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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1926
Page
2
Hogs receipts 6 000 buyers bid strong to higher with diverse weights and pork products. Cattle receipts 5 090 fat steers and cows mostly higher to steady with top bulls at 11 75. sheep receipts 6 000 with week totals near 8 000 and fat lambs 15.60 to 16.50.
Washington reports the comptroller of the currency issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of close of business Thursday December 31. This regulatory move releases and tallies bank standings for nationwide review.
San Antonio report notes Texas closed its first postwar year with no lynchings, ending a period three years prior when the state led the nation in mob executions. The absence marks a stark shift from earlier violence.
Rev Daniel Graber and family report arrival in Bombay India and 700 miles inland to assume mission duties after a pleasant voyage. Mrs John Clark’s serious illness is noted as improving only slightly. Grandfather N N Armstrong of Cross Plains Tenn dies at 81 years. Mr and Mrs Menno W Nafziger welcome a baby daughter on Christmas morning.
A dense block lists various local businesses with services and contact numbers. Entries include a wood workshop upholstering shop, a creamery, a dentist, an electric shop, beauty shops, barber shop, and property sale notices in Washington County Iowa.
Mrs Edd Roth learned on Tuesday December 20 of the death of her 13 year old nephew Wilson Klopfenstein of Ohio after heart leakage and pneumonia. Miss Mayme Leichty suffered a severe workplace injury at home in Noble when a gasoline grinder amputated three fingers on her right hand and another finger on the left. she remains hopeful for a full recovery.
Eastbound timetable listings show Golden State Limited trains No 4 and No 3 with their corresponding express and local services, freight trains, and passenger departures. Agents H W Russell and J C McKay are named as station personnel with daily schedules and Sunday exceptions.
Regular meetings scheduled by Washington Lodge 26 and related societies. Listings include dates of meetings on Friday nights for Masons and Eastern Star, plus De Molay and Odd Fellows notes. Names of officers and secretaries provided. visiting members welcome at Damascus Shrine and others.
The piece notes few surviving Persian monuments across Ker manshah Harmeadan Hamadan and Ecbatana. It cites a Darius inscription on a rock, the tomb of Esther and Mordecai at Harmeadan now used as refuse, Avicenna’s home in Hamadan, and a carved stone statue guarding Ecbatana’s entrance, though worn by time and folklore.
The Chicago Journal notes the etymology of observant and observatory tracing to the French observer and Latin observe. It contrasts an observant person with the man in an observatory who studies heavenly phenomena under a clear night sky.
Massachusetts docket 1656 lists Henry Watton fined for saying he would rather hear a dog bark than a sermon by Reverend Cobbell. John Studly fined for stealing his master's ox and selling it back. Robert Edwards fined for wearing excess apparel lace and gold buttons.
A Canadian physics professor claims the world’s population could fit in Lake Ontario with at least 60 square feet per person. Even then the water surface would rise only about half an inch. He supports his figures with calculations.
A mythic note recounts Hermes as patron of cunning theft and perjury. As a newborn god he stole five Apollo oxen, led them backward to mislead tracks, and concealed them. Apollo forgave him and made him a part owner of the herd.
The exchange notes that the United States has twice as many telephones as the rest of the world combined and more automobiles than telephones, calling the country wonderful if questioned.
A list of upcoming sales near Washington includes Anthony Malichky nine miles northeast, Frank Vicha eight and a half miles northeast, Robertson and Snyder eight and a half miles west, Frank McFarland administrator, Geo Duke sixty four and a half percent southwest, Work and O Loughlin two miles west of West Chester, Pure Bred Duroc Broad Low Sale at Washington, Knotek Bros Riverside Iowa, and Chanley Rickey six miles southeast of Wellman with specified dates in January.
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