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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1919
Page
2
Chicago market report shows hog receipts 67 000 with 9 414 carried over. cattle and sheep receipts around 17 000 and 22 000. First sales weak to 10 lower than yesterday. beef cattle steady to 15 higher for select lines. Overall market slow, dull with limited demand and varied price ranges across hogs cattle and lambs.
Property listing notes furnished housing from E W Wagner & Co in Iowa City with J B Hunt as manager and contact phone 726 for inquiries and arrangements.
A reflective aphorism links sowing pennies to a penny crop and dollars to a dollar crop, suggesting universal cause and effect in earnings and outcomes.
Readable fragments show a rural trade notice listing butter eggs poultry cream hides and rabbits with price indicators around minus twenty cents. No clear event or date is present.
James Knotek ships a load of 807 pound barrows as Washington county hog raisers push breeding stock sales. The Harry Hain sale near Wellston draws a large crowd with strong prices for cattle and corn, while Glenn Hayes Hampshire sale at the Motor Inn is anticipated with broad local support for home breeders. Barberry eradication drives 25 000 plants removal by Madison Park group amid statewide concern over future costs.
The 1918 harvest faced difficulties but large acreages were planted by American farmers. The Department of Agriculture details ongoing efforts to secure and mobilize farm labor, coordinating with the War Labor Policies Board and aiding military classifications. Notably Kansas supplied over 45,000 workers for wheat, Texas saved two counties' potatoes with local business support, and Illinois registered 35,000 harvest workers.
Alex Marbourg has been engaged by the Farmers Unions around Washington to handle stock for the local Unions. He will devote his time exclusively to stock handling. Telephone to Mr Marbourg for further information. Two carloads of hogs went to Chicago Saturday night and one on Monday morning. Frank Horn sold a carload of hogs Monday morning for $17.90.
Nine of the twelve infested areas in Wisconsin have been cleared of the common barberry, the ornamental shrub that harbors black rust of wheat and other small grains. Officials expect the state to be infection free within a few years. Early settlers in Wisconsin.
No hunting allowed on farms occupied by Earle Libe Frank Libe John Libe Helwick and Benn Roy Schiebel D H McLaughlin and Henry Doig. The notice lists these landowners under a posted hunting prohibition.
Wide interest in a pure bred calf show at Iowa College livestock pavilion features 109 head of fattened heifer calves exhibited by Story County youths. Many girls participate alongside boys, showcasing beef production knowledge.
A Quincy girl after a late dance could not be awakened for work at 3 a.m. Repeated calls and alarm clock failed until "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played, prompting her to respond. The report appears in the Boston Globe.
The terms commodore and commander derive from the Spanish comendador, a knight or monastery superior, with parallels in French commandeur and Italian comandatore. Commandant comes from medieval Latin commandator meaning a commander, and mandare meaning to command.
O'Brien meets Flanagan and jokes about a bump on the forehead as a clever remark about knowledge. Flanagan responds that it is not a bump of knowledge but a bump of ignorance about boxing.
A short column urges readers to delay judgment when actions seem unreasonable, noting that explanations often emerge with time. It counsels patience and cautious interpretation before forming opinions.
A brief note honors bravery in pursuing a worthy cause, praising perseverance and self sacrifice for a moral aim. It stresses courage over ease and the value of steadfast commitment to right action.
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