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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1920
Page
2
Cold with temperatures well below normal in the first half of the week for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Fair weather expected, with some moderation in the second half and occasional snow.
Estimated receipts today 47,000 hogs and 19,000 cattle with holdovers. Market slow to mostly strong, hogs up to around 25 cents, best calves and beef steers at top prices. Lambs and sheep show gains with feeder lambs and stockers listed. official Saturday totals include hogs 10,319 receipts 5,637 shipments, cattle 2,436 receipts 1,291 shipments, sheep 2,841 receipts 227 shipments.
Journal lists numerous farm closing out sales and public sales across multiple Iowa locations from Jan 27 to Feb 27, featuring buyers and sellers such as Forner Ainsworth Yoder Kalona Hanlon Boshart Washington and others. It also includes 1919 1920 market analysis with projections for hogs cattle wheat and oats and notes Argentine export outlook.
Local notice lists prices for furs hides pelts and leather items per pound or each including butter fat hens ducks geese turkeys and roosters. It notes high prices for raw furs and that three trucks have been turned over to moving staff with available quotes on hauling services.
Readers are invited to send farm items to the Journal office by mail or telephone. News of livestock shipments public sale prices or any special farm activity is welcome for publication in this section.
The Ames experiment farm tracked Reid's Yellow Dent strains from twenty five breeders in central Iowa. In 1919 William Steenwyk of Mitchellville led with 76.8 bushels per acre, while the lowest in the test produced 51. The top nine include Steenwyk, McCullough, Hiatt, Trullinger, Cockerill, Naylor, Rolep, Wahl, and Swirdell, indicating high yielding strains suited to rich land and late seasons.
The piece notes 1919 20 corn receipts remain large with a 1 50 cash price, U S exports lagging by 25 30 percent. Chicago stocks under one million and a visible small 3 500 may not improve before February 16. Grain reserves near one billion bushels. long distance sentiment bullish but revival unlikely this winter.
The Greater Clarinda club in Iowa aims to grow from 140 members to 1000 by the club year end in April. The group seeks a broad community base including merchants, salespeople, employers, employees, townspeople and farmers. A Royal Order of Inda Clar was formed inside the club to manage amusement features and has energized members.
The club aims to enlarge its present quarters which hold business offices and social facilities of a chamber of commerce. A push is underway to attract many farmers to make the body truly representative, with membership drives conducted by members only.
Henry Wiler, 60, fell asleep in a barber chair at Clyde Lewis shop and remained unconscious for nearly three hours despite whistles, massage, and shouting. A physician and helpers finally woke him hours later with no memory of the ordeal. He later learned a prior injury from a cement pile accident at the teachers college may relate to the nap.
Des Moines reports the state dairy and food inspection bureau says patent medicines abound for the booze artist. E L Redfern warns that tonics like Bing Bang's Tonic for Torpid Livers are promoted with alcoholic content as low as 15 percent.
At the state house agents of the dairy and food inspector tested medicines in stock for alcohol levels. The chemist joked about remedies containing 18 to 20 percent alcohol and claimed they could cure ailments while admitting the booze content.
A speaker, Mr Redfern, notes there is not enough cascara in medical cocktails to harm a person, claiming it would keep persistent medicine users content. He adds a line about preferring not to drink as much of these cocktails as others.
Farmers Union Local 270 calls members to elect officers for the next year. The meeting will be at John Griffith school on Wednesday January 28 1920. By order of members from the January 21 1920 meeting.
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