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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1922
Page
2
Daily livestock market notes from Chicago July 5 and 6 show estimated receipts for hogs 24 009 rising to 25 000, cattle 13 060 then 13 000, and sheep 7 000. Prices span hogs 9 25 to 10 86, cattle 7 25 to 9 80, and sheep 7 00 to 13 75 with steady to higher trends on better grades and mixed hogs, sows, calves, and feeder lots.
A French investigator reported in Journal de Physique that the average man uses energy to speak for an hour sufficient to lift a two-pound weight forty inches each minute, while the female voice needs far less power, claiming women can talk four times as long for the same energy.
The tired fisherman carries a long string of fish into town hoping to avoid questions about where they were bought. He fears the inevitable inquiry and would prefer to confront the sellers with a headlong display instead.
The quote urges starting to write early to capture novelty before it fades. It stresses that tiny peculiarities create vivid reader impressions and should be recorded even if seemingly trifling. Hawthorne highlights value of republishing journal minutiae for graphic power.
A reflection on dialogue noting few truly reasonable speakers. The text laments self centered talk and attentiveness that hides distraction and impatience. It argues patient listening and precise answering are essential to pleasing and convincing others, citing Foucault as framing authority.
Genoa la Superba is famed for Balilla Mazzini and Columbus monuments. Balilla, aged fifteen, sparked a revolt with a stone and is honored by a fountain statue in a city square. Mazzini stands as a marble statue and Columbus leans on an anchor with an Indian maiden at his feet.
Conineshy Dawson recounts a medieval Cracow tale of a trumpet guardian struck by an arrow. His dying blast warned the city, the broken call echoing as a timeless vigil. The legend links a trumpet's final note to perpetual vigilance over Cracow.
Louisa County Farm Bureau reports five new poultry record farms established in Elm Grove and Port Louisa townships and Jefferson township. Hens are leg-banded for breeding pens, with monthly egg production records to assess flock performance. Culling demonstrations set for July, with expert from Ames to lead sessions.
Some women are content to envy others success while others pursue it themselves, turning ambition into accomplishment and changing perceptions of what women can achieve.
A compact meditation on poetry linking inner vision to higher truth. The text argues poetry transposes reality into a sphere of wiser understanding through revelation and craft.
Berlin reports police believe the attack on Maximilian Harden editor of Die Zukunft stemmed from an anti semitic plot exposed in Hamburg last week. Police found a list of prominent German Jews marked for assassination led by Dr Walter Rathenau once foreign secretary. Harden was struck by a loaded blackjack and taken to hospital in stable but serious condition.
Detectives arrested Charles Heines Edward Bryce and Charles Lattbert on suspicion of taking part in the October 24 mail robbery that yielded about 1.5 million dollars in registered mail. They were turned over to postal authorities for investigation and face robbery charges. The bandits fled in a high powered car after forcing Frank Havernack to drive to a secluded area to loot the cargo. The Chase National Bank was among the major losers with hundreds of thousands in bonds taken.
Investigations focus on three parties after the Winslow Junction wreck that killed six and wounded several. Rumors name Walter Westcott the engineer who ignored a danger signal and John De Wait the tower signal man who misrouted the flyer as empties were sent without warning. Blame also shifts toward Camden dispatchers office for dispatching the empties.
Hankow July 4 The Japanese garrison stationed here departed down the Yangtze river for Japan in compliance with Japan’s decision to withdraw troops from the interior of China.
Feris Keyes, a railroad fireman, shot and killed his wife in their Tuscumbia residence, reportedly after mistaking her for a burglar. The incident occurred July 4 near Sheffield, Alu.
A concise reflection from the Aitchison Globe noting that realizing our limits in knowledge is itself a form of understanding. The piece emphasizes humility and ongoing inquiry as central to progress.
Louis James, eighteen, swung on a rope ladder from a plane at 800 feet as his stunt went wrong. His body fell near his fiancée Clara Trias Tian and was mangled in the propeller of a second aircraft, as onlookers watched in shock. The two pilots landed safely.
In Hammond Indiana a raid by twelve enforcement agents led by A R Herris swooped on West Hammond collecting thirty barrels of beer and about thirty gallons of alleged whiskey from four saloons on Warania street. Arrested were proprietors Joseph Jersyk Mastin Strug Benjamin Kalezik Albert Skmvertz and others. A local woman accused her husband of spending his earnings on liquor.
A wild locomotive with one shroud ran down a group of news lesters unloading papers from a refinery car in Asbury Park New Jersey. Three men died and several others were injured in the accident.
Mrs Mary Louise Colt wife of US Senator LaBaron B Colt died at Linden Place Heistol after a brief illness. Born in Milwaukee seventy years ago she married Colt in Chicago in 1873. Daughter of Guy Carleton she descended from a New England family on her mother’s side. During World War I she chaired the Navy league.
Seventeen of twenty nine Greeks convicted in the death of Sheriff Lashbrook of Schuyler county were sent to Joliet penitentiary by Judge Fred Wolfe. Ten others were granted new trials on their own recognizance, two cases were dismissed, and the report from Washington notes Mexican bandit activity near Tampico with a consular dispatch detailing the killing of Mrs. Thomas Cheney near Cho Coy.
About 225 grain elevator workers in Kansas City Missouri quit work on July 4 after wage increase refusals and a demand for a seniority rule. The strike involved 11 grain elevators as part of the action.
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