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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1922
Page
2
Chicago receipts and market activity for cattle hogs and sheep with arrivals, holding, and price ranges. Estimates include hogs 25 000 receipts and cattle 13 000 with market mostly lower and values shown for weights and classes. Grain markets list May wheat bids and cash wheat prices with regional quotes for corn oats and basis figures.
A University of Iowa party of scientists will visit Polynesian islands next summer to gather material for laboratories and museums. The team will include zoologist C. C. Nutting, botanist R. B. Wylie, geologist A. Thomas, entomologist and ornithologist Dayton Stoner, and Waldo Glock the meteorologist and photographer.
The remark critiques over-production and worker choices as undermining the appeal of simple commodities. It suggests a tension between preferred work and market value, noting home-run style profits as a flawed standard in broader economic behavior.
Federal Judge Martin Wade of Iowa City will speak at the University of Iowa midwinter convocation on January 31. More than 80 degrees and certificates will be awarded by the faculty, with commissions to about 90 members of the advanced course in military science and tactics.
The text emphasizes sharing knowledge and time to enrich both giver and recipient. It extols enduring adversity and prosperity, adapting to conditions, and serving others unstintingly without selfish motives.
Journal reports Iowa State College Farmers Week will include a vaccination school run by the state animal health commission. Intensive lectures and demonstrations focus on disease prevention and hog vaccination with an exam at the end. In January a similar session trained 600 farmers statewide.
Dr. William J. Hutchins of Berea College told Chicago club members that Breathitt County Kentucky earned the label for loyalty as the war approached every man and boy volunteered for service. He traced the mountain whites of Kentucky and Tennessee and urged education to empower them as future builders of the South.
In Mt. Clemens Michigan on January 25 about 2000 fans attended the opening of the winter racing meet. The track was in good shape with a solid ice coating and good times posted in all three events. Lolita won the 2:23 trot, Toney the Hero captured the 2:16 pace, and Elverso won the 2:30 pace in straight heats.
Secretary Weeks submits Henry Ford's proposal for purchase and lease of the Muscle Shoals nitrate and power properties in contract form. Once Ford signs and returns it, Weeks will immediately present the contract to Congress for a final decision.
More than a hundred families forced from homes by the Tennessee river flood waters. The river rose through the night to a crest forecast between 36 and 37 feet, with officials expecting the crest to reach Chattanooga during the day.
Fire in the furnace room of the Gladstone theater destroyed the building and caused about 18 000 dollars in damage. The Western Union Telegraph Company office and the Morning Press branch office were also destroyed.
New York reports that hopes for recovery of banker and writer A Barton Hepburn were abandoned after injuries from a Fifth Avenue bus. Hepburn, twenty five years old, had been hospitalized following the accident.
A long column lists upcoming closing out sales and public sales across Iowa towns including Washington Keota Kalona Crawfordsville and Columbus Junction. Buyers can note dates from January 26 through February 24 featuring Duroc Poland China and Jersey stock plus percheron horses with multiple farm companies and individuals hosting events.
Ottawa, capital of the Dominion of Canada, derives its name from the Ottawa River named after a nation of Algonquin origin. The Algonquin word avawa meaning to trade or buy and sell described the tribe famed for trading corn meal, furs, and tobacco.
The excerpt defines fossil resin as a material from conifer exudation. It describes drops and globular masses resembling pine resin, with cotton-like association to fossil woods. It notes color brownish yellow, variable shade, often clouded by stress, transparent, brittle, and burning with dense fumes.
Bill Steedum notes he skips articles on Brain Cells and How to Invest Your Spare Dollars hurrying past both topics like usual in the Withington News Journal.
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