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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1922
Page
2
Live hog prices rise 25 to 40 cents with demand steady to higher as receipts reach 25 000 head. Beef steers and vealers show strong price ranges with mixed loads and varying weights, while lambs and ewes report firm to higher quotes. Cattle, calves, and feeder stocks move on 12 000 head receipts amid active trading and broad price bands.
A courier narrates a night ride mishap in a French highway scene. He recalls trying to slip between two motorcycles only to realize they were a truck. The exchange reveals a near collision and the blunt judgment of the Cap'n.
The Washington Iowa column promotes spring readiness with a broad stock of machinery and repairs. It notes extended credit options on stock on hand and urges customers to visit often for quick service. Local notices include purchases and deliveries, belt and tool orders, and farm equipment activity across area farms.
J R Howard president of the American Farm Bureau urges North Dakota farmers to back farmer owned cooperative marketing and economic action over politics. He stresses cooperation, reduction of freight costs, and unity among agricultural groups to influence Washington and secure justice for agriculture.
Snappy quips and humorous exchanges appear in this collage of jokes and brief lines. It cites notes from the Kansas City Journal and London humor pages about nuptial fears, debts, schoolmasters, and marriage musings.
A sequence of sale notices lists dates and locations for closing out and breeding sow sales around Washington, Havre, West Chester, Winfield, Arlington, and nearby townships. Entries include breeders and sellers such as Redlinger, Burger, Churchill, Johnson, Stephenson and Shaner, Thompson and Lang, Millikan, Carlson, Trier, Shafer, Alliman Bros, Paul, Hunter, Booth, and others with farm references and distances from Washington and surrounding towns.
A Boston Transcript snippet shows a millionaire asking about his son’s classical education. The private tutor replies the student may be “stranded” on the classics, implying gaps or overreliance in study.
In Pearson's Weekly a brief humorous exchange unfolds between a mother and her son. The mother questions a finger injury while the boy calmly explains it happened long ago with a hammer and that he did not cry because she was not present.
Tuskegee Institute data compiled by Monroe N. Work reports 63 lynchings in 1921 with 62 in the South and 1 in the North, 59 Negro victims and 4 whites. Sixty percent involved rape charges. four victims were burned, some after death. States listed include Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia with notable mob violence patterns.
George A. Wells, secretary of the Western Grain Dealers Association, warns that corn-burning propaganda in Pocahontas and nearby counties is already damaging prices. He notes buyers from northern Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri balk at Iowa elevator quotes, predicting lower earnings if acreage is shifted to oats. Wells urges keeping such stunts under cover and cautions that a big oats crop would depress prices for both grains next season. Mrs. Ed Flander visits Keota for a stay with the Flanders.
The Fairfield gathering drew a large crowd for the Cabeooreadbee of 00ry members and five candidates. Two prominent Washington figures were arrested on auto theft charges, a mystery to many, while some brothers posted bond for imminent court appearances. The day otherwise featured a gala atmosphere as Canion members showcased their camaraderie and sought to establish a lodge in Washington.
A Humorous note from the Karneas City Star suggesting a machine that would reveal the brakeman’s announced next station, in contrast to a device telling speed after a small coin is deposited. The idea plays on railway trivia and passenger curiosity.
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