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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1920
Page
2
Estimated receipts today 62 000 cattle 15 000 hogs 11 000 sheep. Beef steers and cows prices range from 9.00 to 20.00 with various weights and grades. Lambs and feeder categories show ranges up to 17.75 for prime beef steers and 17.00 for feeder lambs. Receipts total 28 354 cattle 9 800, sheep 6 470, calves 2 059. shipments 11 353 cattle 4 966 sheep 290 calves 290.
Furnished by FE W Wagner & Co Iowa City J B Hunt Manager shows corn opening prices with January May July highs lows and closes for listed months. Oats May and July figures recorded along with cash market activity 140 cars for corn and 125 for oats and a March clover price at 33 15.
Florida settlers who hailed from the North cherish the mocking bird as a substitute for northern songsters Their memories of robins sparrows and orioles are replaced by the southern birds musical phrasing and charm, a comfort in their new home.
During the 1809 Drury Lane theater blaze Sheridan the principal shareholder was in the building. He declined offers of shelter and rushed toward the theater only to be pushed back by a soldier who warned him to stand back. He quipped that a friend may warm himself by his own fire.
The report notes the match lacked spectacle with few bright exchanges and calls the play not spectacular. Commentary hints spectators overestimated effort, with only occasional flashes of skill from players amidst a cautious contest.
Charley Brown sold about twenty tons of hay in the stack for 842 dollars at the Fouchek sale near Riverside on Tuesday. A half stack brought 115 dollars, oats sold for 80 cents, corn at 1.50, and spring calves averaged 50 dollars per head. Horses also sold well with rising prices as demand grows.
Iowa State College extension agents lead demonstrations in 35 counties to curb soil erosion. The program highlights proven practices to protect fields, prevent ditching, and reduce loss of cropland as one cubic mile of soil erodes from U.S. farms yearly.
The Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry reports progress in developing better seed stocks for Irish potatoes. He notes that many seed stocks carry disease and yield less than premier sources abroad. Seed-improvement work spans most major potato states with routine inspections to remove diseased plants.
Advertises today’s prices for butter ducks geese turkeys and hides with per pound or each rates. Offers general truck ing for two months to provide steady work and promote moving services including poultry coop sales and buyback of furs and poultry delivered for premium.
Fred Pingrey of Carroll county sold two loads of sheep at Omaha for 15.75 and 15.25 dollars per load. The last load weighed 82 pounds per animal with 216 sheep. He bought them three months earlier at 57 pounds for 10 dollars each. He also shipped neighbor Albert Carpenter’s hogs averaging 265 pounds for 13.65 dollars.
A wartime vignette lampoons money and drinking culture as a doughboy, an Englishman, and a Scot toast cigarettes with large notes. The piece mocks profligate wealth, social climbing, and the temperance era by turning John Barleycorn into a social force and a satire of doctors, looms of prohibition, and flirtations.
An advertisement claims catarrhal deafness results from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured locally. It asserts a constitutional treatment by Hall's Catarrh Medicine, offering one hundred dollars for any cure not achieved, with Circulation free and drugs sold by all druggists.
Elmer Mason of Mason Transfer and Storage announces a new distribution contract with Samson Truck and Tractor. The deal follows success with Hart-Parr tractors and adds Sampson trucks for Washington county. First shipments arrive this month with frequent deliveries planned through the season.
A Coburn Kentucky druggist, J B Jones, states he has used Chamberlains Cough Remedy in his family for seven years and regards it as the best cough medicine he has known. Lemmon's Drug Store and druggists everywhere advertise the remedy.
A Baltimore American note compares ancient wisdom with a New York City election report stating women and in many cases their dogs accompanied them to polling booths. The editor suggests nothing is new under the sun.
County board of supervisors conducted the annual inventory at the county home. Property listed includes livestock, farm implements, produce, and furnishings totaling $14,605.80 with detailed values for horses, cattle, hogs, chickens, fruit, vegetables, canned goods, lard, farm machinery, hay, straw, and corn. Steward F. C. Beatty noted the premises in splendid condition.
Waterloo reports that Jim Thornton known as the king of tramps did not make it to Waterloo as planned. The brief note confirms he did not go there after all.
After a Cedar Rapids social worker arranged a return to Ottumwa, Jimmy boarded a train but slipped away between here and Cedar Rapids. Judge Williams noted the escape while considering a sentence, and records show Jimmy had previous detentions in Wapello county home Mt. Pleasant asylum and an Illinois penitentiary.
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