous farm sales and closing out notices across Washington, Keota, Ainsworth, Columbus Junction, and Crawfordsville with dates from January to February. It also quotes bankers and farmers on credit, rent, and outlook, highlighting resilience in dairying regions and calls for policy to ease agricultural credit.
Farm Life surveys bankers agents and farmers across Iowa Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma finding not panic but a healing reaction to global deflation. Prices are falling but production costs are covered in many cases by hope for higher prices and crops held in hope of price recovery.
Dr. Guilford H. Sumner, secretary of the Iowa state board of health, announces a new vital statistics bill drawn by the U.S. Census Bureau. The measure, approved and backed by health authorities, will be introduced in the General Assembly this winter after Sumner’s recent negotiations in Washington.
John R. Brown of the Webster City Elevator Company paid Bascom Huddleston 7430 dollars for about 6000 bushels of corn delivering in December at 1.30 a bushel. Huddleston used motor trucks to hasten delivery as the local market sits around 53 cents. Brown, a veteran grain buyer, notes it as his largest single corn purchase.
Newton jurists hear damages claim brought by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Walker of Prairie City against Dr. W. B. Chase over strychnine tablets found in the Walker home. Eloise Walker, 17 months, died after ingesting the pills. Plaintiffs seek 20000 dollars. The doctor contends labeling would not have helped a child and that warnings to keep tablets away from the child shift blame to the parents. The trial opened before Judge Charles A. Dewey and attracts Jasper County attention.
Iowa farmers led by the Farm Bureau Federation plan a vigorous push before the thirteenth general assembly to correct perceived legal inequalities. E H Cunningham says city voters must understand farmers’ side, and the effort will extend nationwide. The program includes tariff support for agriculture, longer term farm financing, abolishing one year leases, and aligning tenancy with landowners.
Iowa labor commissioner Ambrose L. Urick warns of the greatest labor shortage the world has known once nations adjust postwar disruption. He says industry will surge to unprecedented scale and that current labor surplus talk ignores the coming demand from economic readjustment.
The text lists sound velocity in various media at 32 F: air about 1,087 feet per second, glass 18,000, steel 16,400, water 4,708. It appears as a fragment referencing how the speed of sound varies with the medium.
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