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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1923
Page
2
Estimated receipts for hogs 51 908 with holdovers 3 899. Cattle receipts about 61 000 with strong to 25 cents higher market. Sheep receipts around 10 000 with fat lambs steady to lighter. Beef prices ranges for various weight classes and carcass types listed. Shipments show totals for cattle calves and hogs with day and shipment figures.
The Gra ham report notes Indians in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta harvested 886612 bushels of grain a mix of wheat oats and 806000 bushels of potatoes and 55000 tons of hay. They own 8000 horses 18000 cattle and lease 200000 acres for grazing. Weather conditions expected to yield a record crop next year.
Local business notice for W. S. Reister and Sons offering contact at phone 116. The fragmentary ad includes unclear Latin letters and warrants verification for full details.
The Iowa Bulletin says the League of Women Voters national convention will open April 9 in Des Moines. Mrs Maud Wood Park will preside and Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt may not attend. The event will be a work convention with regional divisions and seven priority areas.
A sequence of farm and livestock sale notices dated Jan. 6 through Feb. 27 lists buyers and locations including Washington, Crawfordsville, Ainsworth, and Keota. Items include purebred, Poland China, Short horn cattle, and dispersion sales with dates and venues such as East End Garage, Route 4, and Pacific sale at Ainsworth. READ THE JOURNAL.
A historical price list from R L Gibson shows paying rates for poultry and produce. Fresh laid eggs 38 cents per dozen. cream butter 45 cents per pound. hens and leghorns priced by weight. turkeys and other fowl priced per pound. beef hides and horse hides also noted.
A Paris dispatch surveys postwar reconstruction in Northern France, noting two thirds of devastated areas restored, highways rebuilt and passable, and 633000 of 4.69 million displaced never returning. It highlights French resilience, pioneering spirit, and long-term challenges ahead across industry, agriculture, and communities.
Cedar county Farm Bureau schedules January events with speakers at Stanwood West Branch Durant and Guthrie Center. Pro grams cover producers contracts farm demonstrations and a Illinois Ames Conference reports. Clayton county hosts a three day institute with Mrs Misworth Richardson as principal speaker and other scholars.
A November report highlights Iowa testers for dairy and poultry as they stress thorough cow stripping to maximize machine milking efficiency and note $22,650 annual gain from losses. Poultry records show White Wyandottes and Buff Orpingtons yielding high eggs and dollars in state flock totals.
Period January 1 to January 6 calls for generally fair skies with rain or snow possible midweek. Temperatures expected near normal or above early in the period, then turning colder later in the week.
Vienna reports that under a new economy plan approved with Learner of Nations support, more than 106000 government employees will be discharged over the next two years. The plan aims to reduce the state payroll to about 50000 workers by its end.
The Clement National bank directors vote to credit one dollar to every baby born in Rutland after December 1 and held for a year. The slogan Catch 'em young guides thrift promotion in Rutland Vermont.
As famine grips Russia in 1922, the American Relief Administration reduces free feeding to the very needy and launches a clothing remittance program guided by Herbert Hoover. Packages costing 20 dollars will provide enough material for two children or an adult, including heavy wool cloth lining flannelette muslin and supplies.
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